Main area: Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (08.15-16.15 Monday - Friday)
Job ref: 367-SS-9142
Employer: Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Acorn Day Unit, Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6HG
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata (5% HCAS included)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered, please take part in our online values questionnaire. When you finish, you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Are you interested in being part of an innovative service designed to help people with eating disorders recover in the community? Do you have a passion for supporting recovery and contributing to service development? If so, we want to hear from you!
We are looking for an outstanding Nurse to work within the Acorn Day Unit Team with adults with moderate to severe eating disorders. The post holder must have a qualification in nursing, be registered with NMC, and ideally have significant mental health experience.
The Acorn Day Unit provides an intensive day therapy programme to those under the care of the Community Eating Disorder Service (CEDS) to give them the opportunity to recover without the need for admission to an eating disorder unit. You will also be working closely with the wider CEDS to provide additional support to people with eating disorders.
Experience of working with people with eating disorders is desirable, but your personality and ability to use your clinical skills proactively is also important.
We strongly uphold Trust values and have an ethos of demonstrating these values to people using our service and each other. We are looking for someone who shares this value base.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of the Acorn Day Unit Team, working collaboratively with the Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Leader, Lead Occupational Therapist, Specialist Dietician, and two Senior Health-care assistants, taking a whole team approach to support adults with an eating disorder on their recovery journey.
You will take the lead in medical monitoring of individuals under the team, which will involve liaison with the Community Eating Disorder Service professionals, GPs, and any other professionals involved. You will provide guidance to non-medically trained colleagues on symptoms/signs of physical risk under the guidance of the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
You will contribute to care planning formulation, interventions, reviews, and discharge meetings. You may be required to guide the Senior Health-care assistants and support the day-to-day running of the team in the absence of the team leads.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to the evaluation and development of the service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work with people with moderate to severe eating disorders to prevent hospital admission or facilitate early discharge in collaboration with all members of the Acorn Day Unit team, including assessment of those referred to the service, care planning formulation, attendance at professional meetings, identifying and delivering interventions, reviewing support, and participating in discharge planning meetings.
Provide nursing care in a person-centred way that promotes and facilitates the positive health and well-being of people with eating disorders.
Be responsible for providing specialist nursing care for people with moderate to severe eating disorders under the care of the team, ensuring that interventions follow NICE guidelines for eating disorders and meet Medical Emergency in Eating Disorders (MEED) guidance.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
* RMN or DipHE in Mental Health OR
* RGN/RNLD/RM/RSCN or DipHE in nursing with experience or training in mental health interventions transferable to the eating disorders service work
* Current registration with NMC
* Post registration experience at Band 5
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Experience of working with people with eating disorders
* Experience of working in other clinical settings
* Mentorship training Community nursing experience
APTITUDE & SKILLS
* Ability to communicate effectively within a multiprofessional team
* Confidence to work autonomously, use own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations
* Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or reassuring skills are required
* Ability to deal with distressing circumstances and challenging behaviour
* Experience of risk assessment and management
* Ability to cope with an unpredictable work pattern and frequent interruptions
* Understanding of legal framework MHA, MCA, DoLS, safeguarding and social factors involved in care; supervision skills
* Specific clinical skills applicable (e.g., management of low weight anorexics, phlebotomy, CBTE, ECG)
* Implementing quality improvement initiatives
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements. Our staff rated us the 4th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported through a great development, wellbeing, and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful, and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organization regarding age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs, and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity, and human rights.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures, which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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