Job overview
The post holder will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary age independent, inpatient Eating Disorders Unit
The post holder will ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to. The post holder will manage and organise competing and conflicting priorities and manage change in complex situations.
The post holder will be a resource of clinical knowledge and competence in the service area contributing to staff and service development. They support on audit, guidelines and quality improvement approaches to ensure the highest standards of safety and quality in their area. The post holder will be required to undertake trusted assessments, provide evidence-based clinical interventions and clinical leadership.
Main duties of the job
- Work as an integrated member of the team, with all service users’ needs within the unit, and hold a designated named clinician case load.
- Formulate and coordinating holistic assessment of mental and physical needs.
- To be Nurse in Charge (NIC) and shift management.
- To supervise and develop junior staff member, with responsibility for ensuring junior staff, students and trainees have specific role competency sign off.
- Ensure there is a robust process for care plan formulation, review, evaluate treatment and safety plans and report back to multi-professional team.
- Contribute to the maintenance and development of the social and physical therapeutic environment.
- Lead of all areas of risk management within the ward ensuring risk, including patient risk, positive risk taking, and environmental risk assessment is embedded and that trust processes around risk are adhered to and recorded.
- To manage the use of ng feeding for patients including specific training around ng tube insertion, pump set up and bolus feeding
- To supervise meal times and lead post meal supervision
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working with people with mental health needs
- Experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management.
- Experience of safeguarding and investigations
- Experience of people management
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Professional Qualification i.e. RMN/HCPC
- Current unrestricted registration with governing body
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of Equal Opportunities
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of confidentiality
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of policies and procedures
- Effective organisational and delegation skills
- Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding safety issues
- Ability to demonstrate and apply problem solving skills to a variety of situations
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This advert is for Eating Disorder Clinical Lead - Band 6 with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust in Aspen Centre. It is listed as a Band 6 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Sep 2026.
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