Clinical Nurse Specialist – Adult Community Mental Health Services
An exciting opportunity for the post of Clinical Nurse Specialist has become vacant within Adult Community Mental Health Services in Rosanne House, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
Responsibilities
* Take responsibility for making a significant contribution to nursing input, participate fully in the referral and allocation process, assessments, treatment, risk management, safeguarding vulnerable children and adults, care coordination of service users, and contribute to case discussions and service-related meetings.
* Offer consultations and supervision to colleagues and students as well as staff in other services.
* Fulfil the role of a Nurse Independent Prescriber for a specific group of service users as per Trust policy and NMC requirements.
* Develop and provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions for service users, drawing on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
* Deliver timely, accessible services through both clinic-based and outreach models.
* Provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues and external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
* Care-coordinate a small caseload of service users delivering highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
* With others, be responsible for developing nursing practice in the service, including supervision of nursing colleagues and colleagues from other disciplines in the service.
* Actively participate in supervision, appraisal and professional development to enhance clinical skills, e.g. nurse prescribing.
* Collaborate and provide nursing consultation to other relevant professions within HPFT and external agencies to build capacity in early identification and physical and psychological management of disorders and/or disability.
* Collaborate with colleagues in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care to improve existing service provision within the Trust, enabling effective management of care in the community and avoiding in-patient admissions where possible.
* Take a leading role for service innovation and development, including projects with other junior staff to ensure delivery of safe, effective nursing.
About the Trust
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
Values
Our Trust values are: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emelda Mosima
Job title: Service Manager
Email: e.mosima@nhs.net
Telephone: 07920288088
Additional Information
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Health Care Provider
* Industries: Mental Health Care
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