Clinical Nurse Specialist

To provide clinical leadership to the clinical team in the care, treatment and therapy of the client group, with a clear focus on clinical risk and its management.

To influence, lead and motivate staff at all levels within the clinical environment to deliver high quality care.

To provide expertise, support and advice to clinical practitioners regarding all aspects of clinical care including implementing best practise based on evidence based practice and National Guidance.

To sustain the clinically based training programme aimed at the development of staff within the clinical environment.

To provide information, education and support for service users and their carers re coping with diagnosis and treatments.

To interpret national guidelines and relevant research to inform local practice and procedures to achieve best practice.

To maintain own expert status by developing training and improvement projects underpinned by research and legislation.

To be member of the Trust Senior Nursing team and to contribute to relevant forums and meetings.

To take part in and facilitate audits relevant to patient care.

To take part in RCA reviews and implement any lessons learnt from incidents and complaints within the clinical area.

The post holder will need to be able to fulfil full physical restraint.

Main duties of the job

Provide advice and leadership to clinical staff in areas related to clinical care including, treatment, therapy and clinical risk assessment and management

Provide consultation support and supervision to teams on issues relating to nursing practice.

Be a role model in initiating, facilitating and promoting excellence in Evidence Based Nursing Practice

Work alongside the both the clinical care team and relevant teams including governance and research department to utilise information and data to support the implementation and embedding of best practice.

Develop process and systems to share learning from local and national research and National guidance

Ensure any learning is embedded and sustained in clinical services

Clinical

Seek out and receive appropriate level training to keep abreast of changing trends and practices

Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures contributing to policy development via Governance processes, particularly in relation to clinical care

Demonstrate a sound knowledge of current legislation and policy that underpins mental healthcare delivery including all aspects relating to the clinical area of practice.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job responsibilities

As part of NSFT Neuro Developmental pathway we are introducing a new front door clinical team to process and manage new referrals into the pathway.

The Band 7 will be responsible for ensure all referrals are responded to in a timely manner. Referrals should be screened and outcome within a time frame as requested by the ICB.

Declined referrals should be communicated promptly providing an outcome, recommendations and communicated to referrer and parent in a timely manner.

Senior Management will be provide expectations of amounts of cases to be screened weekly.

For role diversity additional training will be provided on the assessment and review of patients on the ADHD Pathway.

As Band 7 you will have line management responsibilities for staff.

As band 7, you will be expected to report monthly, assisted by data team on number of cases screened and outcomes.

Person Specification Qualifications

• RMN or equivalent professional qualification
• Study experience at Masters level, study at that level or clinical experience.

Experience

• Extensive experience at which has required supervision and mentorship of others
• Extensive experience of practice within clinical area with proven track record in delivering high quality care.
• Experience of implementing evidence based practice and or service improvement initiative.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.