Clinical Specialist Nurse Islington North Core Team

Clinical Specialist Nurse Islington North Core Team

Working as a member of a multidisciplinary community Mental Health Team the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with a primary diagnosis of psychosis. The team is looking to recruit an individual who can work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team structure.

The post holder may also, on occasions, be requested to undertake management tasks, deputising for the Team manager as required, and will take a lead on mentoring and supervising others within their service area.

The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines, evidence based best practice and to maximise service users recovery and re-enablement.

The post holder will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental health problems.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base of health and psycho-social interventions for service users with a diagnosis of psychosis and complex needs. Team members benefit from a supportive team environment with clinical supervision, peer support and training

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be a qualified nurse with experience of supporting individuals (and their families) with psychosis and Bipolar Affective Disorder in a community setting. You will be expected to provide strong nurse leadership, with an emphasis on care planning, partnership working and risk management.

The post will involve providing care coordination and nursing interventions to a defined caseload of service users as well as contributing to the team depot clinic and duty rotas.

The successful post holder must have a passion for delivering high quality care and for supporting, managing and improving nursing functions in the team, including improving the physical health outcomes for our service users.

Candidates will be well supported by the R&R Management Team, the Community Matron and the nursing Directorate.

For further details / informal visits contact: Stephen Bradley (Service Manager) on

Catherine Namonda (Team Manager) on

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designatedexpertise, in accordance professional conduct To embody a population health approach to the role, contributing expertise tothe teams community programme To supervise, appraise, support and guide Nursing Associate(s) and/or MentalHealth Practitioner(s). To provide expert, autonomous and specialist clinical practice within amultidisciplinary team and to include initial assessment and formulation usinga range of mental health or other specialist tools. To do make appropriate judgements when required to do so about owncaseload. To assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care in negotiation with serviceusers, carers, and other services, considering the needs of a diversecommunity. To undertake key working responsibilities. To apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence-basedinterventions in accordance with the requirements of service line carepathways. To contribute to multidisciplinary team decisions at the point of dischargeand or transfer of the service user.Better Mental Health. Better Lives. Better Communities. To participate in and provide a specialist nursing perspective tomultidisciplinary team meetings/case discussions. To maintain contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trustand the relevant professional body. To assess and manage risk on a continuous basis, in line with Trust policy. To coproduce support with service users and with their consent, whereappropriate, seek the cooperation of friends, relatives, carers. To provide and support other members of staff in their assessment andmanagement of service user care needs through reviewing initial datacollection; monitoring of their progress; feedback; discussion and reports atsupport planning To identify carers and to offer carers assessments and review carers careplans. To support the assessment of physical health care needs of service usersby team members and ensure that on-going physical health monitoring /review of service users takes place. To provide relevant information for service users relating to healthpromotion and wellbeing. To be able to demonstrate and explain clinical reasoning in relation toprofessional input to a service users care plan when required to membersof the team, trainees, or others external to the organisation. To recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in linewith Trust policies. To at all times to act in accordance with trust policies in relation to riskassessment and safety planning, contributing to comprehensiveassessments of risk and monitoring as appropriate. To have up to date and detailed knowledge, understanding andexperience of mental health legislation as required by the service line. To be aware of personal accountability and responsibility in respect offensuring that cleanliness standards and practices are maintained in theclinical environment and that these are compliant with PEAT, The HygieneCode, CQC requirements and Trust Infection Control protocols andprocedure. To follow Trust policy in promptly reporting all accidents and incidents. To undertake investigations when called upon to do so ornominating/supervising relevant others in this role. To be responsible for the administration, carriage, and storage of drugs inaccordance with relevant policies and professional guidelines. To review and recommend medication changes as appropriate inconsultation with medical staff re efficacy and possible side effects and todevelop user centred medication concordance. To undertake and lead where appropriate, in the evaluation and audit ofprofessional interventions, clients and the service.5.Operational Responsibilities To maintain confidentiality of information, in accordance with Trust policy.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Qualified and Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Experience working within community mental health team
• Other advanced relevant training i.e. Mentoring /safeguarding / Phlebotomy etc
• Sound practical experience of patient / service user care and engagement within the wider context of the organisation
• Practical experience of mentoring or supervising students and junior staff - including providing clinical supervision
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of utilising a variety of assessment tools currently used in practice in relation to determining risk and assessing / planning care needs

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skill (E)
• Able to work on own initiative(E)
• To demonstrate and understand the recovery and rehabilitation philosophy(E)

Experience

• Demonstrable experience caring for people with mental health issues in an in-patient, community or substance misuse care setting(E
• Previous experience of working in mental health or a substance misuse setting(E)
• To demonstrate a sound knowledge base in relation to factors that cause mental illness or addictions and preferred treatment methods(E

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.

£46,419 to £55,046 a yearPer annum Inclu HCAS