Community Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and compassionate Community Nurse Practitioner to play a core part in delivering skills underpinned by brief psychological interventions within the new A-EDIT service.

The Adult Eating Disorders Intensive Treatment service (A-EDIT) is a regionwide service offering treatment as an alternative to Specialist Eating Disorder (SEDU) inpatient admission to adults receiving treatment from an east of England Community Eating Disorders service (CEDS) who have a severe eating disorder which makes them eligible for SEDU admission.

The post holder 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 and NICE recommended therapeutic interventions based on evidence and locally agreed protocols and policies.

The post holder will be liaising/working alongside the wider CEDS including the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT), ward staff, other health and social care providers across the East of England region.

If you are looking for a new challenge, are passionate about or have an interest in the field of eating disorders and enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference for our community, then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work in close collaboration with the Adult Eating Disorders Intensive Treatment professionals to deliver effective, individualised, evidence-based care to support those experiencing an exacerbation in their eating disorders from requiring hospital admission and to facilitate early discharge from hospital.  This will involve assessment of service users’ needs, contributing to care planning, liaising/supporting carers, delivering interventions alongside colleagues, reviewing interventions, and supporting discharge meetings.

The post holder will provide guidance and support to the team’s senior support workers in absence of the service Leads as well as act as a point of contact for the AEDIT MDT.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Work with people with moderate to severe eating disorders in order to prevent hospital admission or facilitate early discharge in collaboration with other AEDIT team members including assessment of those referred to the service, care planning formulation, attendance at professional meetings, identifying and delivering interventions, reviewing support and participating is discharge planning meetings.
• Provide nursing care in a person-centred way that promotes and facilitates the positive health and well-being of people with eating disorders
• Be responsible for providing specialist nursing care for people with moderate to severe eating disorders under the care of the team. Ensuring that interventions following NICE guidelines for eating disorders, meet Medical Emergency in Eating Disorders (MEED) guidance.
• If not already trained the postholder will undertake training in phlebotomy to monitor the physical health of people with severe eating disorders under the guidance of the Consultant Psychiatrist.
• When the service need arises. Physical health needs of the services users will need to be managed jointly between the local CEDs and AEDIT.
• Be responsible for the assessment of care needs/risk, formulation of care and risk management plans to meet needs of service users presenting with moderate to severe eating disorders. Co-produce care plans with the service user, carers and professionals with the aim of avoiding hospital admission and/or facilitating early discharge as well as supporting progression on the individual’s recovery journey.
• To respond to any crisis that a service user may advise of, with the aim of promoting independent and recovery whilst living in the community but in a way that safely manages that crisis.
• Contribute to the management of service users in the community who are at a high level of risk in partnership with the consultant psychiatrists and AEDIT MDT to promote service user recovery as well as safety including GP liaison.
• Have a sound knowledge of medications and their desired and undesired effects if used for our service users.
• Guide AEDIT A-team members regarding their specialist area to ensure awareness and monitoring of signs of increased physical ill health risk by all team members.
• Be a role model through their own good practice in demonstrating Trusts values.
• Be responsible for maintaining clinical standards, and team systems

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website