An exciting opportunity for the post of Clinical Nurse Specialist has become vacant within Adult Community Mental Health Services in Bishop's Stortford.
Responsibilities
* Taking a significant contribution to nursing input, participating fully in referral, allocation process, assessments, treatment, risk management, safeguarding vulnerable children and adults, care coordination of service users, and contributing to case discussions and service related meetings.
* Offering consultations and supervision to colleagues and students as well as staff in other services and developing highly specialist evidence‑based interventions for service users using a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
* Delivering timely, accessible services through clinic‑based and outreach models.
* Providing specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues and external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
* Coordinating a small caseload of service users with highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
* Collaborating to develop nursing practice in the service, including supervision of nursing colleagues and other disciplines.
* Participating actively in supervision, appraisal and professional development to enhance clinical skills such as nurse prescribing.
* Working collaboratively with other relevant professions within HPFT and external agencies to build capacity for early identification and physical and psychological management of disorders and/or disability.
* Collaborating with Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care colleagues to improve service provision, manage care in the community and avoid inpatient admissions whenever possible.
* Leading service innovation and development, including projects with junior staff to ensure safe and effective nursing delivery, providing the nursing perspective to the clinical team, advising on appropriate referrals, and maintaining a small clinical caseload of highly complex cases.
* Providing a specialist, holistic assessment of referrals, formulating and implementing plans for treatment and management of care based on an appropriate conceptual framework with research‑based evidence.
* Using specialist knowledge to identify, analyse and interpret complex problem behaviour and interaction‑actionable patterns, prioritising, engaging and intervening effectively to assist service users, carers and families.
* Offering specialist nursing and multi‑modality guidance, advice and consultation to the multidisciplinary team, contributing expertise to treatment formulations.
* Supporting alternatives to prevent inpatient admission and disengagement, through specialist and flexible outreach in service users' homes.
* Delivering a care package that offers the most effective therapeutic response to service users and their families, working jointly with other clinicians in the multidisciplinary team.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse (Mental Health/Learning Disability).
* Teaching certificate with annual update (ENB 998) or equivalent.
* Evidence of CPD.
* Nurse Independent Prescriber.
* Appropriate UK professional registration.
Desirable Criteria
* MSc in a specific therapeutic treatment modality such as systemic practice or cognitive behavioural therapy, or a postgraduate clinical and therapeutic qualification related to the community.
* Sound experience working in a range of settings relevant to the post.
* Experience of nurse independent prescribing for the relevant service user group.
* Experience working with service users presenting with emotional/psychological difficulties, challenging behaviour and their families and wider networks in crisis and emotionally demanding environments.
* Experience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
* Experience of teaching and training in practice.
* Experience of peer supervision, supervising colleagues in the multidisciplinary team and consultation in other agency settings.
* Experience and knowledge of working in a multi‑ethnic community.
* Experience of therapeutic practice in different cultural contexts.
* Record of publication in professional journals.
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