Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of 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 look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Job overview
NHS England/Improvement has developed a new Framework to support local systems in implementing the NHS Long Term Plan's vision for transforming community mental health care. This Framework sets out how the LTP's vision for a new place-based community mental health model can be realised, and how we can modernise community mental health services to shift to whole person, whole population health approaches.
The role of Clinical Practice Specialist is fundamental to the developing of these innovative new ways of working. The role will support the ongoing development and mobilisation of integrated mental health service offer with a specialist clinical focus on the discharge and step down pathway, Assertive in reach into the community and supporting the flow within the team especially with difficult to reach patients. The role provides and promotes flexible and responsive access to assessment, treatment and/or onward bridging to community resources and support, in line with evidence based interventions for people with serious mental illness. The role will help people to focus on achievable goals and access local community resources as part of their recovery and care plan.
The service offer will be for people over 18 years who are experiencing mental health difficulties but with a specific focus on: the step down and in reach pathways being developed and implemented into community clinical protocols and models.
Main duties of the job
* Provide follow up care for service users who are difficult to engage or struggling to access care and support. In addition, support the teams clinical thinking and decision making as part of the step down and discharge pathways within the teams.
* Work closely with colleagues in specialist community mental health services to ensure smooth transitions between teams and services and facilitate an 'easy in, easy out' approach to improve access to evidence based interventions.
* Provide a responsive place based care and support for clients in immediate crisis where their needs/difficulties are best met or understood within a biopsychosocial model and away from physical health setting ( A&E).
* Offer professionals support which can be accessed by community partners such as the police, paramedics and GPs who are seeking clinical advice around mental health crisis or when use of s136 is being considered.
* Use evidence based practice to provide assessment and interventions that promotes the engagement of the client in treatment, to assist them into recovery.
* Share in the clinical management of a defined caseload and develop an interface with other services and agencies so that service users are offered focussed and co-ordinated packages of care which are appropriate to their needs.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To work in collaboration with Consultant Psychiatrists and other lead professionals for the Adult Mental Health and Social Care team.
* Provides a brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health needs or support.
* Provide care or support via telephone/Video or face-to-face assessments.
* Work closely with other mental health services and agencies; such as the police, ambulance, local authority and third sector.
* Using a range of brief solution-focused interventions, to empower people, carers and their families in decision making; diverting to a range of health and social care resources for support.
* Communicate with service users and callers at their level of understanding, culture and background. Remain courteous and professional at all times.
* Provide skilled and detailed triage, full assessment and intervention to clients for all follow up or new referrals to the team. In the event of support during mental health crisis, re directing to the most appropriate services.
* Offer support and advise to carers in prevention and management of crisis situation.
* Provide clinical advice, education, support and training to team colleagues, CMHTs, primary healthcare teams, other professionals, service users and carers on the management of mental health problems.
* Deliver care that is evidence based, reflecting current best practice and research.
* To maintain safe and acceptable standards of practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
* Participate in the development, mentorship and clinical supervision of staff and students.
* Practice in a way that minimises dependency and promotes recovery.
* Demonstrate a sound understanding of the legal and ethical issues in caring for the mentally ill.
* In particular, demonstrating sound understanding of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and the Mental Health Act (2007) and its use in a non-mental health setting.
* Provide clinical advice and support to other professionals about risk management and mental health.
* Improve and maintain working relationships with 111 clinicians, Mental Health Assessment Teams, HTT Clinicians, GPs, other professional and outside third sector agencies working collaboratively to ensure effective referral, treatment and discharge.
* To keep professionally updated with ongoing developments in mental health though an evidence based approach to delivering high quality mental health services by evaluating, updating, imitating and/or participating in training, audit and research.
* The post holder will be expected to adopt a flexible attitude to take account of the changing needs of the service as dictated by the service user and organisational lead.
* Continue the promotion of a culture of evidence-based practice and support specialist practitioners in their role.
* Reducing and managing risks to service users through collaborative working together with service users/carers in their treatments and adherence to their care-plans.
* Management of service user's prescriptions and ensuring that medicines management policies and procedures are adhered to all the time.
Person specification
Qualifications / Registrations
Essential criteria
* NMC registered qualification (RMN) and non-medical prescribing qualification (V300)
* Current as RMN registration with NMC
* Substantial post-registration experience within mental health nursing specialty
Desirable criteria
* Project Management qualification
* Master's Degree (MSC/MBA) or equivalent experience
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
* Demonstrate an ability to communicate service-related information to senior managers, staff, and external agencies/partners
* Demonstrate ability for operational planning and business planning
* Ability to give formal presentations/manage and reconcile conflicting views where there are significant barriers to acceptance or understanding
* A commitment to the engagement and involvement of service user in delivering a high-quality service
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.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
* Clinical Practice Specialist (PDF, 240.4KB)
* Clinical Practice Specialist (PDF, 261.8KB)
* Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)
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