The Clinical Nurse Specialist role is responsible for supporting the Bromley Mental Health Hub in the integration of the Mental Health Pathway and to ensure no overlap in service provision whilst playing a key role in monitoring and evaluating the quality of care delivered locally.
The post holder must be a team player and be able to lead in areas of clinical practice and development. They will be responsible for working independently, managing a small caseload of clients, always ensuring safe and effective clinical practices.
The post holder will be expected to provide effective leadership for a multi-disciplinary clinical team, delivering high quality service within the resources available.
The post holder is expected to have considerable experience in Mental Health assessment and formulation, management, and clinical risk.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:
1. Supporting clinicians in identifying training and support needs.
2. Identifying and leading relevant service developments using recognised frameworks (e.g., Quality improvement).
3. Oversight of referrals, assessment, and treatment.
4. Completing Dialog assessments as needed.
5. Working with patients and team members to support engagement with appropriate services and treatment, which may include onward referral to secondary mental health services or signposting to other mental health services, social prescribers, third sector partners, voluntary services, wellbeing hubs, and community-based support groups.
6. Assisting clients to access community support by signposting to the most appropriate service.
7. Contributing to the effective screening of patients referred.
8. Challenging ways of working which are not in accordance with best practice and promoting a culture of change in the service.
9. Ensuring that assessment and treatment is based on NICE guidance and current best practice.
10. Ensuring excellent communication with key stakeholders.
11. Identifying performance monitoring and management needs and liaising with the team manager to address.
12. Providing line management and supervision of relevant staff.
13. Ensuring that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.
14. Taking a lead on management of complex cases and supporting staff in the management of such cases.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages, working in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector through our new provider collaboratives. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools, and people's homes. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
* We're Kind
* We're Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Trust's success will be dependent on all managers playing an active role to ensure existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation. Managers will be expected to:
1. Ensure that systems are in place to coordinate information about the take-up of the services and to establish unmet needs and action plans to address those.
2. Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team, reflecting Trust and local priorities and ensuring staff have access to appropriate training and development.
3. Coordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery.
4. Communicate regularly through team meetings, briefings, clinical forums, and individually with team members, providing an opportunity for two-way feedback.
5. Ensure that service response to patient experience feedback is provided in a timely manner.
6. Undertake other duties delegated by the Service Line Manager in keeping with the scope and authority of the job description.
7. Ensure, through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement, and high-quality service delivery.
8. Ensure care is locally delivered, at the right time, and is service user/carer focused.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
* Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse educated to degree, Masters level, or have other relevant experience.
* Specialist knowledge of trauma-informed care and its application.
* Advanced understanding of the mental health needs of adults.
* Working knowledge of appropriate assessment tools.
* Evidence of continuing professional and personal development.
Desirable
* Able to demonstrate advanced understanding of health inequalities amongst marginalised groups.
* Practice Nurse Advocate training/qualification.
Experience
Essential
* Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings.
* Highly extensive experience and significant post-registration experience in working with people with mental health needs.
* Experience of providing a range of evidence-based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness.
* Experience of leadership and development of junior colleagues.
* Evidence of interdisciplinary/multi-agency working experience including primary care and community/voluntary sector.
* Experience of supporting learning and developmental needs.
Desirable
* Considerable experience in the assessment and management of clinical risk.
* Proficient in clinical audits and research.
* Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance.
Skills and Professional Knowledge
Essential
* Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers, and other stakeholders.
* An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
* Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction, and holding others to account.
* Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision that is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.
Desirable
* Knowledge of the key drivers behind community mental health care.
* Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction, and holding others to account.
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Beckenham Beacon/Rachel Notley
Beckenham
BR3 4PP
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