Nurse Practitioner - Mental health/Substance misuse
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Nurse Prescriber/Enhanced Practitioner with an interest in mental health and substance misuse to work in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency primary care setting in North Cumbria. Applications are welcome from experienced Nurse Prescribers.
As an experienced and competent practitioner, there will be the opportunity to work within the primary care setting utilising a mental health service model. This offers an essential service for those patients presenting at GP practices with a variety of mental health problems and difficulties with substance misuse.
Main duties of the job
GP surgeries are often the first point of contact for people seeking mental health and support with substance misuse. The practitioner would assess, treat, and signpost those experiencing mild, moderate, and acute mental health problems.
The role enables people to access responsive interventions close to home in their community.
As part of a multi-professional team, the post holder will practice autonomously, whilst being accountable and self-directed in line with the relevant code of professional conduct.
To provide expert clinical advice, leadership, and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis, and advanced decision-making skills.
Monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research, and education.
Link in with other local services to improve access to appropriate healthcare. Have a good understanding of what services and resources are available to effectively signpost to a range of community-based options.
Complete specialist holistic assessment with patients supporting shared decision-making including self-management. Evidence-based brief biopsychosocial interventions will be provided where appropriate.
Work collaboratively with patients, carers, and their families networking with the wider multi-agency team such as GPs, Practice Nurses, Pharmacists, Social Prescribers, Recovery Steps, Voluntary and Third Sector Organisations.
About us
North Cumbria Primary Care Alliance (NCPC) is a clinically-led, not-for-profit company, where all of our GPs are employees, meaning that all financial risks, responsibilities, and liabilities sit with our not-for-profit limited company, rather than with individual partners. Our organisation is led collaboratively, with an efficient head office support function.
We run 6 practices across 16 sites in North Cumbria delivering services to a patient population of about 100,000 people. We are members of 3 PCNs, employ 430 staff, and work collaboratively across the practices, seeking to work at scale where this is of benefit.
Job responsibilities
GP surgeries are often the first point of contact for people seeking mental health and support with substance misuse. The practitioner would assess, treat, and signpost those experiencing mild, moderate, and acute mental health problems.
The role enables people to access responsive interventions close to home in their community. This way of working provides a person-centred approach with a focus on recovery.
As part of a multi-professional team, the post holder will practice autonomously, whilst being accountable and self-directed in line with the relevant code of professional conduct.
To plan and manage complete episodes of care; undertake independent comprehensive assessment and management of service users to incorporate pharmacological considerations; making complex clinical decisions regarding service user management and clinical outcomes.
To provide expert clinical advice, leadership, and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis, and advanced decision-making skills.
Participate in change, to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research, and education. To promote and demonstrate best practice by integrating evidence into practice.
The practitioner will be able to link in with other local services to improve access to appropriate healthcare. There will be a good understanding of what services and resources are available to effectively signpost to a range of community-based options.
The practitioner will complete specialist holistic assessment with patients supporting shared decision-making including self-management. Evidence-based brief biopsychosocial interventions will be provided where appropriate.
The practitioner will work collaboratively with patients, carers, and their families networking with the wider multi-agency team such as GPs, Practice Nurses, Pharmacists, Social Prescribers, Recovery Steps, Voluntary and Third Sector Organisations.
Person Specification
Experience
* Awareness and understanding of professional accountability, NMC or equivalent and local/national initiatives
* Long term (chronic) disease management experience
* Experience of implementing evidence-based practice
* Team leadership abilities and experience
* Experience in caseload management
* Understanding of difficult to manage/challenging behaviours
* Experience of working in primary care
Qualifications
* Registered nurse with current NMC registration
* Minimum of 3 years experience at a Senior Nurse demonstrating Leadership and Management skills. Nurse Prescriber Qualification.
* Risk Assessment and Risk Management / Safety Planning skills for individuals with mild, moderate and complex mental health needs
* Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to relate positively with a wide range of professional and non-professional staff and to manage conflict and difficult situations
* Ability to empathise
* Develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations
* Communicates clearly and effectively, deploying a range of different techniques
* Listens and demonstrates understanding of others viewpoints.
* Evidence of post registration/psychological interventions.
* Clinical Leadership skills
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.
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