Job Description

Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist



North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team



The North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team provide care for service users living with severe mental illness living in the North of the Borough.



The North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team model works flexibly and creatively to engage service users in ways and provide a high standard of care.



We are looking for motivated, energetic, ambitious registered nurses who are who are ready to take on this new challenge to work in a creative way to engage mental health service users in the North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team . If you are that nurse then look no further.



You will work with a team of highly skilled multi-disciplinary team professionals in a specialised mental health team to support care delivery.



You will be someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us deliver our Trust priorities:



Early and effective intervention -



Helping people to live well -



Research and innovation -



Keeping our service users, carers and staff safe -



As a Clinical Specialist Nurse you will provide clinical nursing leadership, in particular working alongside a multi-disciplined team of therapy staff, psychiatry and psychology and supported by a clinical manager. You will keywork a small caseload and ensure holistic assessment and care delivery through a variety of activities directly. 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 injections both on site and in people's homes. You will produce social circumstances reports for Tribunal and managers hearings for patients on section of mental health act and you will take active role in safeguarding processes.



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:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.



2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all



3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.



4. 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.



As clinical nurse specialist nurse in North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team, you will perform duties and hold the following responsibilities :



Work as part of Multidisciplinary Team in the delivery of holistic care for service users

Collaboratively complete Dialogue + assessment and care planning with service users

Complete thorough risk assessment and formulation for service users on your caseload

Raise safeguarding concerns and act as enquiry officer for your cases and any delegated cases

Take on Duty Person/ In-take duty responsibilities as assigned and chair daily stand up 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

Undertake care act assessments for all your caseload on Local Authority System (LAS) with support of Local Authority Social workers

Undertake safeguarding enquiries and act as a SAM when trained.

Manage medications for the whole team alongside other nurses and administer depot injections safely, at the centre and in service users homes while monitoring their compliance, efficacy and side effects. Ensure documentation accurately both on the chart and on Rio.

Work within MHA (1983) and MCA (2005) legal frameworks

Take lead in infection prevention and control

Support student nurses and other students by as supervisor and assessor

Supervise junior staff

Deputise team manager

Take on Lead or Champion Roles for specific task or areas of the service

Complete all statutory and mandatory trainings in a timely manner

Identify learning needs and discuss with your supervisor/line manager

You will be an agile worker able to prioritise and reprioritise to manage demand and flow

To be pro active and take initiative to improve service delivery, using quality improvement methodology

Use evidence based practice to deliver care (e.g. NICE guidelines, Royal college of psychiatry)