Clinical Nurse Specialist

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider in London seeks a dedicated mental health nurse to conduct assessments and provide expert care in a compassionate environment. The role involves triaging service users, developing risk management plans, and clinical supervision. Join us in improving mental health services with a focus on collaboration and quality care.

Qualifications

• Expert nursing care in mental health assessments.
• Able to provide risk assessments and management planning.
• Experience in triage and clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Conduct high quality mental health assessments of service users.
• Ensure effective triage process and clinical lead role.
• Document care according to professional standards.

Skills

Mental health assessments

Risk assessment

Clinical supervision

Triage process

Collaborative teamwork

Education

NMC or HPC registration

Job description

Overview

The Health Based Place of Safety is a nurse-led service in North London NHS Foundation Trust with the sole remit of providing assessments and care for service users detained by the police under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act. Service users presenting to HBPoS are often in an acute phase of crisis and require high quality assessment and intensive care for a period of 24 hours.

Responsibilities

• Safe and effective triage process of all service users referred to the service.
• Conducting high quality mental health assessments of all service users.
• Developing effective risk assessment and risk management plans for service users, during the period of admission and on discharge.
• Ensuring high quality physical health assessment and ongoing physical health care during admission.
• Providing high quality handovers to SPR and AMHPs and timely referrals for Mental Health Act assessments and sourcing of beds.
• Effective shift co-ordination and the management of 3 staff.
• Providing clinical supervision up to 2 staff.
• Escalating breaches and incidents effectively.
• Mentoring nursing students.
• Taking a clinical lead role within the team.
• Supporting the manager in roster management, phase reviews, team audits and team quality improvement (QI) projects.

Clinical Practice and Qualifications

• To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated expertise, in accordance with NMC or HPC codes of professional conduct.
• To provide expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within a multidisciplinary team to include:
  • Initial assessment and formulation using a range of mental health or other specialist tools.
  • When required to do so, making appropriate judgments about own day-to-day caseload.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users, carers and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community.
• Apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence-based interventions in accordance with the requirements of service line care pathways.
• Maintaining contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust and the relevant professional body (where appropriate to the post holder).

Additional Information

This is not an exhaustive list; please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through 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 proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all, including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk

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. Provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 2. With partners in North London and each borough, ensure equity of outcome for all. 3. Offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 4. Be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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 falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.