Job overview
Are you an experienced Nurse who would relish the opportunity to be part of specialist service where you will develop your knowledge and skills in the field of eating disorders?
A nurse position has arisen at our thriving specialist adult eating disorder inpatient service in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Our team is committed to delivering safe and innovative care. We have a reputation for excellence, providing a stepped model of treatment tailored to individual patient needs working within the recovery framework.
We are a multidisciplinary team with a dispersed leadership model ensuring that nursing is at the core of patient care. We offer a comprehensive supervision and preceptorship programme for trained nurses. There are opportunities to learn CBTe and DBT based skills, ensuring that nursing professional development is at the forefront of evidence based practice.
You will have the opportunity to undertake training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-ED) as well as co-facilitating groups that you have an interest in, such as DBT or creative art. There will be regular support groups and teaching sessions on a wide range of topics to enhance your knowledge and experience.
We also understand how important work life balance is and the difference that being part of an organisation that supports this makes to our staff.
Please note previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
In this role, your main duties will include the following:
1. Nurse in charge role on shift, ensuring the safe and effective running of the shift on an inpatient unit
2. Primary and Secondary nurse role on care teams for patients, offering a key worker role and regular carer liaison
3. Opportunity to participate in facilitating the therapeutic group programme
4. Administering medication
5. Supporting patients at snack and meal times each day
6. Supporting and delivering Naso Gastric (NG) tube feeding (training provided)
7. Phlebotomy (training provided)
8. Supervisor role for support workers / students
9. Working earlies, lates (or long day) and night shifts, on a 24 hours / 365 days inpatient service
10. Liaising with professionals from community teams, other inpatient services including general hospital
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
11. Excellent opportunities for career progression
12. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
13. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
14. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
15. Competitive pension scheme
16. Lease car scheme
17. Cycle to work scheme
18. Employee Assistance Programme
19. Mental Health First Aiders
20. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
21. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
22. RMN
23. NMC Registered
Experience
Essential criteria
24. Experience of working in a mental health setting
Desirable criteria
25. Experience of working with individuals with an Eating Disorder
Skills
Essential criteria
26. Knowledge of Eating Disorder Treatments
27. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
28. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
29. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
30. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
31. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
32. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
33. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
34. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing