Advanced Nurse Practitioner

We are excited to announce we are recruiting an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) to join our Adult Eating Disorder Outpatient Team. ETT provide intensive support in the community and in patients homes to improve accessibility and reduce inpatient admissions. The post holder will work within the Outpatient service supporting with ETT duties and outpatient duties. They will provide clinical expertise and be a point of escalation. They will support the implementation of ETT, ensuring the team meet its objectives. The ANP will work clinically, hold a caseload and support junior staff with complex cases. This role will be pivotal in supporting the changes that are currently in progress across our Eating Disorder services within the provider collaborative, and to ensure that we continue to deliver the best possible care to the patients that we serve. Key priorities will be supporting with training, development and providing therapy, assessment, consultation, and treatment. If you are a highly motivated, skilled individual with experience of working in Eating Disorder services looking for a challenge with the opportunity to shape a new service, then please consider applying.,

• To be responsible for managing and prioritising own client workload of adults with complex and severe anorexia nervosa.
• To provide appropriate therapy as part of a multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment plan.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of group work interventions focusing on life skills training, motivational and creative activities, systemic, psychological, and psychotherapeutic interventions for individual patients, and carers, families and groups.
• To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information, for example regarding the experience and effects of anorexia and other severe eating disorders.
• Supporting the team with complex cases and jointly visiting patients in their home or in the community to offer senior support.
• To work in close liaison with other services including health and social care, acute hospitals, services across the ED pathway and within the provider collaborative.
• To work collaboratively with the ANP for SLAM Enhanced Treatment Team
• To work closely with patients and their carers, offering family interventions, support, and guidance.
• To act as care coordinator, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans.
• To be a clinical expert in the field of Eating Disorders, supporting junior staff with clinician decision making and acting as a point of escalation.
  
  Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'. This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027. We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do. We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive. Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.