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The Role
TESS is a pan Lanarkshire service, based within the Buchanan Centre in Coatbridge. The service offers psychologically led, innovative treatment to people living in the community and works directly with adults and their families/carers who have severe eating disorders resulting in complex needs. The team is multi-disciplinary in nature and the successful candidate will have day to day management accountability for a number of professions including Dietetics, Psychology, Nursing and Occupational Therapy.
The post holder will carry overall responsibility for the day to day operational management of a Specialist Tertiary Eating Disorder Service and will work collaboratively with the Consultant Psychologist who will have overall accountability for the clinical leadership of the service and lead on the strategic vision of TESS. The post holder will be required to work in partnership with the professional leads for each discipline.
Additional Information Specific to the Role
- To provide day to day operational management within the multi-disciplinary tertiary eating disorder team.
- To be accountable for ensuring all systems in relation to rostering, absence management, annual leave, training etc are maintained.
- Ensure clinical and managerial supervision is in place for all qualified staff.
- To be the first point of contact for all team members with regards to support, advice or guidance around day to day work related issues.
- To investigate and deal with any informal/formal complaints or concerns.
- To work in partnership with the Consultant Psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrist to ensure the delivery of a psychologically informed, clinically effective and high quality service for people with eating disorders.
- To support the Consultant Psychologist to align the application of national policies to meet local need.
- To lead and implement on service development or quality improvement projects in partnership with the Consultant Psychologist.
- To carry a defined clinical caseload of referred patients.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
Registered Nurse with valid NMC Registration
Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice.
Management qualification or equivalent gained through experience and continuous professional development
Further education/evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days/courses/post graduate qualification
The post holder will possess excellent team-working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative
Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills.
Effective time management skills
Working knowledge of basic information technology
It would be great if you also have
Community nursing experience Management of multi disciplinary team |
Knowledge of I.T systems Knowledge of, and use of holistic risk assessment |
Contract type
Permanent
Full time
37.5 hours
Location and Working Pattern
This role will be based in Buchanan Centre, Coatbridge.
The working pattern for this role Monday to Friday; 9:00-5:00
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!
Please contact Yvonne Twaddle, Service Manager, Mental Health on Yvonne.Twaddle@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator on david.murray3@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
(Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee Counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.
Additional Information for Applicants
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
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