Clinical Nurse Specialist post in Adult Community Mental Health Services in North Hertfordshire, sitting within Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. The work centres on nursing input to referrals, assessments, risk management, safeguarding, and care coordination, alongside supervising nursing and other colleagues. The post carries a small caseload of highly complex cases and combines clinic-based work with outreach. Nurse Independent Prescriber status is required to prescribe for a specific group of service users.
What the job involves
- Provide the nursing perspective to the team's clinical work and service delivery, advising on referrals
- Carry out highly specialist, holistic assessments and formulate and implement treatment and management plans
- Maintain a small caseload of highly complex cases and co-ordinate care for those service users
- Identify, analyse and interpret highly complex problem behaviour, making formulations to engage and intervene with service users, carers and families
- Take part in referral and allocation, risk management, safeguarding of children and adults, and case and service meetings
- Act as Nurse Independent Prescriber for a specific service user group, per Trust policy and NMC requirements
- Develop and deliver evidence-based interventions through clinic-based and outreach models
- Offer consultation and supervision to colleagues, students and staff in other services
- Develop nursing practice in the service, including supervising nursing and other discipline colleagues
- Provide specialist advice on formulations and treatment to colleagues and external agencies
- Work with primary, secondary and tertiary care colleagues to improve service provision and avoid inpatient admissions
- Take a leading role in service innovation and development, including projects with junior staff
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse (Mental Health/Learning Disability)
- Teaching certificate including annual update (ENB 998) or equivalent
- Evidence of CPD
- Nurse Independent Prescriber qualification
- MSc in a specific therapeutic treatment modality, e.g. systemic practice or cognitive behavioural therapy
- Postgraduate clinical therapeutic qualification related to the community
Registration & licences
- NMC registration (mental health or learning disability nursing)
Experience
- Sound experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post
- Experience of nurse independent prescribing for the relevant service user group
- Experience of working with people with emotional or psychological difficulties and challenging behaviour, and with their families and wider networks, in crisis and emotionally demanding settings
- Experience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults
- Experience of peer supervision, supervising multi-disciplinary colleagues and consultation in other agency settings
- Experience of therapeutic practice in different cultural contexts
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
