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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to providing high-quality and specialist care to our service users and are recognised for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are thrilled to present an exceptional fixed-term senior nursing opportunity within the Southeast London Integrated Care System. We are actively seeking an experienced and autonomous nurse to join our LD and Autism (LDA) team, focusing on nursing care in STOMP and working towards reducing unnecessary psychotropic drugs for our primary care service users.
A secondment opportunity is available for current SLaM and Oxleas employees. Joining our team provides an exciting opportunity to actively contribute to the reduction of psychotropic drug use among individuals with learning disabilities and autism, enhancing their overall well-being.
Main duties of the job
If you are looking for a challenge and ready to undertake a specialist role then this may be just the job for you:
* Work closely with the SEL Learning Disability and Autism Prescribing Advisors, nurses, clinical psychologists, and behaviour practitioners to support service users during STOMP in primary care settings and assist in the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) triaging and referral process.
* Collaborate with the primary care workforce to provide nursing care for service users undergoing STOMP.
* Travel to home visits, community placements, and various departments for meetings.
* Conduct specialist nursing assessments, including risk assessment, formulation, management planning, implementation, and evaluation of clinical care.
* Work jointly with other professionals within the Learning Disability Partnership to ensure prompt and appropriate service delivery.
* Support STOMP service users transitioning from MHLD into primary care GPs and local service providers and monitor their physical and mental well-being during medicine optimisation and STOMP in primary care settings.
* Provide support, reassurance, referrals, and signposting to service users and carers who are clinically unstable.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Degree or master's qualification and knowledge acquired through experience or training. Registration with the NMC.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team and extensive experience of working with people with a learning disability, autism, and mental health problems.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential criteria
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Knowledge of Mental and Physical health and people with Learning Disabilities and the inter dynamics of these.
* Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
* Ability to adapt/change practice to be able to deliver the best service to teams with various cultures and differing operating environments.
* Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary.
Please note:
* All applications for this post will need to be made online.
* Read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
* The closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
* Once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
* Should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful.
* Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* Should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
* We are a smoke-free Trust.
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