Eating Disorder Clinical Lead - Band 6

• Work as an integrated member of the team, withall service users' needs within the unit,and hold a designated named clinician case load.
• Formulate and coordinating holistic assessment of mental and physical needs.
• To be Nurse in Charge (NIC) and shift management.
• To supervise and develop junior staff member, with responsibility for ensuring junior staff, students and trainees have specific role competency sign off.
• Ensure there is a robust process for care plan formulation, review, evaluatetreatment and safety plans and report back to multi-professional team.
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of the social and physical therapeutic environment.
• Lead of all areas of risk management within the ward ensuring risk, including patient risk, positive risk taking, and environmental risk assessment is embedded and that trust processes around risk are adhered to and recorded.
• To manage the use of ng feeding for patients including specific training around ng tube insertion, pump set up and bolus feeding
• To supervise meal times and lead post meal supervision

Essential

• Relevant Professional Qualification i.e. RMN/HCPC
• Current unrestricted registration with governing body
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of Equal Opportunities
• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of confidentiality
• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of policies and procedures
• Effective organisational and delegation skills
• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding safety issues
• Ability to demonstrate and apply problem solving skills to a variety of situations

Essential

• Previous experience of working with people with mental health needs
• Experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management.
• Experience of safeguarding and investigations
• Experience of people management