Site Mulberry 3, Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge CB21 5EF Town Fulbourn Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
The role is suitable for Registered Nurses who have successfully completed mentor training as required by the NMC.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is a clinical leader who ensures patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. Working in partnership with the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will embed evidence based clinical practice within the team through implementation and facilitation of education, training, and skills development for nurses. The post holder will provide inspirational specialist nursing leadership within the team, including specialist assessments and nursing interventions to service users.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide a clear focus for clinical leadership and to be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high standard of holistic, patient-centred care.
2. To use a range of techniques to ensure, set, and monitor standards of clinical practice, audit, research and teaching to set, monitor, and continually improve standards of care and patient experience.
3. To lead on nursing practice development including the development, and or updating of clinical guidelines, policy and procedure that relates to the practice setting.
4. To support the development and clinical learning infrastructure providing advice and guidance which ensures that all newly qualified nurses receive preceptorship and that those who mentor and support them are well prepared and regularly updated.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide a clear focus for clinical leadership and to be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high standard of holistic, patient-centred care.
2. To use a range of techniques to ensure, set, and monitor standards of clinical practice, audit, research and teaching to set, monitor, and continually improve standards of care and patient experience.
3. To lead on nursing practice development including the development, and or updating of clinical guidelines, policy and procedure that relates to the practice setting.
4. Demonstrate safe, compassionate, consistent, and appropriate practice and expert nursing advice using up to date knowledge, skills, clinical competence, and evidence, to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence changes, and promote health and best practice.
5. To teach and act as a facilitator, mentor, and supervisor to other staff. To develop and participate in the delivery of a clinical supervision structure/reflective practice for team members.
6. To support the development and clinical learning infrastructure providing advice and guidance which ensures that all newly qualified nurses receive preceptorship and that those who mentor and support them are well prepared and regularly updated.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Registered Nurse Mental Health/LD Nursing
* Completion of Mentorship Course
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Leadership Qualification
* Post graduate qualification relating to MH
* Teaching qualification ENB 998 or equivalent
Experience
* Experience of working alongside people with complex mental health/LD problems.
* Experience of supervising staff, clinically.
* Extensive experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated pathway.
* Extensive experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
* Extensive experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessment and formulation.
* Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies.
* Extensive understanding of clinical governance.
* Significant experience of supervision and mentoring of others, and in providing critical and constructive feedback.
* Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g., understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills.
* Experience of leading nursing staff or teams in practice improvement.
* Lived experience of mental health issues.
Skills & Abilities
* Advanced Clinical Skills in: assessment, planning and therapeutic intervention.
* Provision of specialist nursing advice in relation to care delivery.
* Ability to communicate in a clear and unambiguous way.
* Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
* Excellent ability to develop effective professional relationships with others (individuals and groups).
* Able to establish and maintain communication with individuals, families, carers and groups about difficult or complex matters.
* Develop own skills and knowledge and impart information to others to facilitate their development.
* Strong ability to innovate and implement change.
* Skills in influencing, empowering, developing and shaping the behaviours of others.
* IT skills and willingness to embrace and use new technology; able to use Word, PowerPoint, clinical systems, e-mail.
* The ability to multitask and mental adaptation to different unpredictable situations.
* Skills of assessing and interpreting service user conditions with appropriate actions.
* Ability to plan and organise complex activities or programmes requiring formulation and review.
* Ability to identify problems, review options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework.
* Advanced specialist knowledge of Nursing assessment, intervention and practice models relevant to the client group.
* Significant knowledge of NICE guidance and other National guidance relevant to delivery of care and safe nursing practice.
* Significant knowledge, awareness and understanding of Mental Health Law, including legislation of relevance to the setting, the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and Community Treatment Orders (CTO).
* Excellent understanding of the NMC Code and its application in practice.
* Significant understanding of safeguarding issues and responsibilities under relevant legislation.
* Knowledge of physical healthcare needs.
* Good understanding of NICE guidance and quality standards relevant to setting.
Physical Requirements
* Ability to travel across sites.
* Able to use IT equipment.
* Ability to carry out patient care including manual handling techniques.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
* Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
* Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
* Children’s community services in Peterborough;
* Ground-breaking research.
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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