Main area: Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
Job ref: 455-CANDI-1249
Employer: 455 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Lowther Road
Town: London
Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 per annum Inclu Inner London HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/03/2025 23:59
Clinical Specialist Nurse
Band 6
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
* Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
* Take a trauma-informed approach to everything we do.
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team
The North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team provides care for service users living with severe mental illness in the North of the Borough. The team model works flexibly and creatively to engage service users and provide a high standard of care.
We are looking for motivated, energetic, ambitious registered nurses who are ready to take on this new challenge to work in a creative way to engage mental health service users in the North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team. If you are that nurse, then look no further.
You will work with a team of highly skilled multi-disciplinary professionals in a specialised mental health team to support care delivery.
You will be someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us deliver our Trust priorities:
* Early and effective intervention
* Helping people to live well
* Research and innovation
* Keeping our service users, carers, and staff safe
Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Specialist Nurse, you will provide clinical nursing leadership, working alongside a multi-disciplined team of therapy staff, psychiatry, and psychology, supported by a clinical manager. You will keywork a small caseload and ensure holistic assessment and care delivery through various activities. 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 injections both on-site and in people's homes. You will produce social circumstances reports for Tribunal and managers' hearings for patients under the Mental Health Act and take an active role in safeguarding processes.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
The postholder will be aligned with our Values:
* We Work Together
* We Keep Things Simple
* We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team, you will perform duties and hold the following responsibilities:
* Work as part of a Multidisciplinary Team in the delivery of holistic care for service users.
* Collaboratively complete Dialogue + assessment and care planning with service users.
* Complete thorough risk assessment and formulation for service users on your caseload.
* Raise safeguarding concerns and act as enquiry officer for your cases and any delegated cases.
* Take on Duty Person/ Intake duty responsibilities as assigned and chair daily stand-up meetings.
* Maintain sufficient contacts with service users face-to-face, by telephone, and other media, completing diary appointments and following up promptly.
* Make timely and accurate case note entries.
* Undertake care act assessments for all your caseload on Local Authority System (LAS) with support from Local Authority Social workers.
* Undertake safeguarding enquiries and act as a SAM when trained.
* Manage medications for the whole team alongside other nurses and administer depot injections safely, at the centre and in service users' homes while monitoring their compliance, efficacy, and side effects. Ensure documentation is accurate both on the chart and on Rio.
* Work within MHA (1983) and MCA (2005) legal frameworks.
* Take lead in infection prevention and control.
* Support student nurses and other students as a supervisor and assessor.
* Take on Lead or Champion Roles for specific tasks or areas of the service.
* Complete all statutory and mandatory training in a timely manner.
* Identify learning needs and discuss with your supervisor/line manager.
* You will be an agile worker able to prioritise and reprioritise to manage demand and flow.
* Be proactive and take initiative to improve service delivery, using quality improvement methodology.
* Use evidence-based practice to deliver care (e.g., NICE guidelines, Royal College of Psychiatry).
Person specification
Education/Qualification
* Registered Health Professional - Nursing (all registrations).
* Evidence of further post-registration relevant training/ongoing academic study relevant to the area of practice.
* Evidence of Level 2 Safeguarding Adults and Children.
Knowledge and Experience
* Extensive experience of working in a community MH Service.
* Demonstrate a clear understanding of the Mental Capacity Act legislation, its application, and use in practice with people with dementia.
* Demonstrate an understanding of risk together with an ability to evaluate and contain risk with reference to the individual, staff, and carers.
* Evidence of participation in service development/Quality Improvement projects.
Skills and Ability
* Qualified and Registered RNMH.
* Experience working at Band 6 or above.
* Experience working in an in-patient or community mental health team.
* Excellent communication skills, Risk assessment Skills, Writing Social Circumstances Reports, Good understanding of MH Act, MCA, and Care Act.
* Good understanding and ability to deliver care for physical health conditions in people with SMI.
* Compassionate and person-centred approach to care.
* Evidence of recent CPD activities.
* Demonstrate reflectivity as a practitioner.
* Up-to-date mandatory training record.
* Post-qualification studies - SAM - AMHP.
* Experience using Rio and LAS systems.
* Experience applying for packages of care and attending funding panels.
* Assessing Nursing or other students, Quality Improvement skills/knowledge.
If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification and job description and would like to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust, we would be interested in receiving your application.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we reserve the right to close any vacancies before the stated closing date. Therefore, please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
In line with NHS protocols, only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We regret that it is not possible to contact all applicants for every vacancy. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment, please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system.
Please note, in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of North London NHS Foundation Trust.
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
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.
Name: Yasrat Bakare
Job title: Team Manager
Email address: yasrat.bakare@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0203 3176370
Alternative Contact: Dave Fearon, Head of Service, dave.fearon2@nhs.net, 07810 057 793
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