Clinical Nurse Specialist Band 6 development post

NHS; Borehamwood; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health service is seeking an experienced nurse to join their Children and Young People Mental Health Service team in Borehamwood. The role demands a dedicated individual capable of delivering urgent mental health assessments and working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team. Essential qualifications include RMN or equivalent and a minimum of 2 years post-registration experience. The nurse will engage with service users in various settings and contribute to their recovery journeys with a strong focus on individual care pathways.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of post-registration experience with at least one year at Band 5.
• Experience in acute mental health inpatient/day care services.
• Knowledge of safeguarding processes and experience in emotionally demanding environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide urgent assessments for acute mental health concerns.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Deliver person-centered care reflecting best practices.

Skills

Supervision skills

Assessment and treatment methods

Effective communication

Crisis management

Ability to work with diverse communities

Emotional resilience

Education

RMN or Dip/Bsc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing

ENB 812/Bsc in Specialist Community Nursing Practice (Mental Health)

Job description

Job Summary

Children and Young People (CYP) Mental Health Service (CYPMHS) South team located in Borehamwood and Watford is looking for an experienced nurse with experience of working with CYP service users at various phases of their mental health. Passionate about making a difference for individuals and their carer's during their personal journey. Ambitious to work within this challenging role, in a challenging environment, with real scope to develop and influence practice. The post holder does not carry any care coordinator to a case load of service users, but requires you to ensure the complex clinical pathways care plan is met and updated at all times by staff colleagues. To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Providing urgent assessments to those considered to have acute mental health concerns and offer robust home treatment options as an alternative to clink appointments where necessary.
• A role that is varied and challenging, offering an opportunity to work in a variety of settings, with people with a variety of mental health needs. Additionally, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and effective treatment in the community, and facilitate discharges from the inpatient units to eth community team and furthermore ensue discharges to the primary care.
• Working collaboratively with our service users, their carer's and our colleagues to positively manage risk in the CYP care pathway, whilst enabling and empowering an individuals' recovery journey.
• Demonstrate a high standard of record keeping and documentation with adherence to Trust policies.
• Deliver care that is person centred reflecting current best practice, and challenges practice that may be detrimental to older people receiving high quality care.
• Demonstrate a working understanding of the legal and ethical issues in providing mental health care, in particular having a good knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983) and its use in non-mental health areas.

Qualifications – Essential

• RMN or Dip/Bsc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing
• Experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post
• At least 2 years of post registration experience with at least one year at Band 5
• Experience of working in acute mental health inpatient/day care services
• Experience of working in situations of crisis and emotionally demanding environments
• Experience and knowledge of safeguarding process
• Experience of teaching and training
• Experience and knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community
• Experience of delivering evidence based care

Qualifications – Desirable

• ENB 812/Bsc in Specialist Community Nursing Practice (Mental Health).
• Psychosocial interventions
• Experience of working with acute mental health problems in a community setting
• Ability to present using multi-media materials suitable for presentation.
• Knowledge of current developments in research with service user group
• Substantial IT skills

Person Specification – Skills and Aptitudes

• Skills to use and give supervision effectively
• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and treatment of individual, couples, and families requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in applying theory to practice and ability to use a range of models in formulating community care plans
• Ability to communicate effectively within a multi-professional team
• Ability to work with diverse and inclusive communities in a wide variety of context
• Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information where persuasive, empathic and reassuring skills are required
• Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situation including staff and organisational problems; safeguarding; family breakdown; serious mental ill health and risk of self-harm
• Ability to cope with verbal abuse and to recognise and diffuse potential physical abuse from service users
• Ability to apply practice governance as appropriate to maintain ethical and effective clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Assessing and monitoring physical health care

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.