Clinical Specialist Nurse

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Un poste est disponible au sein de l'équipe de réhabilitation et de récupération de North Islington pour un Infirmier(ère) clinicien(ne) spécialisé(e) qui prendra en charge un cas limité et travaillera au sein d'une équipe pluridisciplinaire. Le rôle implique la fourniture de soins individuels aux utilisateurs de services souffrant de maladies mentales sévères, au sein d'un environnement dynamique et de soutien.

Benefits

Formation continue

Environnement de travail de soutien

Possibilité de travailler dans différentes localités

Qualifications

• Professionnel de la santé inscrit - Infirmier(ère) (toutes inscriptions).
• Expérience en service de santé mentale communautaire.
• Doit être capable d'administrer des injections et de gérer les soins physiques.

Responsibilities

• Fournir un leadership clinique en soins infirmiers et collaborer avec une équipe pluridisciplinaire.
• Participer aux évaluations des risques et aux enquêtes de protection.
• Gérer les médicaments et administrer des soins à domicile.

Skills

Communication

Évaluation des risques

Compassion

Approche centrée sur la personne

Gestion des médicaments

Education

Nursing Registration

Formation post-enregistrement

Certificat de protection des adultes et des enfants

Job description

North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team

The North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team provide care for service users living with severe mental illness living in the North of the Borough.

The North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team model works flexibly and creatively to engage service users in ways and provide a high standard of care.

We are looking for motivated, energetic, ambitious registered nurses who are who are ready to take on this new challenge to work in a creative way to engage mental health service users in the North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team . If you are that nurse then look no further.

You will work with a team of highly skilled multi-disciplinary team professionals in a specialised mental health team to support care delivery.

You will be someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us deliver our Trust priorities:

• Early and effective intervention -
• Helping people to live well -
• Research and innovation -
• Keeping our service users, carers and staff safe -

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Specialist Nurse you will provide clinical nursing leadership, in particular working alongside a multi-disciplined team of therapy staff, psychiatry and psychology and supported by a clinical manager. You will keywork a small caseload and ensure holistic assessment and care delivery through a variety of activities directly. This will include clinical and social care delivery, working in collaboration with Local Authority colleagues. You will be an expert in medications and be able to administer depot injections both on site and in people's homes. You will produce social circumstances reports for Tribunal and managers hearings for patients on section of mental health act and you will take active role in safeguarding processes.

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.

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 fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington.

Job responsibilities

As clinical nurse specialist nurse in North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team, you will perform duties and hold the following responsibilities :

• Work as part of Multidisciplinary Team in the delivery of holistic care for service users
• Collaboratively complete Dialogue + assessment and care planning with service users
• Complete thorough risk assessment and formulation for service users on your caseload
• Raise safeguarding concerns and act as enquiry officer for your cases and any delegated cases
• Take on Duty Person/ In-take duty responsibilities as assigned and chair daily stand up meetings
• Maintain sufficient contacts with service users face to face, telephone and other media, completing diary appointments and outcoming them promptly
• Make timely and accurate case note entries
• Undertake care act assessmentsfor all your caseload on Local Authority System (LAS) with support of Local Authority Social workers
• Undertake safeguarding enquiries and act as a SAM when trained.
• Manage medications for the whole team alongside other nurses and administer depot injections safely, at the centre and in service users homes while monitoring their compliance, efficacy and side effects. Ensure documentation accurately both on the chart and on Rio.
• Work within MHA (1983) and MCA (2005) legal frameworks
• Take lead in infection prevention and control
• Support student nurses and other students by as supervisor and assessor
• Take on Lead or Champion Roles for specific task or areas of the service
• Complete all statutory and mandatory trainings in a timely manner
• Identify learning needs and discuss with your supervisor/line manager
• You will be an agile worker able to prioritise and reprioritise to manage demand and flow
• To be pro active and take initiative to improve service delivery, using quality improvement methodology
• Use evidence based practice to deliver care (e.g. NICE guidelines, Royal college of psychiatry)

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• Registered Health Professional - Nursing (all registrations)
• Evidence of further post-registration relevant training /ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice
• Evidence of Level 2 Safeguarding Adults and Children

Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive experience of working in a community MH Service
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the Mental Capacity Act legislation, its application and use in practice with people with dementia
• Demonstrate an understanding of risk together with an ability to evaluate and contain risk with reference to the individual, staff and carers
• Evidence of participation in service development/Quality Improvement project

Skills and Ability

• -Qualified and Registered RNMH
• -Experience working at Band 6 or above -Experience working in an in-patient or community mental health team
• -Excellent communication skills ,Risk assessment Skills, Writing Social Circumstances Reports, Good understanding of MHAct, MCAct and Care Act ,Good understanding and ability to deliver care for physical health conditions in people with SMI -Compationate and person centred approach to care
• -Evidence of recent CPD activities -Demonstrate reflectivity as practitioner -Up-to-date mandatory training record
• -Post- qualification studies -SAM -AMHP, -Experience using Rio and LAS systems -Experience applying for packages of care and attending funding panels, Assessing Nursing or other students ,Quality Improvement skills/knowledge

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.

£44,806 to £53,134 a yearper annum Inclu Inner London HCAS