Clinical Team Lead - Eating Disorders | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	19 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£46,419 - £55,046 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	18 September 2025
Location:	London, SW10 9NG
Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7414645/333-G-ED-0441

Summary

At Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service, we have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our service as Clinical Team Lead.

It is an opportunity for a nurse to further their practice and experience within a specialist setting, primarily working within the service. Although the role will be primarily based on the inpatient unit there will be opportunities to work with the day programme, offering support and engaging with other disciplines within the service.

This is a wonderful opportunity to develop care co-ordination and nursing leadership skills as part of the management team on the ward as well as taking more responsibility in supporting the development of ward policy and direction.

You will need to be a motivated, empathic, skilled and a dedicated individual who can work autonomously as well as part of the wider team. Excellent communication skills in all domains are a must with an ability to work flexibly and dynamically within the various teams in the service as needed.

You will be well supported in your role by a friendly, skilled MDT as well as receive regular line management and good clinical supervision in various forms.
• Providing support to clients diagnosed with Eating Disorders via meal support, supervision, key work, groups.
• Ensuring patient safety and care is maintained at a high standard
• Providing supervision to junior staff.
• Completion of audits.
• Deputising for ward manager if required.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings

There’s a place for you at CNWL

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Hear from our staff what it’s like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, please click on below videos

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• Ensure nursing practice is in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Mental Health Legislation, which incorporates and respects differences in respect of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, culture and disability.
• To participate in effective nursing assessment, providing high standard of care to patients on the ward engaging with the philosophy and operational policies of Vincent Square Eating Disorders Service, in addition to Trust policies and procedures.
• Be responsible for the auditing of patient assessments including care plans, risk assessments and Mental Health Act status ensuring documentation is in line with trust policy and acting to resolve any issues that arise.
• To act in accordance to excellent working knowledge of the mental health act, ensuring all patients are aware of their rights and supporting communication with advocates or other disciplinarians who may be of help.
• To liaise with the Multidisciplinary Team at Vincent Square Clinic Eating Disorder Service and other stakeholders involved in patient care, to facilitate the smooth transition of care for patients across the service and local teams.
• To collaborate closely on clinical and managerial matters with the Ward Manager.
• To act as primary or secondary keyworker for the inpatients and secondary keyworker for day patients, utilising skills from psychotherapeutic models that are used within Vincent Square Clinic such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Cognitive Analytical Therapy, and Family Therapy.
• To support recovery for patients based on individual care plans.
• To ensure all patients have a risk assessment.
• To ensure that all in patients have a nursing care plan that is regularly reviewed in collaboration with the patient and that the risk assessment and care plan are linked
• To ensure that planning of care occurs within the framework of CPA, that relevant local and national guidelines are adhered to and support band 5 nursing staff to ensure relevant documentation is completed.
• To communicate with families and carers engaging with them to support patient care.
• To act as group facilitator/co-facilitator as required, including supervision of meals in dining room, as well as inpatient and day patient groups.
• To act as a role model for patients, modelling appropriate eating behaviours and completing meals with patients supplied by service.
• To take a lead nursing role in in patient review meetings if required.
• To provide supervision, and conduct appraisals as appropriate.
• To meet regularly with own manager for professional and managerial supervision.
• To provide interventions applying a good understanding of multicultural issues, so that a culturally sensitive approach that treats service users and their carers/families with respect and dignity all times is adopted.
• To ensure rosters are completed fairly and the skill mix reflects ward requirements.
• Participate in the maintenance of general and specific patient observations, accurately recording of all relevant information and report any concerns. This includes ensuring ECG’s and Venepuncture practises are completed as per patient care plan
• Participate in the insertion of Nasogastric tubes and administration of prescribed diet as per patient care plan and in line with policy and protocol.
• Participate in supporting patients to eat in the dining room and role modelling supportive interventions to fellow staff.
• Always act in a manner as to promote and safeguard the interests and well-being of patients, visitors and colleagues.
• Support patients to have leave of the ward providing escort if required and ensuring this does not compromise patient or ward safety.
• Participate in social, occupational and psychological activities with patients, and in so doing maximise therapeutic opportunities for patients.
• To ensure medications are administered as per patient’s medication chart and participate in the safe storage of medications including stock rotation and pharmacy audits.
• Participate in rotational duties and working in alternative care settings as required.


This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Sep 2025

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