B6 Registered General Nurse/Mental Health Nurse in Plymouth

37.5 hours per week. An exciting opportunity to make a real difference in the physical health care of adults with eating disorders. Join and help shape the Plymouth Nutritional Risk Monitoring Service, a newly established and evolving service at Livewell Southwest, providing specialist support for individuals across the full spectrum of eating disorders, disordered eating, and ARFID. We are seeking a registered nurse with experience in mental health care RMHN or dual-registered nurse to deliver a specialist, autonomous physical health monitoring service. We are keen to build a team with a dual range of specialist skills, welcoming RMNs, dual-trained RMHNs, to bring complementary expertise. This approach ensures our team can provide holistic, person-centred care for adults with eating disorders, disordered eating, and ARFID. Combining mental health expertise with experience supporting individuals with complex needs. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a new service, make independent clinical decisions, and contribute to the development of care pathways across the city. As the service expands, staff will have the opportunity to rotate across the full Adult Eating Disorders Team, gaining experience across ARFID, disordered eating, and other community pathways. Bespoke specialist training, supervision, and ongoing professional development will be provided to support your growth in this unique and impactful role.

Main duties of the job:

• Deliver physical health monitoring clinics for adults with eating disorders.
• Conduct assessments and support early identification and management of physical health risks.
• Develop individualised, collaborative care plans with the multidisciplinary team.
• Exercise autonomous clinical decision-making within the scope of the role.
• Support staff training and development in relation to physical health.
• Liaise with acute, primary, and community care colleagues to ensure seamless care.
• Contribute to the development and growth of the service, including ARFID and disordered eating community pathways.
• Participate in CPD activities, research, and quality improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• To receive referrals from internal services.
• Undertake assessment of patients referred to the service.
• Utilise a range of highly specialised clinical skills appropriate to the needs of individual patients and the clinical/home setting in which they are seen.
• Ability to match patient need with available skills and resources.
• Work closely with other colleagues to enhance patient experience.
• Provide skilled advice to referrers, patients, and carers.
• Following assessments provide high quality assessment reports/letters to the relevant professionals.
• Maintain high standards of integrity when communicating with patients and others.
• Demonstrate ability to use IT systems effectively including email and clinical systems used by the team.
• Possess a good working knowledge of mental health legislation, including Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty safeguards and use this in relation to advising and planning care.
• Provide nursing care and other interventions in the setting most appropriate to meet the patients needs.
• Exercise emergency judgments and clinical decision-making.
• Maintain high standards of clinical care to patients.
• Formulate care plans, implement, and evaluate them alongside patients and carers ensuring informed consent is obtained.
• Demonstrate safe clinical skills when providing care for patients receiving specialist treatments.
• Work within professional registration (NMC, HCPC, BCAP) only.
• To deputise for the Team Manager in their absence.
• Provide clinical supervision and line management supervision for junior members of staff.
• Have the ability to challenge staff where the standard falls below expectations.
• Have the ability to foster capability and support staff to develop.
• Assist in education programmes provided for junior staff.
• Provide mentorship for students both formally and informally.
• Participate regularly in recruitment and selection of staff.
• Act as a role model for all staff.
• Demonstrate ability to manage conflicting demands on time and prioritise clinical work effectively.
• Demonstrate ability to organise work schedules and reprioritise work in light of changing demand.
• Comply with Livewell Southwest policies and procedures.
• Exercise duty of care in relation to use of the organisation's equipment and resources in a cost-effective manner.
• Maintain equipment, including lone working device, mobile phone and IT equipment.
• Ensure safe storage and stock control of medication.
• Authorise ordering and administration of medication.
• Maintain records securely in line with policy and local practice.
• Take a lead role in the coordination of shift ensuring appropriate allocation of work.
• Liaise with other services to arrange appointments that meet patient and service demands.
• Ensure electronic contacts and monitor the standard of work of junior staff.
• Maintain confidentiality of the patients as per policy while sharing information when appropriate.
• Keep accurate and contemporaneous electronic/written patient records and comply with professional and organisational record keeping policies.
• Ensure evidence of high-quality care standards within the team in line with CQC key lines of enquiry.
• Advise referrers/family/patients, medical and other professional staff on management of patients and contribute to care planning.
• Conduct risk assessments on all patients presenting to the service in line with up-to-date guidance and Livewell Southwest policy.
• Evaluate effectiveness of care interventions with all disciplines of staff, adjusting care plans where necessary.
• Provide skilled telephone advice to referrers, patients, and carers.
• Refer and signpost people to appropriate services as required.
• Involve carers and families of people with health needs, providing support and advice as needed.
• Provide education to patients and carers to enhance knowledge and improve concordance.
• Promote recovery.
• Analyse large amounts of complex information from a range of services, assimilate, and apply relevance to patient health needs.
• Take a lead role in the collaboration and the planning of individual care with patient, carer, other teams and services.
• Ensure safety of patients, staff, and the public in challenging, potentially violent situations.
• Take an active role in development of the team including formulation of protocols.
• Provide a positive role in clinical audit and evaluation to ensure high levels of clinical effectiveness.
• Demonstrate commitment to the improvement of patient care in relation to development of the service.
• Be required to have ability to travel to other clinical sites for attendance at meetings.
• Behave in a manner that does not bring the Team or Livewell SW into disrepute.
• Demonstrate ability to manage conflicting demands on time and prioritise clinical work effectively.
• Demonstrate ability to organise work schedules and reprioritise work in light of changing demand.

