[ref. b47188322] Community Nurse Practitioner - Eating Disorders Service - NHS
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below.When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
It's a brilliant time to be joining adult eating disorders services as we continue to grow and develop as a service!
Are you a skilled mental health nurse wanting to work within an adult eating disorders service?
You will use your interpersonal and therapeutic skills to facilitate the service user’s recovery from this mental health condition, whilst monitoring the service user's physical health. It’s a specialism that is both rewarding and challenging.
If you are interested, have never worked within an eating disorders setting and want to develop yourself, have an informal chat with our fantastic team: call Diana Mongan or Tom Page on 01707 364006
If you have had previous experience of working with people with eating disorders, we would absolutely love to hear from you!
The Hertfordshire Community Eating Disorders Service is looking for a Community Nurse Practitioner to join the county-wide team. The post holder’s team base will be in Welwyn Garden City but there will be a responsibility for clinical work throughout the county.You are likely to have an area you primarily work in.
Here’s what our staff say about working in the team:
"Working in CEDS feels very much like being part of a family and we always have our service users wellbeing at the heart of what we do. Everybody really genuinely cares." (Emma, Senior Eating Disorders Clinician)
"I've enjoyed the team being so lovely and welcoming. I feel part of the family already!" Dan, Senior CBT therapist
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- have experience of working with people with eating disorders or other mental health conditions
- have the ability to use your clinical skills proactively
- offer specialist assessment and treatment interventions to our clients with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and atypical presentations and their families.
- be given the opportunity to undertake training to provide a range of psychological and psycho-social interventions specialising in either CBT-E, SSCM or MANTRA
- provide supportive community nursing
- closely monitor physical health of service users
- provide outreach work, psychoeducation and physical monitoring of service users
- have phlebotomy skills or be willing to be trained
- hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Refer a friend to work for the Trust and receive up to £500! (A payment of £250 will be made when the applicant commences employment with us and a further payment of £250 will be made once they hit 6 months continuous service with us, terms and conditions apply)
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will function as a lead professional / care co-ordinator to a caseload of people with eating disorders and associated complex health needs as allocated, taking responsibility for formulation to appropriate care
Will act as a clinical expert in their service area. This means keeping clinically up to date, being able to assess service users thoroughly, plan care rigorously, and audit and evaluate nursing interventions based on evidence and locally agreed protocols and policies
Will co-ordinate all co-workers assigned to his/her service user group and will ensure they are fully conversant with all aspects regarding the service user’s care and
Will identify the individual care needs of allocated service users, plan, implement and evaluate all care programmes in conjunction with the service’s nursing team and the MDT.
Will co – facilitate therapeutic groups with other members of the MDT
Together with the MDT will manage the risk presented by the eating disorder in relation to physical and mental health
For a more indepth Job and Person Specification please read the attached before applying
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria- RMN or DipHE in Mental Health OR RGN/RNLD/RM/RSCN or DipHE in nursing with significant experience or training in mental health interventions that can be transferable to the eating disorders service work
- Current registration with NMC
- Mentorship experience
- Post registration experience at Band 5
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Experience of working with people with eating disorders
- Experience of working in other clinical settings
- Mentorship training Community nursing experience
Aptitude and Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to communicate effectively within a multiprofessional team.
- Confidence to work autonomously, use own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations.
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or reassuring skills are required.
- Ability to deal with distressing circumstances and challenging behaviour
- Experience of risk assessment and management.
- Ability to cope with an unpredictable work pattern and frequent interruptions
- Understanding of legal framework MHA, MCA, DoLS, safeguarding and social factors involved in care.
- Supervision skills
- Specific clinical skills applicable e.g. management of low weight anorexics, phlebotomy, CBTE
- Implementing quality improvement initiatives.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work flexibly according to client / service needs.
- Receptive to changing environments and an ability to promote positive approaches to implementing changes according to service and client need.
- Leadership qualities
- Ability to remain calm in difficult situations
- Positive approach to work
- Attention to detail.
Other
Essential criteria- You must hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes – including business insurance – is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
- IT Skills; including the use of Microsoft Office and Outlook, entering data onto electronic patient records
- Ability to travel and work flexibly across different sites in Hertfordshire
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”.This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority.
Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles