Job summary
- Main area
- Nurse
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-CED079
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Courtyard / George Turle House
- Town
- Maidstone / Canterbury
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Nurse
Band 6
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic and compassionate nurse looking to make a meaningful difference?
We are seeking a Specialist Nurse to join the Kent and Medway All-Age Eating Disorder Service (AAEDS). In this rewarding role, you will represent the Trust by providing leadership, support, and expert guidance to team members and wider staff, ensuring we deliver high-quality, patient-focused care.
Working as a key practitioner within our dedicated ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) Pathway, you will carry out clinical assessments, support diagnoses, and play a vital role in reducing unnecessary and prolonged inpatient stays for our service users.
Main duties of the job
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Clinical Assessment & Diagnosis: Conduct specialist assessments and support the diagnostic process for individuals with eating disorders, including ARFID.
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Collaborative Working: Partner closely with GPs to promote early referrals and diagnosis, while working alongside Trust colleagues, individuals, and families across professional boundaries to continuously enhance our service delivery.
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Team Leadership & Workload Management: Efficiently organize, prioritize, and coordinate your own and team members' workloads to maintain high standards of patient care.
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Effective Communication: Establish clear, open, and consistent communication channels across teams, ensuring service users, families, and staff receive accurate and accessible information.
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Risk Management & Safety: Proactively manage risks at the team level by carrying out risk assessments, completing incident reports, and escalating residual risks to the Trust register.
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Governance & Standards: Maintain accurate clinical and audit records while adhering strictly to Trust protocols, procedures, and quality standards.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Please see the attached job description for the main duties and responsibilities if this position.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Successful completion of a graduate training as a registered nurse with current NMC registration status.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with patients with eating disorders.
- Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of the patient.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of working with eating disorders at a range of severities and complexities.
- Knowledge of legislation and guidelines in relation to eating disorders and safeguarding procedures and policies.
- Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amelia Best
- Job title
- Senior Specialist Nurse / Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 300 n1980
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