Person Specification – Essential Skills:

• Interpersonal skills which can support in building a therapeutic relationship with patient.
• Ability to undertake a full set of physical observations and respond accordingly.
• Leadership skills.
• IT skills.
• Ability to prioritise workload.
• Risk assessment and formulation skills, including safety planning.
• Robust and positive approach towards risk assessment.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Ability to take ownership and leadership of new projects, national initiatives and service development.
• Ability to prioritise and reprioritise work to meet clinical demand.
• Ability to identify and refer on for unmet need.
• Working effectively with patients who may have a variety of communication difficulties.
• Triaging referrals based on clinical urgency.
• Ability to manage environmental stress.
• Ability to work in a changing team.
• Articulate with a high level of communication skills.
• Ability to deal with high levels of emotional stress.
• Ability to sustain high levels of concentration.
• To deputise for the Team Manager in their absence.
• Provide clinical supervision and line management supervision for junior members of staff.
• Ability to challenge staff where the standard falls below expectations.
• Foster capability and support staff to develop.
• Assist in education programmes for junior staff.
• Provide mentorship for students formally and informally.
• Participate regularly in recruitment and selection of staff.

Person Specification – Desirable Skills:

• Staff appraisal skills.
• Committed to developing new ideas and improving patient care.
• Physical healthcare skills.
• Mentoring qualification or equivalent experience.
• Leadership qualifications.
• Post qualification experience/training in mental health and related issues.
• Clinical Supervision training.
• Evidence of completion of statutory and mandatory training.
• Non‑medical prescriber or willingness to work towards this where appropriate.

Qualifications:

• One of the following: RMN/Dip HE/BSc Mental Health Nursing with relevant experience.
• RGN/Dip HE/BSc General Nurse with relevant experience.
• NMC Registration.
• Evidence of on‑going professional development.
• There is a requirement to ensure that training is undertaken to ensure sufficient knowledge in both physical and mental health needs.

Qualifications – Desirable:

• Post qualification experience/training in mental health and related issues.
• Clinical Supervision training.
• Evidence of completion of statutory and mandatory training.
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent experience.
• Non‑medical prescriber or willingness to work towards this where appropriate.
• Leadership qualifications.
• Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Mental health nurse, or psychological wellbeing practitioner.

Experience – Essential:

• Proven relevant experience in working with those who have acute mental health problems and specifically eating disorders.
• Proven experience in assessing the physical health of a patient with an eating disorder and associated risk management.
• Proven experience in quality improvement and development of projects.
• Proven experience of assessment skills.
• Proven experience of supporting carers/families/triangle of care.
• Proven experience of teaching.
• Proven experience of leadership and management skills including supervising and line managing junior staff and students.
• Experience of working collaboratively with patients and their families/carers.

Experience – Desirable:

• Experience of providing clinical supervision, mentoring, and teaching to students and other health professionals.
• Experience of working in an acute inpatient unit.
• Experience of working with older adults.
• Experience of working with people with an offending background.
• Experience of conducting basic physical health screening.
• Previous experience of working in a community mental health setting.
• Evidence of developing and contributing to service development.
• Experience of change in health care.
• Collaborative working with peer support organisations.
• Further postgraduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
• Experience working with a psychologist or MH professional.
• Experience of managing or supervising junior staff.
• Managing a caseload of clients with a range of mental health presentation.

Knowledge – Essential:

• Eating disorders subtypes of diagnosis, knowledge of ED care pathway, knowledge of evidence based recommended treatments.
• Knowledge of initiatives within ED community, knowledge of assessment of physical risk and evidence base around this.
• Clinical Risk Assessment.
• Safeguarding Adults and Children.
• Clinical Governance.
• Psychological models of care and treatment.
• Sound working knowledge of Mental Health Act (1983), Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (2005).
• Understanding of National guidelines and initiatives related to provision of mental health services.
• Understanding of the provision of mental health care and recovery services in the community.
• Specialist knowledge of eating disorders, disordered eating and mental health and their impact on one another.

Knowledge – Desirable:

• CBT skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Solution focused therapy skills.
• Physical healthcare skills.
• Motivational interviewing skills.
• DBT skills.
• Cognitive assessment skills.
• Microsoft Outlook.
• Culturally competent assessment and intervention skills.
• SystmOne, Care First or other electronic records system also eCPA.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Employer Details: Livewell Southwest, 200 Mount Gould Road, Mount Gould, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 7PY. Employer’s website: https://www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk/

Contact Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.