Specialist Eating Disorders Outpatient/Community Nurse

Job summary

This is a newly established post providing planned community based treatments to clients. The post holder will provide nursing input into the specialist eating disorders service, acting as care co-ordinator and implementing home treatment support for a defined caseload of clients. The post holder will manage clients with severe eating disorders who are difficult to engage in treatment, have complex care needs.

The post holder will predominantly work with the outpatient nurses and consultants to provide monitoring and support to severely unwell patients. S/he may also contribute to the pathway for clients with severe and enduring eating disorders and act as a link worker for patients who are making the transition from CAMHS to adult services. The post holder will carry out specialist nursing assessments, plan and implement care, respond appropriately to crises and maintain associated records.

The post holder will have responsibility for the day to day delivery of the service to clients on their caseload and their families and carers via a range of evidence based interventions.

Main duties of the job

• Communicate with both internal and external stakeholders, such as service users, carers, other teams, third sector and voluntary organisations.
• Communicate effectively across a wide variety of settings, using tact and diplomacy in response to situations that may be complex and sensitive and may have resulted from conflict.
• Providing advice and use their initiative and follow organisational procedures in routine and crisis situations.
• Apply communication skills which take account of communication needs and differences, in order to plan, deliver and evaluate care.
• Apply enhanced communication skills both oral and written to communicate information within records and reports. This may also include the need to respond to and offer reassurance to questions and concerns from a variety of groups, such as service users, carers and other staff/teams.

• Comply with and implement local and Trust policies and procedures regarding appropriate communication.
• Be required to lead client reviews within the multi-disciplinary team and act as an advocate for service users.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• 12-month preceptorship
• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• flexible working opportunities
• relocation packages
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.