Clinical Specialist

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London seeks a Band 6 Nurse to join their innovative mental health team. The role focuses on delivering high-quality patient care through assessments and interventions, collaborating with community services to enhance recovery. Ideal candidates will hold a relevant nursing registration and possess strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates experience in assessing individuals using a range of tools.
• Demonstrable experience in assessing and managing risk.
• Experience in providing person centred care in a community setting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinics in community services, ensuring evidence-based care.
• Formulate specialized care and treatment plans for complex health problems.
• Manage a defined caseload with intervention and evaluation of treatment.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written skills

Competent at using software systems

Experience of implementation of service improvement/ QI projects

Education

Nursing Registration (RMN or RGN)

Job description

Better Lives is the lead provider in service made up of NLFT NHS and third sector substance misuse agency Waythrough. There is a varied workforce including medical and clinicalpractitioners, psychologists, recovery practitioners, administrative, data teams and peer mentors. They will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identifying clinical interventions and direct care to service users who will have mental and physical health needs. The post holder would be expected to work across the different Better Lives sites in Islington. We currently have two vacancies - one based at our Grays Inn Road site and the other based at Seven Sisters Road.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will also be responsible for delivering clinics in our community services. They will also undertake management tasks, deputising for the Clinical Leads as required, and will take a lead on developing and maintaining positive working relationships with community services and within primary care.

As a Band 6 nurse, the post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the wider team understands and operates to the requirements of the service operational policy and strategy, and that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. They will contribute to governance and audit within the team, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team.

The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines. Incorporating evidence based best practice and maximising service user's recovery and re-enablement, whilst ensuring that the service adapts to the demographic needs of our service users.

About us

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. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Job responsibilities

The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines. Incorporating evidence based best practice and maximising service users recovery and re-enablement, whilst ensuring that the service adapts to the demographic needs of our service users.

The post holder will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental and physical health problems.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Nursing Registration (RMN or RGN)
• Experience in SMS
• Able to work autonomously

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Competent at using software systems including microsoft applications
• Experience of implementation of service improvement/ QI projects

Experience

• Demonstrates experience in assessing individuals using a range of tools and systems
• Demonstrable experience in assessing and managing risk
• Demonstrable experience of providing person centred care in a community setting
• Sound practical experience of patient / service user care and engagement within the wider context of the organisation
• Demonstrable experience of adaptability to change.

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.

£46,419 to £55,046 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS