Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-9080
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Civic Offices Borehamwood, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, WD6 1WA
- Town
- Borehamwood
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAs)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/02/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for the post of Clinical Nurse Specialist has become vacant within the Adult Community Mental health services in Borehamwood .
Taking responsibility for making a significant contribution to the nursing input, participating fully in the referral and allocation process, assessments, treatment, risk management, safeguarding vulnerable children and adults, care coordination of service users as well as contributing to case discussions and service-related meetings.
Offering consultations and supervision to colleagues and students as well as staff in within the team .
Main duties of the job
To develop and provide highly specialist evidence based interventions for service users, drawing on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
To deliver timely, accessible services through both clinic based and outreach models.
To provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues, external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
Care-coordinate a small caseload of service users delivering highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deliver timely, accessible services through both clinic-based and operational models.
To provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues, and external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
Care co-ordinate 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 the supervision of both nursing colleagues and colleagues from other disciplines in the service.
To actively participate in supervision, appraisal and professional development to enhance clinical skills e.g. nurse prescribing
To work collaboratively and provide nursing consultation to other relevant professions within HPFT and external agencies to build capacity in terms of the early identification and physical and psychological management of disorders and/or disability.
To work collaboratively with colleagues in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care to improve existing service provision within the Trust, enabling the effective management of care in the community, avoiding in-patient admissions whenever possible.
To take a leading role in service innovation and development, including projects with other junior staff to ensure the delivery of safe effective nursing.
For a more in-depth Person and Job Description please read the attached documents before applying
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse ( Mental Health/Learning Disability)
- Teaching certificate including annual update (ENB 998), or equivalent.
- Evidence of CPD
- Nurse Independent Prescriber
Desirable criteria
- MSc in specific therapeutic treatment modality e.g. systemic practice, cognitive behavioural therapy.
- Post graduate clinical and therapeutic qualification related to the community.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Sound experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post
- Experience of nurse independent prescribing for relevant service user group
- Experience of working with service users presenting with emotional/psychological difficulties and challenging behaviour with their families and wider networks in situations of crisis and emotionally demanding environments.
- Experience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults
- Experience of teaching and training in practice
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of recent developments in mental health/learning disability provision for specific service user group including government initiatives for working with a range of service users with challenging antisocial behaviour in education and the community
- Knowledge of current developments in research and its application with the specific service user group
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation within public, professional and academic settings
- Facilitating clinical supervision
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and treatment of individual, couples, families and groups frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Prescribing medication for a group of service users, reviewing effectiveness and side effects.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gaudanzia Gillian Gunzo
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087313000
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