Job Description

Working as a member of a multidisciplinary community Mental Health Team the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with a primary diagnosis of psychosis. The team is looking to recruit an individual who can work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team structure.



The post holder may also, on occasions, be requested to undertake management tasks, deputising for the Team manager as required, and will take a lead on mentoring and supervising others within their service area.



The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines, evidence based best practice and to maximise service users recovery and re-enablement.



The post holder will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental health problems.



Applicants should be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base of health and psycho-social interventions for service users with a diagnosis of psychosis and complex needs. Team members benefit from a supportive team environment with clinical supervision, peer support and training



The successful applicant will be a qualified nurse with experience of supporting individuals (and their families) with psychosis and Bipolar Affective Disorder in a community setting. You will be expected to provide strong nurse leadership, with an emphasis on care planning, partnership working and risk management.



The post will involve providing care coordination and nursing interventions to a defined caseload of service users as well as contributing to the team depot clinic and duty rotas.



The successful post holder must have a passion for delivering high quality care and for supporting, managing and improving nursing functions in the team, including improving the physical health outcomes for our service users.



Candidates will be well supported by the R&R Management Team, the Community Matron and the nursing Directorate.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Stephen Bradley (Service Manager) on 020 3317 6700



Catherine Namonda (Team Manager) on 020 3317 6715



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.



Why NLFT?



We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.



We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.



NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme



Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

We Are Kind



We Are Respectful



We Work Together



We Keep Things Simple



We Empower



We Are Proudly Diverse



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.



To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated

expertise, in accordance professional conduct

To embody a population health approach to the role, contributing expertise to

the team's community programme

To supervise, appraise, support and guide Nursing Associate(s) and/or Mental

Health Practitioner(s).

To provide expert, autonomous and specialist clinical practice within a

multidisciplinary team and to include initial assessment and formulation using

a range of mental health or other specialist tools.

To do make appropriate judgements when required to do so about own

caseload.

To assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care in negotiation with service

users, carers, and other services, considering the needs of a diverse

community.

To undertake key working responsibilities. To apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence-based

interventions in accordance with the requirements of service line care

pathways.

To contribute to multidisciplinary team decisions at the point of discharge

and or transfer of the service user.

Better Mental Health. Better Lives. Better Communities.

To participate in and provide a specialist nursing perspective to

multidisciplinary team meetings/case discussions.

To maintain contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust

and the relevant professional body.

To assess and manage risk on a continuous basis, in line with Trust policy. To coproduce support with service users and with their consent, where

appropriate, seek the cooperation of friends, relatives, carers.

To provide and support other members of staff in their assessment and

management of service user care needs through reviewing initial data

collection; monitoring of their progress; feedback; discussion and reports at

support planning

To identify carers and to offer carers assessments and review carers care

plans.

To support the assessment of physical health care needs of service users

by team members and ensure that on-going physical health monitoring /

review of service users takes place.

To provide relevant information for service users relating to health

promotion and wellbeing.

To be able to demonstrate and explain clinical reasoning in relation to

professional input to a service users' care plan when required to members

of the team, trainees, or others external to the organisation.

To recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in line

with Trust policies.

To at all times to act in accordance with trust policies in relation to risk

assessment and safety planning, contributing to comprehensive

assessments of risk and monitoring as appropriate.

To have up to date and detailed knowledge, understanding and

experience of mental health legislation as required by the service line.

To be aware of personal accountability and responsibility in respect of

ensuring that cleanliness standards and practices are maintained in the

clinical environment and that these are compliant with PEAT, The Hygiene

Code, CQC requirements and Trust Infection Control protocols and

procedure.

To follow Trust policy in promptly reporting all accidents and incidents. To undertake investigations when called upon to do so or

nominating/supervising relevant others in this role.

To be responsible for the administration, carriage, and storage of drugs in

accordance with relevant policies and professional guidelines.

To review and recommend medication changes as appropriate in

consultation with medical staff re efficacy and possible side effects and to

develop user centred medication concordance.

To undertake and lead where appropriate, in the evaluation and audit of

professional interventions, clients and the service.

5.Operational Responsibilities

* To maintain confidentiality of information, in accordance with Trust policy.