Adult Eating Disorder Physical Health Nurse Specialist

Are you an experienced Physical Health Nurse with specialist experience and knowledge of mental health/Eating Disorders? and do you want to be pivotal to developing and leading on part of something new and whilst developing your skills at the same time?

As a Specialist Nurse in the Countywide Adult Eating Disorder Service you will be responsible for (alongside the Service Doctor and Operational Lead) the development, launch and maintainance thereafter of the new physical health monitoring pathway for our most vulnerable client's within our service. In order to achieve such ambitious goals we recognise the importance of supporting all our staff in building and feeling a part of a healthy, well-functioning team and service. We appreciate we are striving for cutting edge assessment and treatment within a highly emotive and distressing environment. We are looking for individuals that are good under pressure; place high worth in team based working and with an unrelenting passion and dedication for working with our unique and complex client group.

If you are looking to work somewhere that is unconditionally respectful to client's struggling with their eating disorder, that value their staff as individuals and continuously strives to be the best unit it can be then we could be the team for you.

Main duties of the job

To develop and lead, alongside the service's doctor and Operational Lead, a new physical health pathway in the Adult Eating Disorder Service for the most at risk clients open to the service, working across the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health and Social Care Community.

You will be responsible for maintaining an individual caseload, using your specialist skills, from referral to discharge, conducting both routine and high priority physical health reviews and monitoring s for our most at risk client's as appropriate and exercising autonomy.

You will be liaising and providing advice, information and consultation to colleagues and other agencies as well as undertaking service governance activity, including research and audit as appropriate.

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Just over 532,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.