Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

"The mission of the Norfolk & Waveney Eating Disorders service is to build meaningful, therapeutic relationships with young people and their families. Instilling hope, enabling change, and supporting recovery."

We are delighted to be recruiting a Mental Health Nurse to join our Eating Disorders Intensive Day Treatment Team (EDITT). This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative service, which only opened its doors in June 2022. The service offers day treatment for young people who require additional support alongside the community team to manage their Eating Disorder. The day treatment service is regionally leading the way in Eating Disorders day treatment and due to its success is looking to expand what they offer.

As you can see from the mission of our service this role is about building relationships, inspiring others, and working as part of a vibrant and skilled team to support recovery for those who access our service. The team pride themselves on working in collaboration with families therefore any experience of enthusiasm to working with young people and their parents/carers would support the successful candidate in this role.

If you have an interest in specialist mental health services and a desire to help young people and families to thrive, then you may be the right person for our team.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit a motivated mental health nurse to be part of our multi-disciplinary team who provide practical, emotional, therapeutic and medical support to young people team. Your duties will involve developing a trusting therapeutic relationship with young people, helping them to build skills and therapeutic knowledge both on a 1:1 and in a group scenario, offering coaching and meal support, and contribute to the management of their physical health. You will also be expected to liaise with the community teams and with our colleagues in Education.

Whilst experience working with young people would be preferable, we are open to welcoming people from clinical backgrounds with experience in other areas of mental health. We understand that you will be able to bring with you a wealth of skills and experience to the team and would welcome fresh ways of thinking.

Staff well-being is integral part of our service line and there are opportunities for CPD development, specialist training, supervision, support from experienced colleagues and to be involved in the development of a service that wants to make a difference to people's lives.

If you are interested please take a look at the Job Description for more information about this post.

Please don't hesitate to call us to discuss anything about the team or the roles.

Tania Pombeiro (Senior Systemic Psychotherapist - Day Treatment Lead) on 01603978455, Donna Woodcock (Clinical Nurse Specialist) on 01603 978455

About us

We believe that ongoing training, support and a positive and friendly culture is vital for our team's emotional wellbeing and allowing them to be able to provide the best possible care. We are looking for people with the drive to develop therapeutic relationships to work with people through their recovery journey who can apply their motivational enhancement skills, observation skills and ability to confidently engage with all those participating in this journey.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Lighthouse Centre, Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Rd

Norwich

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Lighthouse Centre, Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Rd

Norwich

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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