Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, motivated, and caring mental health nurse to join our nationally recognised and expanding Community Child & Adolescent Eating Disorder Service in Salisbury.
With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS in Salisbury and make a positive difference to children and young people’s life chances.
Our well-established service aims to deliver high standards of care to young people and their families, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and participation. You would ensure we are delivering outstanding services to the children and young people in the Salisbury catchment area, and you would be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team who offer assessment, treatment, and consultation either in the clinic base or out in the community.
The service is based in Salisbury and works with children and young people up to 18 years old who experience eating disorders.
Main duties of the job
If you are a motivated nurse with a passion and interest for working with young people experiencing an eating disorder, this is the role for you.
In this role you will provide specialist assessment, treatment and care review to patients and their families/carers who are open to the Salisbury CAMHS Eating Disorder Service. You will also take responsibility for managing urgent clinical calls, including risk, on a rotational basis.
You will have access to supervision and training from leading clinicians in the field. You will be offered in house training in a number of evidence-based interventions.
There will also be the opportunity for further training based on individual learning needs. We have good professional support in our service and regular professional regional meetings, including regular team safeguarding supervision.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles.
Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide 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”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
· Excellent opportunities for career progression
· Individual and Trust wide learning and development
· 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
· NHS Discount
· Pension scheme
· Lease car scheme
· Employee Assistance Programme
· Mental Health First Aiders
· Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
· Staff networking and support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are a friendly and welcoming team looking for a keen and enthusiastic practitioner who puts children and young people at the centre of what they do. We promote a culture of support and supervision and have good links with the other teams across Wiltshire CAMHS and ensure that there is regular opportunity for networking within our pathways.
We embody the importance of staff wellbeing in our practice, and this is why we are interested to get to know you as a person and hear what you would like from your job. We are also open to conversations about flexible working to support individuals work life balance.
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
Please see the attached job description for the full responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Qualified Mental Health Nurse.
2. Current NMC registration.
Desirable criteria
3. Pre-qualification training or experience in holistic assessments
4. Comprehensive physical health monitoring skills, including blood pressure and pulse recording and results interpretation.
5. Experience of working with young people
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Awareness/observation of assessments and treatments of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
7. Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course.
Desirable criteria
8. Experience of patients in mental health assessments and treatment
9. Experience of working with eating disorders.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
10. A positive approach to working with patients who have eating disorders
11. Ability to work as part of a team whilst autonomously showing initiative.
12. A motivation to work with patients experiencing an eating disorder
Desirable criteria
13. Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
14. Be interested in the use of participation forums and using these to develop care delivery and the service.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
21. 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