The closing date is 23rd Jul 2026
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Job summary
We are seeking an experienced, compassionate, and highly skilled Lead Nurse to join our Children and Adolescent Eating Disorder (CAED) Service. This is a pivotal leadership role within a specialist multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality, evidence-based care to children and young people experiencing eating disorders and their families.
As Lead Nurse, you will bring advanced clinical expertise, strong leadership capability, and a passion for delivering outstanding care within a collaborative, recovery-focused service.
The Lead Nurse will provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation, and intervention for children and adolescents with eating disorders, including complex and high-risk presentations.
While also providing clinical expertise and resource for the team, ensuring care is aligned with current best practice, national guidance, and evidence-based models.
Working alongside the Team Manager to provide strong clinical and professional leadership to the nursing workforce. Overseeing workforce development, including recruitment, retention, and succession planning. Promote a culture of learning, reflection, and continuous improvement, supporting staff wellbeing and professional growth.
The role will be part of a specialist, forward-thinking service dedicated to improving outcomes for young people. With the opportunity to shape and influence service development and innovation within a supportive team culture with a commitment to staff wellbeing, this could be the role for you!
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
To provide professional and clinical nursing leadership across the service; to contribute to the development and review of the Trust's Nursing Strategy and to lead on its delivery and review within the locality area.
To develop and deliver specialist training, education and development opportunities for nursing staff and as agreed, others.
To lead within the service on promoting clinical innovation and delivering continual development of nursing practice based upon evidence and relevant research. To undertake the role of Practice and Cost Effectiveness Domain lead for the service. To ensure excellence in nursing practice and that service delivery is based on NICE guidelines and other relevant documents and guidance.
To act as service lead in an area appropriate to the service.
To ensure all nursing teams have mechanisms that ensure staff comply with the Code of Professional Conduct and regulation requirements as set out by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. To support and advise managers in developing supervision for CAMHS nurses in the designated area
To act as a point of contact and nursing resource on all nursing issues relating to the designated area.
To provide and deliver specialist nursing advice and interventions for a caseload of young people with complex needs, and their families and to work closely with the Service Manager and Clinical Heads of Service in order to deliver a person-centred service.
To provide expert nursing advice to patients, carers and staff.
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About us
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
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Job description
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.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
Recognised professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing e.g. RMN.
Evidence of continued professional development.
Appropriate leadership qualification (at diploma level) or equivalent vocational experience.
Educated to master's degree level or willingness to undertake appropriate training.
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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For help with your application, contact:
Nicky Duncombe
[email protected]
02382317903
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 8a
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Salary
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£57528.00 to £64750.00 Yearly
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Contract
Permanent
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Working pattern
Part-Time, Full-Time
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Reference number
348-CFS-11624
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Job locations
Cromwell House
15 Andover Road
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 7BT
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Attachments
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Job Description
Job Description - Band 8a - Lead Nurse.pdf – 263KB Opens in a new window
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Additional document 1
EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf – 1001KB Opens in a new window
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