Clinical Specialist Nurse

The South Camden R&R Team provides community-based secondary health care and social care support to deliver effective recovery pathways with adults who are living with symptoms of, or are recovering from episodes of psychosis.

Dependent on the needs of the individual and carers, this can be short or long-term support and includes co-producing recovery plans, developing collaborative relapse prevention strategies, longer-term specialist treatment, and complex case management provision.

We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse to join our highly skilled and established multidisciplinary team in our trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and evidence-based clinical approach to care. With robust clinical supervision and team support, you will offer a caseload of people with complex needs creative support and signposting to empower them to live well. As well as delivering specialist health interventions and being involved in assessing and reviewing care and support needs, you will take part in adult safeguarding, provide statutory reports and assessments, be involved in supporting colleagues and supervising others, play a part in team development, and be an advocate in supporting service users address the inequalities they may experience.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Specialist Nurse, you will be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of therapy staff, medics, psychologists, support workers, social workers, welfare and employment workers, and supported by a clinical team manager. You will keywork a caseload of people with complex needs and ensure holistic assessment and care delivery through a variety of direct activities and through signposting and liaison with partner agencies and community offers as their needs change through the pathways. This will include clinical and social care delivery, working in collaboration with Local Authority colleagues.

You will be an expert in medications and be able to administer depot medications in clinics and in people's homes and support and monitor treatment plans. You will support people to access care for their physical and social health to address isolation and health inequalities.

You will produce social circumstances reports for Tribunal and managers' hearings for patients on sections of the mental health act, and you will take an active role in undertaking adult safeguarding enquiries and be part of multiagency networks to protect vulnerable adults and their children.

Outside of your caseload, you will act as a duty worker and help run clinics on a rota basis. You will play an active part in team meetings, clinical decision-making, supervising junior staff and students, and supporting your peers.

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. Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.

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 falls 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

As a clinical nurse specialist in the South Camden R&R Team, you will perform duties and hold the following duties and main responsibilities (this list is not exhaustive):

• Work as part of a Multidisciplinary Team within the R&R Team in the delivery of holistic care for and with service users.
• Collaboratively complete Dialog + assessment and care planning with service users.
• Ensure Dialog + mandatory 6 months reviews are completed to monitor outcomes.
• Hold a defined caseload of service users and manage their care delivery.
• Complete thorough risk assessment and formulation for service users on your caseload and keep these updated.
• Raise safeguarding concerns and act as enquiry officer for your cases and any delegated cases.
• Ensure all incidents, near misses or actual are reported to your manager and reported through Datix.
• Take on Duty Person responsibilities as assigned and attend and occasionally chair daily morning huddles and weekly clinical meetings.
• Maintain sufficient contacts with service users face to face, telephone, and other media, completing diary appointments and outcoming them promptly.
• Make timely and accurate case note entries.
• Communicate effectively with MDT both in and outside meetings and liaise with other statutory services and partnership agencies.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification Education/Qualifications

• 2 years Post registration experience.
• Evidence of further post-registration relevant training/ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice.
• Mentorship or recognised teaching and assessing certificate or willingness to undertake.
• Other advanced training i.e., AMHP/NMP/CBT in Psychosis.

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrable experience in a senior specialist capacity caring for people with psychosis in a community care or inpatient setting.
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with complex mental health and/or substance misuse problems and the impact on families.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the Mental Health legislation, its application, and use in practice.
• Demonstrate an ability to liaise with other agencies, carers, and the service user's wider support network.
• An awareness of research and evidence of its application in the workplace.
• Evidence of collaboration in quality improvement initiatives.

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work autonomously and to deputise for senior staff in a variety of roles when required to do so.
• Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches, storing data and retrieving data, producing reports, etc.
• Demonstrable experience of adaptability to change.

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.

North London NHS Foundation Trust, South Camden Rehabilitation & Recovery Team,

The Peckwater Centre, 6, Peckwater Street, Kentish Town.

Depending on experience per annum incl of HCAS.

Contract

Permanent.

Working pattern

Full-time.

Reference number

455-CANDI-1267.

Job locations

North London NHS Foundation Trust, South Camden Rehabilitation & Recovery Team,

The Peckwater Centre, 6, Peckwater Street, Kentish Town.