Job Description

We are recruiting a 0.4 WTE Clinical Specialist Nurse to work as the Clinical Specialist in the Camden Care Home Liaison Team.



The Camden Care Home Liaison Team provides specialist care and treatment for a caselaod of older adult who are living in residential care to support their wellbeing and quality of life.



If you are a nurse who has experience of working with older adults and supporting service users who often have complex needs including significant physical health care comorbidities we would be very keen to hear from you.



By working in a multidisciplinary Care Home Liaison you will develop strong leadership and dynamic risk assessment & clinical management skills . You will contribute to the effective management of service users across a shared caseload and formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with acute functional mental health problems and/or dementia.



You will provide direct care to service users with acute mental health problems who are living in residential care, work closely with care home staff and ensure that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered.



You will have the opportunity to contribute to governance and audit within the team, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team.



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 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 fall 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.



Main Duties of the Job



Coordinate the day to day running of the Care Home Liaison Team alongside other members of the MDT



Complete triages and assessments for service users who are referred to our service, meeting the physical, psychological, social and cultural needs of the individual and their family.



Work with care home providers to meet the needs of older adult residential care home residents in Camden.



Review service users in line with the agreed care plan and carry out anti-psychotic reviews of service users prescribed antipsychotic medication for the management of Behavioural Problems Secondary to Dementia (BPSD).



Apply specialist clinical knowledge and experience to provide education for care home staff to develop a greater understanding of the mental health condition of their residents and support them to work in a client centred way.