Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

The Health Based Place of Safety is a nurse-led service in North London NHS Foundation Trust with the sole remit of providing assessments and care for service users detained by the police under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act.

Main duties of the job

Service users presenting to HBPoS are often in an acute phase of crisis and require high quality assessment and intensive care for a period of 24 hours.

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Safe and effective triage process of all service user users referred to the service.
• Conducting high quality mental health assessments of all service users.
• Developing effective risk assessment and risk management plans for service users, during the period of admission and on discharge
• Ensuring high quality physical health assessment and on-going physical health care during admission.
• Providing high quality handovers to SPR and AMHP's and timely referrals for Mental health act assessments and sourcing of beds.
• Effective shift co-ordination and the management of 3 staff
• Providing clinical supervision up to 2 staff
• Escalating breaches and incidents effectively
• Mentoring Nursing students
• Taking a clinical lead role within the team
• Supporting the manager in roster management, datix reviews, Team audits and team QI project

The HBPoS offers excellent opportunities for nurses to develop their specialist skills in acute crisis care and to develop effective working relationships  with colleagues in the Police,  ambulance services and  local emergency departments.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated expertise, in accordance with NMC or HPC codes of professional conduct
• To provide expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within a multidisciplinary Team to include:-
• Initial assessment and formulation using a range of mental health or other specialist tools
• When required to do so making appropriate judgements about own day to day caseload.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users, carers and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community.
• Apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence based interventions in accordance with the requirements of service line care pathways.
• Maintaining contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust and the relevant professional body (where appropriate to the post holder)

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