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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen with the SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service. The service is establishing an Intensive Support Day Service to prevent children & young people from being admitted to TIER 4 settings and out of region.
We are looking for a Senior Specialist Nurse to join the exciting new branch of the well-established SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service in North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We appreciate that eating disorders can be a rewarding and challenging field to work in, even for those with experience. Therefore, as well as excellent supervision and reflective practice sessions, we provide the opportunity to develop skills through joint working, access to internal training, CPD, and external training courses. As an expanding service, there is opportunity for progression within the team and input into service development.
We recognise that working within the NHS can be highly pressurised, and there is a priority within the team to ensure that team members are supported to have a good work/life balance with flexibility around family-friendly hours where possible.
Main duties of the job
The role will require working with children and young people diagnosed with Eating Disorders and will support running an Intensive Day Programme to help CYP remain at home in the community.
The day programme will offer patients meal support, physical health monitoring, therapy, groups, and parent support throughout the week to assist young people in weight restoration and recovery in the community.
Main Duties will include:
* Being part of the senior leadership to support management of the enhanced intensive support programme.
* Working within a nursing team caring for young people with eating disorders.
* Collaborating as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Establishing the role within the multi-disciplinary team.
* Assisting with efficient and effective nursing care.
* Leading the nursing team, supporting decision-making, and showing accountability for junior members of the team.
* Ensuring safe evidence-based clinical practice and demonstrating clinical expertise, with delegated responsibility for the delivery of high-quality patient care.
* Conducting risk assessments alongside the use of MEED guidelines.
* Working alongside lead clinicians to support the evidence-based treatment of FT-AN.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Experience working with CYP in Mental Health.
* Experience with Eating Disorders.
* Experience working with MDT and Multi-agencies.
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long-term/chronic conditions, and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations, and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that's a job share, part-time hours, or another flexible pattern.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic. We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.
Applicant requirements
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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