Clinical Specialist Nurse

Job overview

Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist

North Camden Rehab and Recovery Team

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

Dependant 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 orientated 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.  Aswell 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,  be involved in supporting colleagues and supervising others, play a part in team development and be a advocate in supporting  service users address the inequalities they may experience.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Specialist Nurse you will be working alongside a multi-disciplined team of therapy staff, medics, psychologists, supports workers, social workers, welfare and employment workers and supported by a clinical 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 mental health act and you will take active role in undertaking adult safeguarding enquiries 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As clinical nurse specialist in North 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 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 assessment and formulation 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 miss or actual 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.