Mental Health Nurse / Adult Nurse / OT / Social Worker - Adult Eating Disorder Services
Do you want to be a part of an award winning team? Then the Suffolk Adult Eating Disorder Team could be the team for you. Having just won the 2024 'Clinical team of the year award' and being finalists at the National GP awards for 'Community Mental Health improvement', the team is excited to offer you the opportunity to join them.
We are looking for a motivated, empathetic, resilient individual with excellent communication skills who has a passion for working with individuals with eating disorders to join our team covering Suffolk and will be based in Bury St Edmunds. This opportunity comes at a time of excitement as we are involved in the evolution of a pilot scheme involving the Virtually Intensive Treatment team and Intensive community support.
The post holder will assess, clinically manage, co‑ordinate care and treat adults with eating disorders. Working alongside other health care professionals including RMNs, RGNs, GPs, dieticians and consultant psychiatrists in order to support service users within their recovery.
Please note you will be required to travel to Ipswich and Stowmarket intermittently. You will be required to provide planned nursing care and risk assessment/screening for patients within their care plan, provide ongoing evaluation of patients' needs and identify suitability for potential discharge in conjunction with caseload management and supervision.
We also require the successful candidate to comply with all Trust policies, guidelines and protocols with particular regard to community services and to understand and work within the Mental Health Act (1983).
Day to day the role will involve core duties some of which are listed below:
* Providing one to one treatment interventions both face to face and within the community and via online platforms such as Microsoft Teams.
* Establishing rapport, trust and clear goals in order to help patients recover and thrive.
* Delivering evidence based care in line with the Thrive model encouraging resilience, growth and personal responsibility to enable people to reach their goals.
* Initiate and attend patient‑centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required and be able to work within the multidisciplinary team and to form working partnerships.
* Provide ongoing responsibility for the review of a patient’s care within the team setting and to prioritise and disseminate such information within the team.
* Organise your working day effectively, making best use of time, geographical distances and resources.
* Actively participate in training and education.
Benefits included with this role are:
* NHS pension.
* A comprehensive in-house & external training programme.
* Career progression.
* Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays).
* Staff physiotherapy service.
* NHS discounts and many more.
We will provide a full induction and buddy support during your induction period. We encourage team members to learn, grow and develop through in‑house learning and appropriate courses and development opportunities in line with the role. If this is what you want, then we welcome your application to join us on our journey together.
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