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Job overview

This post is a great development opportunity for a Band 4 Return to Practice Nurse looking to gain experience and insight into working with adults with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder.

 The successful candidate will have the opportunity to practice a full range of specialist nursing skills in mental and physical health while attending a return to practice nursing course through Angla Ruskin University one day a week.

The length of the return to practice course will depend on previous experience and assessed competencies. The candidate will be a supernumerary member of the team while engaged on the return to practice course. Following the completion of the course the practitioner will transition to a band 5 nursing role on S3.

Main duties of the job

• Carry out clinical observations on patients, recognising, recording, and reporting abnormalities and changes in patients' condition to the Registered Practitioner.
• Assist in planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual programmes of care for patients.
• Assist in ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met
• Participating in meal preparation.
• Providing meal supervision and post meal observations.
• Undertake phlebotomy training and training in conducting ECG
• Participate in the process of involving relatives/carers in the provision of patient care.
• Utilise early warning score indicators in eating disorders (Marsi MEWS) to recognise any patient deterioration/sudden change in condition, reporting immediately to a Registered Practitioner.
• Prepare and undertake interventions consistent with evidenced based practice, transferring and applying knowledge and skills to meet patients' needs.
• Participating in multi-disciplinary team meetings and CPA meetings
• Act in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times.
• Contribute to the prevention and control of infection in line with Trust guidelines.
• Ensure that essential information on the patients' condition and progress is recorded in accordance with Trust guidelines.
• Understand the need to maintain and respect patient confidentiality.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk