clinical nurse London, England
Job description
Eating Disorders is a specialism within children’s mental health, therefore finding candidates with rich experience is really important. It would be fantastic to have staff ‘ready-to-go', but we appreciate the need to grow and develop people in this field and improve young people’s access to care.
As such we have training in Family Based Treatment for Eating Disorders delivered by the renowned James Lock MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at the School of Medicine and director of the Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (via Zoom). We can offer this training to candidates who are successful at interview.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
What do we do?
The recommended evidence-based intervention indicated for this patient group is Family-Based Treatment FBT, FT-AN, CBT-e for eating disorders. All clinicians in the team are trained to deliver some or all of these interventions. We offer systemic therapy, for those who an individual therapy approach is more appropriate. In addition, we also offer a parent group to support those caring for a young person with an eating disorder. We link with CNWL CAMHS for joint work (for co-morbidities) and other agencies as necessary.
Typical tasks for this role are: You will undertake in the processing of new referrals to the service. You will assess, plan and provide clinical interventions relevant to the patient group such as: FBT, supportive clinical management, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills, and other evidenced based models of care, as well as facilitate physical health monitoring clinics. You will liaise with referrers and offer training, advice and consultation to medical wards, primary and secondary care services and other external agencies as required.
We look forward to welcoming you to our team and helping you to grow. If you have any questions about us and the role please get in touch.
The team consists of nursing, occupational therapists, psychologist, assistant psychologists, systemic Family therapist , a dietician, paediatrician and psychiatry. We are expanding into the use of systemic practitioners and developing nurses to the Advanced Clinical Practitioner level. The leads of the service are a Clinical Team Lead, Consultant Psychiatrist, and is linked to the ED service which is overseen by Head of ED and a Clinical Director for ED. Recent developments are better links with the Adult Service, and development of a day programme and Intensive Community Treatment Team.
Since Covid-19 we have adjusted our working practices and staff typically work from home 1-2 days a week, dependent on service need . We know staff have lives outside of work, and want to promote balance, therefore we take flexible working seriously. You will be given your own remote working system via laptops to support this.
Our main base is in Chelsea (next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital). Thanks to the heavy NHS influence many local cafes, restaurants and bars give discounts ranging from 10-20% to all NHS staff. Our second site is based in Harrow at Roxborough Road which is a 5 minute walk from Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station. Although clinicians typically work across both sites, individual preference is taken into consideration.
- Working with young people assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating their care
- To develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with young people and their families/carers.
- To liaise with the young person’s professional network, keeping them informed of developments and promoting multi agency collaboration. Liaison with Children’s Specialist Services, Educational services, independent sector mental health providers, counsellors and any other professional related to the child
- To involve the young person, and where appropriate, their families/carers in delivering programmes of treatment for eating disorders.
- To attend and actively participate in clinical meetings as part of the multidisciplinary team such as referrals meetings, case conferences, care reviews, network
- To receive supervision of clinical work
- To maintain clinical records in accordance with the NMC standards for record keeping and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct
- To participate in the recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal and development of staff, and to conduct formal and informal supervision of junior clinicians
- Monitoring of physical and mental health issues related to patients with eating disorders
- To undertake Veno puncture and ECG procedures or willingness to be trained in order to practice these.
