Clinical Nurse Specialist - Abbeygate Ward
Is it your passion to work creatively to provide Mental Health support to older adults on an inpatient ward within Wedgwood House? Would you like to work in a dynamic, creative and committed multi-disciplinary team? Are you a highly motivated, compassionate and dedicated mental health professional?
We are excited to have an opportunity for a clinical nurse specialist to join our established team in Bury St Edmunds.
You must be able to demonstrate a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach to working with our service users.
As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking audits whilst promoting quality care, working collaboratively with individuals and other supporting agencies to manage needs on discharge from hospital as well as leading the team by example to demonstrate high quality care.
Main duties of the job
This role will give you the time and facilities to make a difference. You will have the ability to offer and support the team with person-centred care whilst building trusting relationships to increase engagement with individuals suffering from severe mental illness during the admission process. The main duties are:
* Monitoring patients mental state and to support formulating working diagnoses, with effective treatment plans, developed by the MDT.
* Working alongside the MDT to promote pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment plans for a range of mental health conditions such as psychotic disorders, affective disorders, insomnia, personality disorders and anxiety disorders and organic diagnosis.
* Monitoring the effectiveness of assessment and treatment
* Evaluate and promote the writing of collaborative care plans, support discharge plans and provide assurance of the quality of care that is offered to the older adult.
* Work collaboratively within and across the MDT and other agencies.
* Manage and hold responsibility of complex cases.
* Clinical leadership for the staff within the ward team
In turn we will provide you with regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We provide a full induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.
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 nursing 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 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
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
* a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
* career progression
* starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
* NHS discounts and many more
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
* RMN or equivalent professional qualification
* Non-Medical Independent Prescriber.
* 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.
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.
£46,148 to £52,809 a yeargross per annum
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