Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist
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 works flexibly and creatively to engage service users and provide a high standard of care.
We are looking for motivated, energetic, ambitious registered nurses ready to take on this new challenge to engage mental health service users in a creative way. If you are that nurse, then look no further.
You will work with a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team to support care delivery.
You will embody the right values and behaviours to help us deliver our Trust priorities:
1. Early and effective intervention
2. Helping people to live well
3. Research and innovation
4. Keeping our service users, carers, and staff safe
As a Clinical Specialist Nurse, you will provide clinical nursing leadership, working alongside a multi-disciplinary 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 includes clinical and social care delivery in collaboration with Local Authority colleagues. You will be an expert in medications and 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.
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. We will ensure equity of outcome for all with our partners in North London and each borough.
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 organization by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
Why NLFT?
* We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers' programmes 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 Are Kind
* We Are Respectful
* We Work Together
* We Keep Things Simple
* We Empower
* We Are Proudly Diverse
To meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required to work at different locations within Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington.
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team, you will perform duties and hold the following responsibilities:
1. Work as part of a Multidisciplinary Team in the delivery of holistic care for service users.
2. Collaboratively complete Dialogue + assessment and care planning with service users.
3. Complete thorough risk assessments and formulations for service users on your caseload.
4. Raise safeguarding concerns and act as enquiry officer for your cases and any delegated cases.
5. Take on Duty Person/In-take duty responsibilities as assigned and chair daily stand-up meetings.
6. Maintain sufficient contacts with service users face to face, via telephone, and other media, completing diary appointments and following up promptly.
7. Make timely and accurate case note entries.
8. Undertake care act assessments for all your caseload on Local Authority System (LAS) with the support of Local Authority Social Workers.
9. Undertake safeguarding enquiries and act as a SAM when trained.
10. 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 accurate documentation both on the chart and on Rio.
11. Work within MHA (1983) and MCA (2005) legal frameworks.
12. Take lead in infection prevention and control.
13. Support student nurses and other students as supervisor and assessor.
14. Supervise junior staff.
15. Deputise team manager.
16. Take on Lead or Champion Roles for specific tasks or areas of the service.
17. Complete all statutory and mandatory training in a timely manner.
18. Identify learning needs and discuss them with your supervisor/line manager.
19. You will be an agile worker able to prioritise and reprioritise to manage demand and flow.
20. Be proactive and take initiative to improve service delivery, using quality improvement methodology.
21. Use evidence-based practice to deliver care (e.g., NICE guidelines, Royal College of Psychiatry).
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025.
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