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Mental Health Nurse/OT for Adult Eating Disorder Services

Do you want to be a part of an award winning team? Then the Suffolk Adult Eating Disorder Team could be the team for you.

Having just won the 2024 ‘Clinical team of the year award’ and been finalists at the National GP awards for ‘Community Mental Health improvement’ the Team are excited to offer you the opportunity to join them.

We are looking for a motivated, empathetic, resilient individual with excellent communication skills who has a passion for working with individuals with eating disorders to join our team covering Suffolk and will be based in Bury St Edmunds. Our applicants will have experience working within eating disorders, and have mental health training.

This opportunity comes at a time of excitement as we are involved in the evolution of a pilot scheme involving the Virtually Intensive Treatment team and Intensive community support. The Post holder will assess, clinically manage, co-ordinate care and treat adults with eating disorders. Working alongside other health care professionals including RMN’s, RGN’s, GP’s, Dieticians and consultant Psychiatrists in order to support services users within their recovery.

If you would like to be part of our welcoming and supportive team then please do not hesitate to apply for this exciting chance to join us.

You will be required to travel to Ipswich and Stowmarket intermittently therefore must be able to travel independently with a UK driving licence.

You will be required to provide planned nursing care and risk assessment/ screening for patients within their care plan. Provide ongoing evaluation of patients’ needs and identify suitability for potential discharge in conjunction through caseload management and supervision.

The successful candidate will have to initiate and attend patient centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required and be able to work within the multi-disciplinary team and to form working partnerships.

You will have ongoing responsibility for the review of a patient’s care within the team setting and to prioritise and disseminate such information within the team.

We will need you to understand and work within the requirements of the Mental Health Act (1983) and to be able to effectively organise your working day, making the best use of time, geographical distances and resources.

Ensuring the best clinical practice, promoting the direct involvement of patients and carers in the development of their care plan is essential and to actively participate in training and education.

We also need the successful candidate to comply with all Trust policies, guidelines and protocols with particular regard to community services.

If you would like to be part of our journey to provide excellent care, then please do not hesitate to apply for this exciting chance to join us.

Benefits included with this role are: -

NHS pension

a comprehensive in house & external training programmes

career progression

starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)

staff physio service

NHS discounts and many more

As part of NSFT we do encourage our team to learn, grow and develop. The team has a wealth of experience for in-house learning and where appropriate courses and development opportunities will be considered in line with the role that you will be providing.

A full induction will be provided to the successful applicant. You will also be allocated to a Buddy to support your induction period. This is a great team to work for with friendly, supportive colleagues who all have a passion for providing the best service that we can. If this is what you want too, then we welcome your application to come and join us on our journey together

Day to day the role will involve core duties some of which are listed below:

Providing one to one treatment interventions both face to face and within the community and via online platforms such as Microsoft Teams.

Establishing rapport, trust and clear goals with in order to help them recover and thrive

Delivering evidenced based care in line with the Thrive model encouraging resilience, growth and personal responsibility to enable young people to reach their goals

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference and be part of our exciting and forward-thinking team, then please click APPLY!

We look forward to hearing from you.

• Previous applicants need not apply *