Job summary
- Main area
- All Age Eating Disorder Service
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-CEN2491-LW
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Oxford Annex
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Eating Disorder Nurse
Band 6
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
Are you passionate about making a real difference? Do you want to join an innovative, forward-thinking service dedicated to supporting people experiencing eating disorders to recover, rebuild, and realise their full potential? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
We’re looking for a caring, compassionate, and highly motivated individual who brings creativity, flexibility, and enthusiasm to their work. In this rewarding role, you’ll carry out specialist assessments, deliver therapeutic interventions, and provide essential physical healthcare for people presenting with eating disorders within the Central locality.
Main duties of the job
You’ll become part of a dynamic, supportive multi-disciplinary team committed to delivering exceptional care to children, adults, and their families and carers. Our team includes psychological professionals, nurses, dietitians, and a Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Lead—offering a rich, collaborative environment where your skills will be valued and your voice heard.
While experience in eating disorders across all age groups is desirable, it’s your passion, curiosity, and commitment to developing expertise in this specialist field that matter most. We’ll support you every step of the way with regular clinical and professional supervision, alongside encouragement and opportunities to engage in continuing professional development.
This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week), working Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm—allowing you to build a fulfilling career while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
This is an exciting time to before part of our specialist all-age service. If you’re ready to grow professionally, work alongside inspiring colleagues, and make a meaningful impact on people’s lives every day, we would love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level qualification, RMN or equivalent such as Qualified Social Worker or occupational therapy
- Information technology skills sufficient to the undertaking of the post.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An ability to think systemically and holistically
- Demonstrable Knowledge and skills in evidence based needs led assessments, of highly complex and co-morbid presentations of children, young people, their families and carers.
- Demonstrable Knowledge and skills in evidence based therapeutic interventions relevant to the needs of this client group.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of an ability to effectively manage own workload and able to work autonomously.
- Working within a team and /or multi-agency arenas.
- Post Qualification Experience in a related field.
Skills
Essential criteria
- An ability to be flexible and innovative to adapt to the changing needs of the developing service.
- Demonstrable ability to communicate to clients, their families and professionals sensitive and often difficult to receive information, using various methods including verbal, non-verbal, written and presentation skills.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vicky Robinson
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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