Clinical Specialist Nurse

Wales Medicines Strategy Group; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

Main area Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm)

Job ref: 455-CANDI-1267

Employer: 455 North London NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: North London NHS Foundation Trust, South Camden Rehabilitation & Recovery Team, Town London

Salary per annum incl of HCAS

Closing: 20/04/2025 23:59

Clinical Specialist Nurse

Band 6

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma-informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all, including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

The South Camden R&R Team provides community-based secondary health care and social care support to deliver effective recovery pathways for adults who are living with symptoms of, or are recovering from episodes of psychosis.

Depending on the needs of the individual and carers, this can be short or long-term support and includes co-producing recovery plans, developing collaborative relapse prevention strategies, longer-term specialist treatment, and complex case management provision.

We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse to join our highly skilled and established multidisciplinary team in our trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and evidence-based clinical approach to care. With robust clinical supervision and team support, you will offer a caseload of people with complex needs creative support and signposting to empower them to live well. As well as delivering specialist health interventions and being involved in assessing and reviewing care and support needs, you will take part in adult safeguarding, provide statutory reports and assessments, support colleagues and supervise others, play a part in team development, and advocate for service users addressing the inequalities they may experience.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Specialist Nurse, you will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team of therapy staff, medics, psychologists, support workers, social workers, welfare and employment workers, supported by a clinical team manager. You will keywork a caseload of people with complex needs and ensure holistic assessment and care delivery through a variety of direct activities and through signposting and liaison with partner agencies and community offers as their needs change through the pathways. This will include clinical and social care delivery, working in collaboration with Local Authority colleagues.

You will be an expert in medications and be able to administer depot medications in clinics and in people's homes and support and monitor treatment plans. You will support people to access care for their physical and social health to address isolation and health inequalities.

You will produce social circumstances reports for Tribunal and managers' hearings for patients on sections of the Mental Health Act, and you will take an active role in undertaking adult safeguarding inquiries and be part of multiagency networks to protect vulnerable adults and their children.

Outside of your caseload, you will act as a duty worker and help run clinics on a rota basis. You will play an active part in team meetings, clinical decision-making, supervising junior staff and students, and supporting your peers.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As clinical nurse specialist in the South Camden R&R Team, you will perform duties and hold the following duties and main responsibilities (this list is not exhaustive):

• Work as part of the Multidisciplinary Team within the R&R Team in the delivery of holistic care for and with service users.
• Collaboratively complete Dialog + assessment and care planning with service users.
• Ensure Dialog + mandatory 6 months reviews are completed to monitor outcomes.
• Hold a defined caseload of service users and manage their care delivery.
• Complete thorough risk assessments and formulations for service users on your caseload and keep these updated.
• Raise safeguarding concerns and act as enquiry officer for your cases and any delegated cases.
• Ensure all incidents, near misses, or actual incidents are reported to your manager and reported through Datix.
• Take on Duty Person responsibilities as assigned and attend and occasionally chair daily morning huddles and weekly clinical meetings.
• Maintain sufficient contacts with service users face to face, telephone, and other media, completing diary appointments and outcoming them promptly.
• Make timely and accurate case note entries.
• Communicate effectively with MDT both in and outside meetings and liaise with other statutory services and partnership agencies.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• 2 years Post registration experience.
• Evidence of further post-registration relevant training/ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice.
• Mentorship or recognised teaching and assessing certificate or willingness to undertake.
• Other advanced training i.e. AMHP/NMP/CBT in Psychosis.

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrable experience in a senior specialist capacity caring for people with psychosis in a community care or inpatient setting.
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with complex mental health and/or substance misuse problems and the impact on families.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the Mental Health legislation, its application, and use in practice.
• Demonstrate an ability to liaise with other agencies, carers, and the service user’s wider support network.
• An awareness of research and evidence of its application in the workplace.
• Evidence of collaboration in quality Improvement initiatives.

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work autonomously and to deputise for senior staff in a variety of roles when required to do so.
• Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches, storing data and retrieving data, producing reports, etc.
• Demonstrable experience of adaptability to change.

If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification and job description and would like to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust at this time, we would be interested in receiving your application.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we reserve the right to close any vacancies before the stated closing date. Therefore, please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

In line with NHS protocols, only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We regret that it is not possible to contact all applicants for every vacancy. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system- UKVI points based system.

Please note, in order to progress your application your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of North London NHS Foundation Trust. As part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit TrustID.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make cost savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.