Operational Lead for Eating Disorder & Complex Emotional Needs Services

Cornwall is embarking on its three-year transformation of its core community mental health services; we are looking for someone to lead the development of the Eating Disorders and Complex Emotional Difficulties service. This makes it a refreshing & interesting time to join our adult mental health services in Cornwall, as we are focused on developing into an outstanding service. We are working towards a complete transformation of services in Cornwall in line with national plans to create integrated and collaborative health and social care systems. Our mission is to provide a safe and empowering environment steeped in a caring, culture of acceptance, curiosity, and empathy. We are building a team of highly motivated people who are keen to influence change and culture within adult mental health services in Cornwall.

This newly created post offers you the opportunity to inspire, design and implement service development and expansion in our current Eating Disorder and Complex Emotional Needs Services. It will push & encourage you to think outside and around the box in further designing & developing this service. We will support you to lead on driving forward key national changes give you the confidence to manage and lead your own service. You will be responsible for ensuring that all stakeholders are involved in every step of the developing service and you will form part of a Transformational Leadership Team.

We are an organisation who will recognise & value your clinical expertise, post-qualification training and high level of specialist experience, with a genuine commitment to your career development and continued learning. We will enable you to use your clinical & leadership skills, encourage you to develop your ideas to shape our mental health services.

We are dedicated to building a compassionate workplace where quality improvement to the services we provide is at the heart of everything we do.

Here’s what we can offer you:

• Being part of an innovative and supportive multi professional clinical leadership & management team dedicated to providing high-quality clinical care.
• Responsibility for the safe and effective running of the referral management services and excellent working relationships with our commissioners, stakeholder partners, service users and their families/carers.
• Opportunities to be part of audit, research and leading service modernisation and improvements with the support of a dedicated quality lead.
• Regular reflective practice, clinical supervision, training and professional development opportunities.
• Staff benefits, including planned wellbeing time.

If you would like to know more, we would love to have an informal conversation with you about this post.

Find out more and contact Beth Ford, (Community Mental Health Operational Manager) on 07818405172 or email Beth.ford@nhs.net

To achieve our Trust objectives, we prioritise the development of our staff. To support this, the following opportunities are available:

• Protected CPD time for registered staff
• Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
• Leadership and Management development programmes
• Coaching and mentoring opportunities
• A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
• Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
• A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
• Individual professional development programmes

Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:

• Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
• Free DBS checks where required
• Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare vouchers

The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.

The Trust reserves the right to close this advert once a sufficient number of applications have been submitted. It is encouraged that you complete the application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.
We are committed to diversity and equality of employment including the employment of current and former service users.

If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses.

The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment process. Vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an exemption applies.

Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644

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.