North London NHS Foundation Trust
Community Mental Health Nurse
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Band 5 Outpatient Staff Nurse (RMN/RGN)
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Outpatient Staff Nurse (RMN/RGN) within the multidisciplinary outpatient eating disorder (ED) team at St Ann's Hospital. This is a friendly and ever-growing team, responsible for many exciting pathways, including the Intensive Outpatient Pathway and the Close Monitoring Clinic. The post holder will assist with the assessment, monitoring and care of adults with EDs, working under the supervision of senior nurses and other clinicians. Duties will include supporting the delivery of care planning, physical health monitoring and joint assessment.
The role requires collaborative working with families, carers and a range of professionals within and outside the Trust. The post holder will contribute to maintaining high standards of care and participate in clinical discussions, service audits and training.
St Ann's Eating Disorder Service offers multiple opportunities for professional development, should the post-holder wish to progress further in their career in EDs. This includes weekly Continuous Professional Development Sessions; opportunities to be trained in frontline ED therapies, such as MANTRA and Specialist Supportive Clinical Management; phlebotomy training; nasogastric feeding training; and an opportunity to develop as a specialist eating disorder liaison nurse.
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This role is a development post with the opportunity to progress to a Band 6 Specialist ED Nurse post within 18 months, subject to meeting development requirements.
As a Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse
You will work as part of a supportive and specialist multidisciplinary team, contributing to the assessment, monitoring and care of adults with eating disorders across our outpatient pathways.
Your day-to-day duties will include carrying out physical health monitoring tasks such as ECGs, vital signs and phlebotomy, participating in the nurse-led Close Monitoring Clinic, and maintaining accurate clinical records on the Trust's electronic patient record system (RiO). You will observe and report changes in patients' mental and physical health, contribute to psychoeducation and support interventions, and liaise with patients, families, carers and professionals to deliver patient-centred care.
You will attend and contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings and case discussions, and work collaboratively with colleagues across the Trust and wider health and social care system.
Working for North London NHS Foundation Trust
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
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Our Five-Year Strategy
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The Post Holder Will Need To Be Comfortable Working In An Environment Of Complex Matrix Management Arrangements And Will At All Times Behave And Align With Our Trusts’ Values And Cultural Pillars
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dasha Komarova
- Job title: Acting Outpatient Manager
- Email address: dasha.komarova@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0208 702 6240
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