Lead Nurse Eating Disorders

Lead Nurse Eating Disorders

The closing date is 23 July 2026

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate, and highly skilled Lead Nurse to join our Children and Adolescent Eating Disorder (CAED) Service. This is a pivotal leadership role within a specialist multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality, evidence-based care to children and young people experiencing eating disorders and their families.

As Lead Nurse you will bring advanced clinical expertise, strong leadership capability, and a passion for delivering outstanding care within a collaborative, recovery-focused service.

The Lead Nurse will provide advanced clinical assessment, formulation and intervention for children and adolescents with eating disorders, including complex and high-risk presentations, and will also serve as a clinical resource for the team, ensuring care is aligned with best practice, national guidance and evidence-based models.

Working alongside the Team Manager, you will provide strong clinical and professional leadership to the nursing workforce, oversee workforce development – including recruitment, retention and succession planning – and promote a culture of learning, reflection and continuous improvement, supporting staff well‑being and professional growth.

• Provide professional and clinical nursing leadership across the service and contribute to the development and review of the Trust’s Nursing Strategy.
• Develop and deliver specialist training, education and development opportunities for nursing staff and other professionals.
• Lead on promoting clinical innovation and delivering continual development of nursing practice based on evidence and relevant research.
• Act as Practice and Cost Effectiveness Domain lead for the service.
• Ensure excellence in nursing practice and that service delivery is based on NICE guidelines and related guidance.
• Act as service lead in the area appropriate to the service.
• Ensure all nursing teams meet the Code of Professional Conduct and regulation requirements set out by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Support and advise managers in developing supervision for CAMHS nurses in the designated area.
• Serve as the point of contact and nursing resource on all nursing issues relating to the designated area.
• Provide specialist nursing advice and interventions for a caseload of young people with complex needs and their families, working closely with the Service Manager and Clinical Heads of Service to deliver a person-centred service.
• Provide expert nursing advice to patients, carers and staff.
• Develop and review clinical care pathways and clinical governance documentation.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined‑up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older‑person’s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

We are happy to talk flexible working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

• Recognised professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing (e.g. RMN).
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Appropriate leadership qualification (at diploma level) or equivalent vocational experience.
• Educated to master’s degree level or willingness to undertake appropriate training.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust