Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider in London as a Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist. The role involves assessing patients, developing tailored care plans, and supporting end-of-life care in a dynamic team environment. Ideal candidates will have experience with dementia and a willingness to undertake independent prescribing qualifications.

Qualifications

• Experience working with older people with mental health and/or learning disabilities.
• Willingness to undertake prescribing qualification if not already qualified.

Responsibilities

• Expertly assess patients and develop individualized care plans.
• Support unplanned care telephone triage service.
• Promote safety and report concerns via safeguarding pathways.

Skills

Assessment and diagnosis skills

Independent prescribing

Experience with dementia

End of life care

Job description

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The Care Homes Assessment Team (CHAT) is an award-winning integrated physical and mental health service that supports the lives and deaths of residents in Care Homes across Enfield and part of Haringey. CHAT is part of Enfield Community Services (ECS) which is hosted by NMUH. The team has dedicated Consultant Psychiatry support and a mental health band 7 RMN and OT all currently supporting residents in Care Homes. We are looking for a flexible, dynamic and experienced band 7 Mental Health Specialist Nurse to join our team due to maternity leave of the current post holder. We are a supportive team and organisation and are looking for someone with assessment and diagnosis skills, independent prescribing is desirable but if not already prescribing a willingness to undertake this qualification is essential, experience working with dementia or older people with mental health and/or learning disabilities in the Care Home setting is essential and experience of having sensitive future care planning conversations and supporting end of life. The service operates 7 days a week 8am-8pm but shift patterns for this role will be 8am-4pm or 9am-5pm.

To expertly assess patients including systemic mental health assessments, analysing signs and symptoms and other measures of function to formulate diagnosis, treatment and referral where appropriate to the identified group of patients resident in a specific group of Care Homes. To develop individualised evidence based care and treatment plans for the patients in close discussion with them, their relatives and the Care Home staff; and with consideration of the unique presentation of psychological illness and response to treatment of elderly people with suspected or known mental health diagnosis. To agree appropriate interventions and contingency plans, including end of life care, with the patients and carers, both formal and informal, with the specific purpose of preventing unnecessary A&E attendance or hospital admission and improving end of life care. To support an unplanned care telephone triage service to the homes in Enfield providing advice and organising assessment of patients as necessary. To facilitate the review of patients’ medications, in consultation with the GP/psychiatrist, as appropriate, especially where there is evidence of polypharmacy within own scope of practice. Proactively promote safety and report concerns via established safeguarding information panel and safeguarding pathways to the Local Authority. Including attending strategy meetings, information gathering meetings and sharing information to protect vulnerable Care Home residents.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vinny Carpenen Job title: Clinical & Operational Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02045535698

Any CHAT Mental Health Specialist Nurse can advise about role or arrange a shadow session prior to application/interview should you wish.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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