Job summary
We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dedicated Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our team on Rollesby Ward, a female psychiatric intensive care unit at Hellesdon Hospital on a part time basis (31 hours per week).
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will provide comprehensive care for service users, from initial history taking and clinical assessment to diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care. You will demonstrate safe clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for service users in a mental health setting. Your critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process will be essential as you work with the medical team to meet the needs of the service users and provide clinical professional nurse leadership to the nursing team.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities include:
- Conduct thorough risk assessments and provide safe treatment and care.
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions for service users with mental health diagnoses.
- Rapidly evaluate and modify care plans based on patient conditions and responses.
- Attend high-risk situations to provide management advice and clinical intervention.
- Prioritise health problems and initiate effective emergency care.
- Prescribe and review medication, integrating non-drug-based treatments into care management plans.
- Promote evidence-based care and support service users in adopting recovery strategies.
- Communicate effectively with service users, families, carers, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Maintain accurate records of health assessments and therapeutic interventions.
About us
Our Trust is striving to ensure that staff have access to development opportunities, and you can benefit from this. In this role you will also support other staff to develop and learn, to ensure we have a highly skilled workforce who are happy in their roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RN Mental Health or General Nurse
- Educated to Master's degree level in relevant subject area
- Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescribing qualification
- Post registration qualification in speciality
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in an acute setting
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RN Mental Health or General Nurse
- Educated to Master's degree level in relevant subject area
- Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescribing qualification
- Post registration qualification in speciality
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in an acute setting
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
