Clinical Nurse Specialist Job at Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust, Norwich

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Job Description

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!

We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require


JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

YOUR APPLICATION
It is important that you complete a formal application form as CV’s alone will not be accepted.

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Job overview

Is a role where you can provide a safe and calm space for people suffering from mental health crisis appealing to you?

Our vision is to ensure that all service users, carers and professionals have access to a crisis service 24/7 that can provide support, advice and assessment in a compassionate, patient and recovery focused way. We believe that crisis is self-determined by the person or people experiencing the situation and that this requires an empathetic and non-judgmental approach, which holds those experiencing the crisis at the very centre.

Join us as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and turn that vision into reality.

Main duties of the job

We want to talk to enthusiastic and caring Clinical Nurse Specialists with experience of working within a mental health setting. We want people who are passionate about crisis work and ensuring safe and effective interventions are delivered to service users, their families and other professionals across Norfolk. We would welcome a passionate and skilful clinician who empowers others and be able to support a culture of change within crisis.

We are looking for compassionate colleagues with experience of working across CAMHS, LD & Autism, Adult and Later life and who have the enthusiasm to undertake additional training as part of our staff training programme for crisis. You may feel you want a change from working in an inpatient setting but want to remain on a 24/7 shift pattern.

Working for our organisation

This is an opportunity to grow your management skills, take on responsibilities and help us shape and grown our service. No two days will be the same, but they will include elements of working in an MDT team, providing telephone triage assessments and supporting and guiding service users through crisis in our contact centre.

You will also have the opportunity to co-coordinating shifts, provide clinical oversight and support to practitioners, supporting with teaching and training opportunities, leading on staff development and being a visible role model that echoes the values of the trust and the vision of the service.

We are proud of our culture of honesty, team involvement and ownership of quality patient care with job satisfaction. There will be opportunities to be involved with training, strategy and service development.

Benefits included with this role are:

  • NHS pension
  • comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service

NHS discounts and many more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for people who see challenges as opportunities and will have the ability to influence, inspire and energise others, as well as work with people’s strengths to make an all-round better working environment.

We are committed to developing people professionally and are keen to support individuals who are looking to take their first step into a more senior role.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you!

“I have recently started with the team, and they have all been so welcoming and supportive. I feel that working within FRS, I can make a difference, by providing a kind ear, professional advice to callers and mentoring staff”

  • Providing clinical leadership
  • Supporting the team
  • Influencing, leading and motivating staff at all levels
  • Safety Planning
  • Documentation of above including referrals, Notes, referrals to other teams
  • Liaison with other professionals and teams
  • On occasion, creating formulations and plans for our regular callers
  • Taking lead/champion subjects such as: Learning Disability,
  • Youth, Drug & Alcohol, perinatal, etc. Within that is opportunity for training, sharing knowledge with the team, attending conferences or meetings
  • Shadowing other teams where appropriate/possible
  • Brief intervention over the phone where appropriate
  • Quality Improvement

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs


Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
    • Able to demonstrate sound clinical expertise and knowledge of mental health disorders and their treatments
  • Registered NMP qualification or in process of completing this.

Experience

Essential criteria
    • Minimum 18 months experience in community mental health services as band 6 mental health nurse
    • Minimum 18 months experience in acute inpatient mental health services as band 6 mental health nurse
Desirable criteria
    • Experience in specialist areas within mental health (CAMHS, forensics, ADHD, perinatal, older adult etc).

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RMN or equivalent professional qualification
  • Non-Medical Independent Prescriber (qualified or course completed awaiting results)
  • Degree Level Qualification or equivalent or equivalent level

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Two Ticks - Guaranteed Interview Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.

The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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