Job summary
Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist
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.
Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme
Excellent internal staff network
The postholder will be aligned with our Values:
We Are Kind
We Are Respectful
We Work Together
We Keep Things Simple
We Empower
We Are Proudly Diverse
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 description
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
- Supervise junior staff
- Deputise team manager
- 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)
Job description
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
- Supervise junior staff
- Deputise team manager
- 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
Essential
- Registered Health Professional - Nursing (all registrations)
- Evidence of further post-registration relevant training /ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice
Desirable
- Evidence of Level 2 Safeguarding Adults and Children
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- 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
Essential
- -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
Desirable
- -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
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- Registered Health Professional - Nursing (all registrations)
- Evidence of further post-registration relevant training /ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice
Desirable
- Evidence of Level 2 Safeguarding Adults and Children
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- 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
Essential
- -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
Desirable
- -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.
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).
