The Community Eating Disorders Service Intensive Pathway for Children and Young People is expanding to increase access to community-based treatments for families across Newham, Tower Hamlets, and City & Hackney. The aim of this service is to support young people close to home to improve their quality of life, feel empowered to manage their illness, resume control over eating, and be provided with an alternative to admission.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Physical health monitoring of young people on the CEDS Intensive Pathway, providing guidance and advice for families on how to respond to physical concerns at home.
2. Provide meal support to young people and families at home, in clinic, and in hospital – modelling appropriate support for parents with time to evaluate the process at each visit.
3. Provide psychosocial interventions focused on clinically indicated interventions e.g. distress tolerance, emotion regulation using DBT techniques, basic CBT, motivational exercises, positive behavior support for young people with learning disabilities, psycho-education, distraction activities, supporting symptom management, and problem-solving skills.
4. Provide NG feeding (when not requiring restraint) in the community.
5. Support the development and delivery of phlebotomy services in the community.
6. Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care plans in relation to physical health, as part of the wider CEDS care plan for the patient.
7. Manage challenging/distressing/sensitive situations and patient behaviour in a calm and safe manner, and use therapeutic nursing skills to engage with the patient/family throughout these situations.
8. Support paediatric nurses in the Core CEDS team through physical health assessments, feeding back findings, and following up on clinical investigations (e.g. blood tests, ECGs, ultrasound, DEXA scans).
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
This advert closes on Friday 17 Jan 2025.
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