Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist

TN United Kingdom; Billericay; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, Billericay

Client:

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

c62d21cd27a2

Job Views:

2

Posted:

30.03.2025

Expiry Date:

14.05.2025

Job Description:

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

Job overview

The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (nurse, clinical psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (NMC, HCPC, UKCP, ACP) or a graduate qualified health care professional (mental health/learning disability nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (NMC, Social Work England). Plus an additional post-graduate qualification in either psychological therapies (CYP IAPT post graduate diploma in systemic family practice/cognitive behavioural therapy) or other post-graduate qualification relevant to CAMHS and mental health.

Main duties of the job

• The post-holder will provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise in B&D Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS), Front Door Team.
• Responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement and the extensive clinical supervision of junior clinicians.
• Ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it throughout the CAMHS team.
• Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider education, mental health, wellbeing and learning disability support services and ensure adherence to evidence-based treatments by all clinical staff across the CAMHS team.
• Deliver and supervise a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term input and specialist behavioural and psychological treatments.
• Responsible for all specialist assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise within CAMHS practice.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training in psychological practice (clinical/counselling psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) or graduate qualified healthcare professional (nurse, social worker, occupational therapist).

Knowledge

• Good working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point, Access, Electronic diary, e-mail and office management systems.
• Excellent knowledge of emotional, developmental, mental health problems and life span issues.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice.
• Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.

Skills

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients.
• Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
• Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
• Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
• Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work.
• Ability to undertake quality improvement projects and audits.

Experience

• Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs.
• Extensive experience of working with difficult, challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
• Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children.
• Experience of carrying out generic and specialist assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings.
• Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with the client group within the service and within related agencies.

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.