Nurse Lead CAMHS Eating Disorders Oxfordshire
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join our CAMHS Community Eating Disorder Service, either at a Lead Nurse level or someone looking for career progression into this role. If you have post-training experience in delivering evidence-based interventions for eating disorders, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Location: Raglan House, Cowley (with work across other trust sites and community venues)Service Overview: Our service provides a stepped-care model tailored to the needs of children, young people, and their families, offering support for those with a primary diagnosis of eating disorders and those with co-occurring mental health conditions.
We offer a range of evidence-based treatments for eating disorders within the community setting.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Provide expert clinical nursing care, directly or indirectly, for a minimum of 60% of your role.
- Take a lead role in the provision of evidence-based interventions for eating disorders across all age groups.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality care for children, young people, and families.
If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and young people with eating disorders and have the skills to deliver expert care, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Provide expert nursing care to patients on their caseload. Providing skilled assessment, treatment, supervision and consultation as part of the Eating Disorder service provision within Oxfordshire.
To lead on the oversight and delivery of both training and clinical supervision to the nursing workforce.
Take a lead on developing and maintaining safe co-working processes and transitions within physical health settings, such as the JR, Horton and Royal Berkshire hospitals.
Lead on supporting the development of the post 16 treatment pathway, including transition to adult Eating Disorder Services.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide 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:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount
- Pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Nurse lead post has a significant role within the clinical leadership team and contributing to the delivery of a high quality, evidence based service. The role will include contributing to the following domains;- Leadership ad Consultancy
- Education, training, supervision and development of the team
- leading on service development projects
- leading on research and audits
- Ensuring a team culture of learning from complaints, feedback and incidents. I Want Great Care
- Work with the other Nurse lead posts across Oxon CAMHS to deliver a collaborative nurse leadership model
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse, with current registration
- Educated to degree level
- Evidence of post graduate studies Advanced clinical skills in the relevant speciality
- Post graduate training in evidence-based interventions for eating disorders across the age range.(CBT-E, CBT-T,MFT)
- Educated to MSc level
- Leadership training/qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Post training experience of delivering Eating Disorders evidence-based interventions.
- Prior involvement in audit and research
- Evidence of involvement in innovative practice, QI projects and service development projects.
- Evidence of contribution to policy, protocols and patient care pathway development
- Experience of publishing clinically driven research in a relevant area.
Skills
Essential criteria- Public speaking competence, with evidence of presentation at strategic, national/international level
- Interest in workforce well-being.
- 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.
- 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.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- 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