Job summary
This post is a great development opportunity for a Band 4 Return to Practice Nurse looking to gain experience and insight into working with adults with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to practice a full range of specialist nursing skills in mental and physical health while attending a return to practice nursing course through Angla Ruskin University one day a week.
The length of the return to practice course will depend on previous experience and assessed competencies. The candidate will be a supernumerary member of the team while engaged on the return to practice course. Following the completion of the course the practitioner will transition to a band 5 nursing role on S3.
Main duties of the job
- Carry out clinical observations on patients, recognising, recording, and reporting abnormalities and changes in patients' condition to the Registered Practitioner.
- Assist in planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual programmes of care for patients.
- Assist in ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met
- Participating in meal preparation.
- Providing meal supervision and post meal observations.
- Undertake phlebotomy training and training in conducting ECG
- Participate in the process of involving relatives/carers in the provision of patient care.
- Utilise early warning score indicators in eating disorders (Marsi MEWS) to recognise any patient deterioration/sudden change in condition, reporting immediately to a Registered Practitioner.
- Prepare and undertake interventions consistent with evidenced based practice, transferring and applying knowledge and skills to meet patients' needs.
- Participating in multi-disciplinary team meetings and CPA meetings
- Act in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times.
- Contribute to the prevention and control of infection in line with Trust guidelines.
- Ensure that essential information on the patients' condition and progress is recorded in accordance with Trust guidelines.
- Understand the need to maintain and respect patient confidentiality.
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- The Return to Practice Nurse will be undertaking a training programme within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Anglia Ruskin University. A placement within an agreed clinical area will be undertaken as part of the course. A minimum of 150 hours will be spent in clinical practice.
- The Return to Practice Nurse will assist in the overall implementation and evaluation of care as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
- The Return to Practice Nurse is expected to plan, implement, deliver, and maintain high standards of care.
- The Return to Practice Nurse will be skilled in taking appropriate action(s) to achieve the planned outcome.
- The Return to Practice Nurse is expected to work under supervision across a 24-hour service within an agreed clinical environment.
- The Return to Practice Nurse will be expected to practice in accordance with Trust policies, guidelines, standards, and statutory requirements and operate within defined competency boundaries.
- It is required that Return to Practice Nurses will commit to undertake the formal education of the course and successfully complete all components of the training programme within the contract period.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- The Return to Practice Nurse will be undertaking a training programme within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Anglia Ruskin University. A placement within an agreed clinical area will be undertaken as part of the course. A minimum of 150 hours will be spent in clinical practice.
- The Return to Practice Nurse will assist in the overall implementation and evaluation of care as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
- The Return to Practice Nurse is expected to plan, implement, deliver, and maintain high standards of care.
- The Return to Practice Nurse will be skilled in taking appropriate action(s) to achieve the planned outcome.
- The Return to Practice Nurse is expected to work under supervision across a 24-hour service within an agreed clinical environment.
- The Return to Practice Nurse will be expected to practice in accordance with Trust policies, guidelines, standards, and statutory requirements and operate within defined competency boundaries.
- It is required that Return to Practice Nurses will commit to undertake the formal education of the course and successfully complete all components of the training programme within the contract period.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oPrevious registration with the NMC.
Desirable
- oEvidence of post-registration professional development
Experinece
Essential
- oExperience of working within a hospital healthcare setting, community team or in the private sector delivering personal and clinical care.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- oInsight into roles and responsibilities of the post.
- oWillingness to learn and develop their role.
Physical requirements
Essential
- oCaring, compassionate and motivated.
- oReliable and trustworthy, interpersonal skills and confident and enthusiastic.
- oCommitment to complete the training programme.
Other
Essential
- oPositive approach to older people.
- oRecognise people's right to privacy and dignity,
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oPrevious registration with the NMC.
Desirable
- oEvidence of post-registration professional development
Experinece
Essential
- oExperience of working within a hospital healthcare setting, community team or in the private sector delivering personal and clinical care.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- oInsight into roles and responsibilities of the post.
- oWillingness to learn and develop their role.
Physical requirements
Essential
- oCaring, compassionate and motivated.
- oReliable and trustworthy, interpersonal skills and confident and enthusiastic.
- oCommitment to complete the training programme.
Other
Essential
- oPositive approach to older people.
- oRecognise people's right to privacy and dignity,
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
