Band 6 Nurse- Waterlily Inpatient Prevention inLeicester inLeicester PUBLISHED
MON 25 NOV 2024
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust rPExmVG6
The position requires one nurse for face-to-face work in Leicestershire and another for Lincolnshire, supporting community teams and facilitating effective communication. Responsibilities include facilitating online groups, supervising less experienced staff, and contributing to training and development efforts. Benefits of the role include autonomy in patient interventions, regular supervision, in-house training, free parking, and working in a collaborative team. Part-time and flexible working arrangements are considered.
For more details, interested candidates can contact Sandra Marshall via email or phone.
Waterlily is an intensive online treatment programme for patients with anorexia nervosa, living in the east midlands region. The east midlands region includes Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire.
The online service provides a group programme, Monday to Friday, 8.30am till 4.30pm, involving the delivery of educational and therapeutic groups and meal supervisions.
We offer patients the opportunity to restore their weight in the community as an alternative to inpatient care or to receive a more intensive option of outpatient treatment, if struggling to restore weight in the community.
Although the majority of the treatment is delivered online, there is also some face to face work on an individual basis and community support for activities such as home cooking, visits to cafes or for shopping.
We are looking for two Mental Health nurses, to support our team with both mental and physical health monitoring, with the aim of ensuring risks are considered and managed in a safe and therapeutic manner.
We are looking to appoint one nurse able to support face to face work in Leicestershire and one living/able to work within the Lincolnshire area.
Although the programme is run as one team over the whole east midlands area, we require staff in each region to work with the community teams, in order to facilitate the face to face work with patients and ensure effective team working and communication.
The main aspects of the role will be to provide:
- Mental Health assessments Physical Health assessments Creating comprehensive and patient centred care plans Implementing and reviewing plans of care
- Working 1:1 with patients as keyworker to patients on the programme
- Facilitating online groups
- Providing supervision to less experienced staff Training and development of staff
The benefits of being the post holder will be:
- Current staff describe role as rewarding and fun!
- Autonomy to facilitate patient focussed interventions
- Regular supervision
- Inhouse training
- Regular CPD
- Free car parking
- Contribution to continued development and service improvements
- Working within a skilled and creative team including assistant psychologists, OTs, nurses, therapists and Therapy Support Workers
- Working collaboratively with patients and carers
The post holder will also take a lead in facilitating and co-facilitating online groups with the support of other experienced clinicians across the provider collaborative. We would consider applications for part time and flexible working patterns. Contact Details: Sandra Marshall - Tel:
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