Job Overview
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
Key Responsibilities
* Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions for treatment as clinically appropriate using evidence‑based models.
* Set up processes and protocols for effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for all patients with a range of physical health care needs, including those who may also have mental health and/or substance misuse needs.
* Safeguard vulnerable patients in line with Trust safeguarding policies.
* Provide brief interventions—health education, advice and information—to patients and develop health promotion programmes in partnership with the prison.
* Provide specialist clinical advice, training and support to nursing colleagues on patient management.
* Apply local risk assessment and management protocols.
* Make appropriate referrals to other services for long‑term or complex care management (e.g., detox, counselling, psychology).
* Advise primary‑care nursing staff and GPs on medication issues, promote adherence to local medication policies and compliance with legal and professional standards.
* Possess knowledge of the security implications of medicines within Health & Justice Services.
* Monitor the ongoing health status of patients and address identified issues.
* Co‑ordinate multidisciplinary clinical practice to provide focused, integrated care and treatment programmes.
* Work collaboratively with primary‑care staff to develop clinical services that deliver high‑quality nurse‑led clinics (e.g., minor ailments, chronic disease clinics and health promotion initiatives).
* Use highly skilled interventions to de‑escalate aggressive patient behaviours and be aware of the appropriate processes for dealing with them.
* Work with staff of other disciplines (e.g., prison, education) to provide integrated and coordinated care.
* Work within own sphere of competency and ensure that training needs are communicated to the team manager.
* Lead local audits and participate in Trust audits to enhance quality of care.
* Deliver care in a range of nurse‑led clinics utilising the Quality Outcome Framework.
Education and Qualifications
* Essential: NMC Registered Adult Nurse; education to degree level, or appropriate experience.
* Desirable: ENB998/SLICE or Mentorship qualification.
Attitudes, Aptitudes and Personal Characteristics
* Essential: Demonstrate the ability to weigh up situations and consider the benefits and problems before decisions are made.
* Essential: Demonstrate a positive ‘can do’ attitude despite the challenges of any given situation.
* Desirable: Demonstrable ability to plan and implement change in the service and involve the workforce in the programme of change.
Other Essential Criteria
* Ability to understand and implement the equal opportunities policy at a level appropriate to the job.
* Ability to promote anti‑discriminatory and anti‑racist practices.
Skills and Knowledge
* Up to‑date knowledge of primary care/Health & Justice nursing.
* Ability to support in building and developing teams of people, and to provide clinical leadership to a diverse workforce.
* Demonstrable performance management of staff to meet key performance indicators (KPIs) and performance targets.
* Ability to identify problems and use initiative and creativity in problem solving.
* Ability to manage pressure and changing and conflicting priorities effectively.
* Ability to support and monitor systems for clinical practice.
* Ability to influence and use negotiation skills to manage differences constructively.
* A demonstrable ability to work closely with a range of stakeholders and other providers in helping plan the future of service provision.
* Ability to manage change and conflict.
* Able to demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding practice for both vulnerable adults and children.
Experience
* Essential: Experience at Band 6 or equivalent in a multidisciplinary staff team, including line management and supervision responsibility.
* Essential: Experience of supporting staff through change.
* Essential: Experience of multi‑professional collaboration, including partnership working with other agencies.
* Essential: Experience of involving service users in service planning and monitoring.
* Essential: Experience developing and running nurse‑led clinics.
* Desirable: Experience of service development.
Benefits
* Monthly supervision; annual personal development plans/appraisals; support and guidance with revalidation.
* Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies.
* Access to a full range of internal and external training opportunities across services.
* Free use of onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
Career Development
* Clinical leadership career pathway programme facilitating lifelong learning and development.
Support for Clinical and Leadership Skills
* Induction programme.
* Career coaching.
* Clinical supervision.
* Reflective practice.
* Ongoing support from professional nurse advocates.
* NHS Leadership Academy leadership course.
* Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies.
* External training courses in enhanced and advanced practice.
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