Role Overview

The post holder will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary age independent, inpatient Eating Disorders Unit.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to.
• Manage and organise competing and conflicting priorities and manage change in complex situations.
• Serve as a resource of clinical knowledge and competence in the service area contributing to staff and service development.
• Support on audit, guidelines, and quality improvement approaches to ensure the highest standards of safety and quality in their area.
• Undertake trusted assessments, provide evidence-based clinical interventions, and clinical leadership.

Key Tasks

• Work as an integrated member of the team, with all service users’ needs within the unit, and hold a designated named clinician case load.
• Formulate and coordinate holistic assessments of mental and physical needs.
• Be Nurse in Charge (NIC) and manage shift management.
• Supervise and develop junior staff members, ensuring junior staff, students, and trainees have specific role competency sign off.
• Ensure a robust process for care plan formulation, review, evaluation, treatment, and safety plans and report back to the multi-professional team.
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of the social and physical therapeutic environment.
• Lead all areas of risk management within the ward ensuring risk, including patient risk, positive risk-taking, and environmental risk assessment is embedded and that trust processes around risk are adhered to and recorded.
• Manage the use of NG feeding for patients including specific training around NG tube insertion, pump set up, and bolus feeding.
• Supervise meal times and lead post meal supervision.