CAMHS Eating Disorder / Crisis Liaison Nurse - Aylesbury

As the Eating Disorder /Crisis Liaison mental health nurse your main duties will be:
· To lead and ensure there is effective provision of support for CYP with an eating disorder within the Crisis Service.
· To work across both the Crisis and Eating Disorder CAMHS services and other agencies to ensure that CYP have high quality effective interventions, with the role providing an effective interface for communication between the ED team and Crisis Team. This includes ensuring good communication with Inpatient Units where CYP may be requiring admission and to support good discharge planning.
+ To offer robust mental health support to children and young people with mental health concerns, specifically CYP with eating disorders and co-morbidity as required
+ To participate on the CYP ED team's duty rota and undertake emergency assessments when and where required (i.e. community, hospital site, children's homes)
+ To support the development of care pathways, and signpost young people to appropriate mental health services.
+ To provide consultation, advice, training and support both internally and for other agencies, Please see full job description. Duties include
Expert Clinical Practice
+ Provide expert care to patients on their caseload. Providing skilled assessment, treatment, supervision and consultation within CAMHS
+ The post holder will have Clinical Care Keyworker responsibility for an agreed case load of Eating Disorder patients, undertaking CPA, including crisis and risk management
+ Develop risk management plans, regularly review risk plans, identifying opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with the client, community team and client's carers/ relatives/ significant others
+ Provide expertise and specialist advice, supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals delivering complex interventions and to contribute directly to young people's assessment and treatment. In particular this role will be to ensure there's an effective operational day to day links between the Crisis Team, Eating Disorders Team and partner agencies.
+ Make critical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job
+ Draw on advanced knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest order, some of which are likely to be highly specialist, acquired only after lengthy training, supervision and practice. In particular to provide appropriate interventions for the patient group such as NICE concordant eating disorder treatments, DBT skills and group work as required.
+ Make and receive referrals
+ Complete advanced history taking, and physical examinations as required with patient group
+ Regularly undertake clinical supervision
Professional Leadership and Consultancy
· Support and inspire colleagues around field
· Set and improve standards and quality in expert field, with other disciplines, the wider organisation and across organisational boundaries
· Develop professional practice of self and others, in expert field
· Provide expert advice, support and guidance to others around expertise in response to requests from individuals, teams and for purposes of strategic planning, · Contribute to the education, training and development of other clinical staff and partner agencies
· Help to identify and respond to learning needs at individual, team and organisational levels, focusing on experienced colleagues, particularly those who need to develop advanced knowledge and skills in this field
· Take a key role in helping to integrate theory and practice
· Support staff in the Crisis team to develop their clinical skills in order for them to work effectively with CYP with Eating Disorders and to provide training for the team, wider service and other agencies.
Service development
· Work at the forefront of practice innovation - drawing on professional knowledge and expertise to determine how to deal with ambiguous, unique, or novel problems.
· Generate, monitor and evaluate practice protocols
· Appreciation of national and international standards in the specialty
· Take an active part of national professional networks in this field
· Contribute to evaluation of local services against benchmarks characteristic of the best in this field
+ All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
+ Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
+ Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
+ We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
+ We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
+ Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
+ Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

We are looking for an experienced mental health nurse to be based in our CAMHS Eating Disorders multidisciplinary team (MDT) , and work to forge a strong links with our our Crisis MDT. This includes the provision of consultation, training and attendance at clinical meetings to support the Crisis team in the care of patients with eating disorders. Alongside the link role your experience will be valued through you holding a clinical caseload.
You will be a qualified mental health nurse with experience of working with children and young (CYP) in crisis, and also specifically have worked with CYP with eating disorders. We are looking for someone who will share their knowledge and experience with other clinicians and provide support for them in their role working with this patient group.
You will be ambitious and have a positive attitude and outstanding clinical skills, along with excellent interpersonal skills which will enable you to thrive within a multi-disciplinary team context and in working with this complex patient group and their families.
Located at our site in Aylesbury, both the ED Team and Crisis teams pride themselves in being supportive and friendly places to work and professionally develop.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
+ Excellent opportunities for career progression
+ Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
+ 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
+ NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
+ Competitive pension scheme
+ Lease car scheme
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Employee Assistance Programme
+ Mental Health First Aiders
+ Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
+ Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team