Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Band 7 clinical Nurse Specialist in Bromley Mental Health Hub.
Bromley Mental Health Hub (formerly PCP) is going through Integration of Mental Health Pathway with BLG Mind to ensure no overlap in service provision.
As part of Bromley community transformation, there will be a small team of staff with community secondary and primary care experience.
You will work closely with BMHH, PCN, BLG MIND, including Mental Health Advisors, Peer Support Workers, Lived Experience Practitioner (LXP) Benefit Specialist, Inequalities Workers , Consultant Psychiatrists and other statutory organisation to support and develop good clinical practice.
If you think you have the qualities as well as the knowledge, experience and commitment and you want to work alongside a dedicated and highly motivated team and develop your skills further to become a confident clinical lead, then this is the post for you.
We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with appropriate supervision, training and other learning opportunities.
Additional contact information
Christopher Dayo King, Team manager, Beckenham Beacon, Beckenham
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:
- Management of screening, referrals, and assessment.
- Understanding volume and any waiting times and provide effective management of any waiting list breaches.
- Provide oversight for any safe-guarding referrals. To support staff in managing and processing safe-guarding referrals.
- To manage and process Merlin reports.
- Ensure screening is effective and processes are in place to prioritise any urgent referrals and manage any risks.
- To lead any joint screening processes (This should be trialled to evaluate effectiveness)
- Contribute to the effective triage of patients referred.
- To prioritise workload and complete triage as necessary
- To oversee team clinical activity and ensure efficiency in allocating and the completion of team triaging.
- To contribute to the multi-disciplinary clinical assessment and management of patients referred to the service in collaboration with other team members.
- To provide clinical leadership to clinical team meetings, i.e. complex case meeting, service wide MDT meeting and any other relevant forum i.e. professional meetings.
- To manage the agenda and minutes for the above meetings.
- To provide ad-hoc clinical support for staff
Please note that Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust operate a probationary period. Further details available on request.
About us
Oxleas - About Us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bromley, Bexley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Performance Management:
To provide effective leadership and management to the team that promotes high performance standards and enhances the achievement of the Trusts objectives and priorities.
- Assume overall clinical management accountability for the team
- To provide regular review of team performance, using iFox as a performance measure.
- To identify and address any team performance issues.
- To maintain the service clinical audit schedule
- To identify any team training needs
Management Responsibilities
The Trusts success will be dependent on all managers playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation. Managers will be expected to:
- Ensure that systems are in place to co-ordinate information about the take up of the services and to establish unmet needs and action plans to address those
- Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery
- Ensure appropriate supervision takes place in line with Trust policy
- Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback
- Ensure that service users and carers opinions and experiences are being responded to at a team level
- Undertake other duties delegated by the Locality Manager in keeping with the scope and authority of the job description
- Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement and high quality service delivery
- To ensure care is locally delivered, at the right time and is service user/ carer focussed.
- To improve quality and effectiveness of prescribing of mental health medications through clinical audit and education of prescribers to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance
- To support primary care initiatives which improve the physical health outcomes of those with a long-term mental health condition and the mental health outcomes of those with a long-term physical health condition
- To work closely and in partnership with colleagues within primary care and their community partner organisations in a collaborative way, ensuring that decisions are made that ensure the best care for service users and that there is a seamless pathway
- To provide informal mental health specific learning for staff across the Wellbeing Hub, including providing specialist advice relating to mental health
Covid 19 Vaccination
It is no longer a legal requirement for all in scope health and care staff in England to be fully vaccinated against Covid 19. However, we recognise vaccination provides the best defence against Covid 19 for our patients, our staff and their families. We therefore continue to encourage all prospective employees to engage with the vaccination programme and ensure they have been double vaccinated and received their boosters. More information on the Covid 19 vaccination can be found atCoronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination - NHS (www.nhs.uk).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Performance Management:
To provide effective leadership and management to the team that promotes high performance standards and enhances the achievement of the Trusts objectives and priorities.
- Assume overall clinical management accountability for the team
- To provide regular review of team performance, using iFox as a performance measure.
- To identify and address any team performance issues.
- To maintain the service clinical audit schedule
- To identify any team training needs
Management Responsibilities
The Trusts success will be dependent on all managers playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation. Managers will be expected to:
- Ensure that systems are in place to co-ordinate information about the take up of the services and to establish unmet needs and action plans to address those
- Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery
- Ensure appropriate supervision takes place in line with Trust policy
- Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback
- Ensure that service users and carers opinions and experiences are being responded to at a team level
- Undertake other duties delegated by the Locality Manager in keeping with the scope and authority of the job description
- Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement and high quality service delivery
- To ensure care is locally delivered, at the right time and is service user/ carer focussed.
- To improve quality and effectiveness of prescribing of mental health medications through clinical audit and education of prescribers to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance
- To support primary care initiatives which improve the physical health outcomes of those with a long-term mental health condition and the mental health outcomes of those with a long-term physical health condition
- To work closely and in partnership with colleagues within primary care and their community partner organisations in a collaborative way, ensuring that decisions are made that ensure the best care for service users and that there is a seamless pathway
- To provide informal mental health specific learning for staff across the Wellbeing Hub, including providing specialist advice relating to mental health
Covid 19 Vaccination
It is no longer a legal requirement for all in scope health and care staff in England to be fully vaccinated against Covid 19. However, we recognise vaccination provides the best defence against Covid 19 for our patients, our staff and their families. We therefore continue to encourage all prospective employees to engage with the vaccination programme and ensure they have been double vaccinated and received their boosters. More information on the Covid 19 vaccination can be found atCoronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination - NHS (www.nhs.uk).
Person Specification
Qualification & training
Essential
- Evidence of additional training relevant to community mental health
- Nursing Degree/Diploma
Desirable
- RMN
- Management / leadership training
Clinical skills
Essential
- 3 years post qualification mental health experience
- Post qualification experience working in the community
Desirable
- Evidence that able to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supervsing junior staff
- Experience of chairing meetings
Desirable
- Previous experience working complex personality disorder and brief intervention
Communication Skills
Essential
- Evidence of excellent communication skills with other agencies
Desirable
- experience of representing service with external agencies
Person Specification
Qualification & training
Essential
- Evidence of additional training relevant to community mental health
- Nursing Degree/Diploma
Desirable
- RMN
- Management / leadership training
Clinical skills
Essential
- 3 years post qualification mental health experience
- Post qualification experience working in the community
Desirable
- Evidence that able to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supervsing junior staff
- Experience of chairing meetings
Desirable
- Previous experience working complex personality disorder and brief intervention
Communication Skills
Essential
- Evidence of excellent communication skills with other agencies
Desirable
- experience of representing service with external agencies
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).
