Clinical Specialist Eating Disorders Nurse

Job summary

• To provide expert clinical nursing care (directly or indirectly with patients.
• To adopt a lead role in the provision of evidence-based interventions in eating disorders across the age range.
• To provide professional leadership and consultancy.
• To provide education, training and development in the field of expertise to other staff.
• To contribute to practice and service development and evaluation.
• To lead and contribute to audit and research.

Main duties of the job

• To work between Coventry and Warwickshire child and adolescent mental health eating disorders service and acute paediatric services to understand and meet the needs of children and young people with an eating disorder.
• To provide specialist care to children and young people with an eating disorder within a paediatric setting and work with professionals to monitor the physical risks and provide robust assessments and management plans.
• Manage the needs of multiple patients within a paediatric setting, aiming to support the paediatric team to stabilise and discharge patients in a timely manner.
• To provide expertise and specialist advice, supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals delivering evidence-based interventions and to contribute directly to patients' assessment, treatment, review and discharge.
• Make decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others, and to advise and support colleagues where standard protocols do not apply.
• Draw on advanced knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest order, some of which are likely to be highly specialist, acquired only after lengthy training, supervision and practice.
• Complete advanced history taking, and physical examinations as required with patient group.
• Regularly undertake clinical supervision for specialist practice area.

About us

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), 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:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• a set Eating Disorders base with clinical space to see patients and be amongst colleagues
• 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 groups

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.