Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an innovative, skilled, compassionate Learning Disability Nurse for our new Specialist Community Learning Disability Service as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. This is an exciting opportunity, and your expertise will be essential in supporting the changes in the nursing team and providing leadership for the nurses.

The service offers standard and enhanced pathways and will be more responsive and accessible, providing specialist health assessments, support, and care for adults aged 18 and over. Care will be provided in a community setting, close to people's homes.

The Nursing Team have implemented the Moulster and Griffiths Nursing model, a specialist evidence-based, person-centred model to provide holistic care to those accessing Nursing support. Positive Behavioural Support also underpins person-centred care, in line with National agendas.

As a service, with a wide range of professions, we work, learn, and combine our expertise together, providing high-quality integrated community, mental health, and learning disability services across Sheffield and are looking for someone who shares our values and is committed to helping improve the lives of the people we support.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users and their families. The transformation has been co-designed and co-produced with stakeholders both internal and external to our organisation, alongside experts by experience, carers, and service users.

Main duties of the job

To clinically lead the nursing team in a specialist health service for adults with learning disabilities and other co-morbidities such as mental health needs, complex behaviours that challenge, and autism.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is responsible and accountable for providing safe, effective care and efficient services to service users and their carers who live within the community. Key aspects of the role include clinical leadership and effective day-to-day management of the team.

To clinically lead a team to provide care that meets the needs of service users and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment. Care is based on comprehensive assessment, ensures continuity, and is person-centred, culturally sensitive, and evidence-based.

About us

At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust's Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.

Job responsibilities

The clinical nurse specialist role covers a range of different aspects and includes clinical and managerial aspects.

Management and leadership

• Partnership working with other MDT members and external agencies.
• Being a responsible and proactive clinical lead for the SCDS nursing team.
• Management of resources including staffing, clinical, and financial.
• Co-ordinating staffing and ensuring adequate nursing cover is available.
• Managing sickness and disciplinary issues using appropriate HR processes.
• To provide managerial oversight and guidance to all team members ensuring any clinical issues are promptly and appropriately resolved.

Clinical and professional

• Demonstrate clinical expertise and clinical credibility to nursing team, other MDT members, and external agencies.
• Be willing to undertake complex assessment and case formulations.
• Be able to competently hold and manage a caseload of complex individuals.
• Ensure nursing team are developing and maintaining high standards of clinical intervention and are following the nursing process appropriately.
• To be responsible and accountable for ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient care.
• To ensure high professional standards of nursing practice in accordance with the NMC code of conduct.

Communication

• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with service users, carers, and family members.
• To exercise a highly proficient level of specialist communication with adults with learning disabilities who present barriers to understanding and/or articulating their needs to others.
• To communicate with service users and carers to explain clinical issues, some of which may be highly complex (establishing capacity to consent, environmental influences, relationship dynamics, impinging health needs) or highly sensitive (e.g., adult/child protection, bereavement).

Quality and service Improvement

• Have a commitment to promote and developing best evidence-based practice in the clinical workplace.
• Share knowledge and expertise with nursing team and wider MDT and consider areas for development and improvement.
• Have a vast knowledge of best evidence resources, local and national policies, and current and future legislation in current learning disability practice.

Training and development

• Support the team manager with team development and other practitioner performance.
• To ensure that all nursing practice is developed using up-to-date evidence-based practice, as well as that all nursing staff have the appropriate skills base and supporting mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group.
• To develop and deliver appropriate specialist training, development, and education packages to identified groups of staff (within the job holder specialty).

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

• Extensive knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients with learning disabilities, regionally and nationally.
• Working knowledge of the legal framework and statutory obligations under the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act.
• Effective communication, administrative, and organisational skills.
• Change and/or project management.

Training and qualifications

• RNLD, current professional registration with NMC.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Leadership and/or management qualification.
• Post graduate level qualification in subject relevant to area of practice.
• Teaching qualification.
• Non-Medical Prescriber.

Experience

• Significant experience working with people with learning disabilities and complex needs.
• Significant experience working with people who display high-risk behaviours.
• Collaborative working with service users and families/carers.
• Quality improvement.
• Delivering training and education to multi-professional groups.
• Involvement in research activities.

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.