Job overview
Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse with leadership experience, looking to join a new function?
Hospital at Home Eating Disorders is an exciting service developed in collaboration with the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The Hospital at Home team supports young people with eating disorders who meet the threshold for inpatient care. In some cases, admission will be prevented and in others, young people will be stepped down to this model following a short inpatient admission. Hospital at Home maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care. This is a work from home position.
Main duties of the job
The responsibilities include, but are not are not limited to:
1. To be responsible for the co-ordination and management of the clinical team in providing a safe, structured and therapeutic environment for young people and their families.
2. In conjunction with service manager, senior modern matron / modern matron and other clinical leads, the post holder is expected to contribute to the development of the eating disorder service provision across the Trust.
3. To take the lead in ensuring effective joint working with statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure responsive and appropriate service delivery to users and carers.
4. Provide professional links with educational agencies such as UWE and Oxford Brookes.
5. To carry out a mentoring role and training/teaching sessions when required.
6. To have an ability to work with assessed needs embracing the wishes of young people with eating disorders.
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:
7. Excellent opportunities for career progression
8. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
9. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
10. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
11. Competitive pension scheme
12. Lease car scheme
13. Cycle to work scheme
14. Employee Assistance Programme
15. Mental Health First Aiders
16. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
17. 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.
We welcome prospective candidates to contact us to discuss the role and potentially arrange a site visit prior to interview.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
18. NMC RN Registration
Desirable criteria
19. Relevant post- graduate training
20. Masters level study or evidence of working towards this
21. Qualification in leadership
Knowledge
Essential criteria
22. Evidence of ongoing development and education children and adolescents with a wide range of mental health difficulties
23. Commitment to personal and professional development
24. Skills in reflection
25. Experience in management and clinical supervision
26. Excellent IT skills with experience using Microsoft software packages
Desirable criteria
27. Experience using Teams
Experience
Essential criteria
28. Range of clinical experience
29. Participation in service improvement projects
30. Experience in discharge planning
31. Evidence of working with multi-disciplinary teams and other professionals
32. Experience of working with complex patients
33. Robust risk management skills
34. Experience in completing comprehensive assessments
35. Excellent communication skills
36. Evidence of problem solving skills
37. Supervisory and management skills
38. Evidence of leadership skills
Desirable criteria
39. Experience leading service improvement projects
40. Community Experience
41. Inpatient experience
42. Change management skills
43. Participation in research
44. Experience working with an eating disorder service
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
45. Ability to work well under pressure
46. Awareness and acceptance of the rights and needs of service users and staff.
47. Ability to seek and accept support
48. Ability to travel to team away days and training in Swindon and Oxford
49. Willing to work virtually across a geographic footprint
Desirable criteria
50. Experience managing a team
51. Full UK driving license with car available for work.
52. 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.
53. 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.
54. 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.
55. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
56. 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.
57. 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.
58. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
59. 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