Senior Nurse PractitionerNHS

Job summary

Spring Tide Intensive Treatment Day Service are seeking an experienced and dedicated Band 7 Mental Health Nurse to join our specialist Multi-Disciplinary Team. In this role you will deliver high quality, compassionate care tailored to young people navigating recovery from Anorexia Nervosa. You will oversee therapeutic interventions, shift co-ordination, physical health monitoring, meal supports, family work and help guide junior staff in a supportive, structured environment.

Main duties of the job

Leading the day-to-day coordination of the unit

Providing specialist nursing assessment, formulation and care planning.

Leading all nursing tasks:

Monitoring of physical health of young people with severe Anorexia Nervosa

Meal supports

Care co-ordination for a small case load

Form part of a care team delivering this intervention.

One to one work with young people.

Be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing individual and groupwork Provide supervision and professional support to relevant colleagues. Support service development through service evaluation and audit,

Keeping up to date with developments in the field.

Job description

The successful candidate would be responsible for leading the day-to-day coordination of the unit as well as providing specialist nursing assessment, formulation and care planning. This will include leading all nursing tasks such as the monitoring of physical health of young people with severe Anorexia Nervosa, meal supports and care co-ordination for a small case load All members of the MDT will be trained in the Maudsley model of Family Therapy and form part of a care team delivering this intervention. There will also be one to one work with young people.

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing individual and groupwork and willprovide supervision and professional support to relevant colleagues.You will support service development through service evaluation and audit, as well as bringing new insights through research and keeping up to date with developments in the field.

Ideally you will have prior experience of working with eating disorders and experience of using therapeutic models associated with this client group.

About us

Sussex Partnership Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Working in Sussex:

Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there's always new experiences to be enjoyed

Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London

With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work

79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team

77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

See the attached 'Partnership Perks' document for details about our benefits package.