Specialist Eating Disorder Community Nurse

Overview Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

The closing date is 30 September 2025

The post holder will provide nursing input into the community eating disorders service. The post holder will work across the eating disorder pathways (Standard and Complex) and provides emergency and planned community based treatments to clients.

The post holder will work with the wider MDT to provide monitoring and specialist nursing to patients with a diagnosed eating disorder across multiple treatment pathways. The postholder may also contribute to the pathways for clients with severe and enduring eating disorders (SEED), act as a link worker for patients who are making the transition from CAMHS to adult services and offer assessment and intervention as appropriate to skill set across the additional pathways. The post holder will work with patients who are in the preparation phase for inpatient treatment or are likely to need admission in the near future and may be involved in post-discharge follow-up. The post holder will carry out specialist nursing assessments, run physical health monitoring clinics, plan and implement care, respond appropriately to crises, and maintain associated records.

Responsibilities The post holder will have responsibility for the day to day delivery of the service to individual clients and their families and carers via a range of evidence based interventions.

The post holder will ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to. The post holder will manage and organise competing and conflicting priorities and manage change in complex situations. The post holder will be a resource of clinical knowledge and competence in the service area contributing to staff and service development.

The post holder will provide evidence-based clinical interventions to maximise recovery and independence as required by service needs or complex presentations.

The post holder may be expected to supervise other staff.

The post holder and team will be required to work to the organisation's agile working policy.

The post holder will be required to undertake delegated responsibilities as required.

About us At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities The post holder will:

Be responsible for the assessment of a clients mental health and physical care needs. In collaboration with the client, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care to meet those needs.

Manage a defined case load, acting as a primary worker, taking part in the implementation of appropriate documentation, providing a nursing assessment and carrying out nursing skills as appropriate to the field of eating disorders. To include ongoing assessment and monitoring of the clients diet, weight and eating related behaviours.

Contribute to the Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder pathway for clients with severe and enduring eating disorders through close monitoring of the clients physical health, conducting physical observations and weight monitoring. Arrange referrals for and advise clients on the required frequency of investigations such as bone density scans and monitor the clients compliance with nutritional supplements and other prescribed medication.

Calculate/interpret Body Mass Index and respond as appropriate; ensure tests to monitor the clients physical health parameters are carried out when required and respond to test results appropriately. Carry out venepuncture and access blood results from the clinical reporting system, reporting results to the medical team, acting urgently when required.

Provide support to the pathway for clients whose physical health needs are being monitored, by acting as primary worker to those clients who are not suitable for psychological therapy. To include working with clients who are severely underweight but are not being treated in an inpatient setting, working flexibly to accommodate working with clients immediately after discharge. Liaising with ward nursing staff to ensure there is continuity of care for patients being admitted to and discharged from the inpatient unit.

To provide support to clients who are ready to be transitioned out of the service back to the care of their GP or local community eating disorders service. To liaise with primary care staff to organise regular weighing and blood tests as appropriate.

To act as link worker for patients making the transition from CAMHS to adult services. This will involve working with patients and their families and liaising with CAMHS clinicians.

To act as a duty worker where appropriate. Respond to urgent clinical, risk related or safeguarding issues that arise within the context of the busy medical outpatient clinics. To provide support to the wider MDT by responding to urgent issues that arise that do not require referral to a crisis service.

Provide an ongoing assessment and monitoring of risk, carrying out risk assessment in accordance with STORM risk management tools.

Liaise with other agencies involved in a clients package of care including the crisis team, co-work with other agencies/teams when appropriate.

To monitor and engage clients newly referred into the service who are being prepared for inpatient admission rather than going into active outpatient treatment. This role may include attending part of the weekly ward round in order to keep in touch with admissions and bed status and to provide information on the physical health status of clients in the community who require an inpatient bed.

Work in conjunction with other members of the multidisciplinary team to offer nursing assessments and interventions for highly complex clients who require more than one approach. Providing information to other health care professionals to ensure the clients total care needs are being met.

Visit clients at home as appropriate, which would include the transportation of equipment e.g. weighing scales following the lone worker policy

To work with clients on an informal basis as well as working with clients on a formal basis should this be necessary. Provide nursing care to clients under the Mental Health Act 1983 (Amended 2007) respecting their rights and promoting dignity.

Advise the full multidisciplinary team of nursing issues relating to clients for whom he/she has continuing responsibility.

Give first aid in an emergency situation acting within his/her capabilities.

Maintain a professional and supportive relationship with clients, relatives and carers which would be conducive to recovery.

Assist in the physical examination of patients carried out by medical staff.

Advise clients and carers on the promotion of health and prevention of illness.

Participate in ward rounds and CPA Reviews

Work within a multi agency approach, developing a wide network of contacts within the community encompassing both statutory and voluntary services and provide consultation/advice when required.

Apply enhanced clinical knowledge and skills to the work environment.

• Identify and verify factors including contra-indications apparent from patient history.
• To deliver specific interventions in line with the treatment pathway, including complex clients.
• Evaluate potential efficacy of planned intervention, given all available data
• Liaise with colleagues and other clinicians to clarify and resolve any discrepancies or difficulties in the evaluation of patient data.
• Generate options including modification or alternatives to planned intervention to meet clinical need as appropriate.
• Verify suitability and potential effectiveness of planned intervention or suggested alternatives.
• Agree course of action with those responsible for performing the intervention.
• Document key points of agreement, including specific factors which influenced

advice and recommendations.

• Assess and plan care delivery for individual service users within the framework of the Care Programme Approach.
• To facilitate transfer between services, sign post and/ or discharge as appropriate.
• To routinely enquire, identify and report through the appropriate procedures any safeguarding issues.
• To report safeguarding issues that are identified via others.
• To perform the role of investigator for matters of safeguarding as directed by the safeguarding manager . click apply for full job details