Would you like to be part of a service that is innovative, forward-thinking, and committed to enabling people with Anorexia Nervosa to recover and discover their potential?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Specialist Eating Disorders Nurse Practitioner to join our Day Support Programme. We are seeking a caring and compassionate practitioner who is innovative, creative, flexible, and highly motivated to contribute to the delivery of high-quality care within our specialist service.
The Day Support Programme is a well-established, dynamic, multidisciplinary outpatient service providing a comprehensive programme of meal support and psychoeducational groups for adults with Anorexia Nervosa. Grounded in a philosophy of self-directed recovery, the programme supports individuals to build meaningful and fulfilling lives beyond their eating disorder. We work collaboratively and flexibly with service users, their families, and wider support networks.
Please note this role requires a driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.
This vacancy is part time 30 hours per week.
The successful applicant will play a key role within our multidisciplinary team, supporting the delivery of evidence-based interventions to service users and their carers. You will provide expert mental health advice, underpinned by a strong understanding of behaviour change principles, to support individuals across Hampshire in making and sustaining health-related changes.
Key responsibilities include delivering high-quality, evidence-based care; developing and implementing risk management and care plans; facilitating and evaluating therapeutic group interventions; providing specialist advice; supporting service users during mealtimes; undertaking case management and key worker responsibilities; and supervising and supporting team members.
The Day Support Programme currently operates Monday to Friday, with staff working varying shifts between 08:30 and 19:30. These hours may be subject to change in line with service needs.
Please contact Lynda Webb, Day Support Programme Team Lead, on 023 8231 2000.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of recent CPD and compliance with NMC revalidation
- Student Nurse Supervisor and Assessor
- Drivers' licence with access to car for work purposes
- Experience of working in a community/in patient mental health setting
- Leadership training / qualification
- Post qualification in-depth experience within the field of mental health nursing
- Experience of providing supervision and line management of staff.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
