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Non Medical Prescriber

Employer
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Location
Stoke on Trent
Salary
£43,742 to £50,056 Pro rata, per annum
Closing date
16 Aug 2024
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Profession
Other Health Profession
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Part Time
Outstanding - Our journey continues

We are recruiting for a Non-Medical Prescriber Band 7, part-time [30 hours per week], Permanent to work in a well established CAMH Team.

South Stoke CAMHS are looking to expand their NMP provision, and are seeking to appoint a Non-Medical Prescriber to work in our friendly and supportive team.

The South Stoke CAMHS team is a well-established multi-disciplinary team that works with children and young people aged 0 - 18 years. There are professionals from a range of backgrounds in the team, including Psychiatry, Nursing, Psychology, Social Work and CBT/IPT-A therapists. The team is one of three community CAMHS teams in the region.

We are looking for a Non Medical Prescriber who has post registration training/qualification in Independent and Supplementary Non-Medical Prescribing and enjoys being a part of a multi-disciplinary team. Having experience of working in a CAMHS setting would be advantageous although not essential as supervision/support for those from Adult Mental Health background will be given. Being committed to delivering high quality services for children, young people and their families is essential.

Main duties of the job

1. Plan and deliver Nurse led clinics and Interventions to Children and Young People with complex Mental Health needs.

2. Prescribe and monitor medication for the management of complex Mental Health needs with supervision from medical staff.

3. Contribute to the assessment of specific complex Mental Health needs within the multidisciplinary team.

4. Have overall responsibility for assessment, planning, development, implementation and evaluation of individual programmes of care.

5. Be responsible and accountable for the assessment of patients with diagnosed and undiagnosed conditions and for decisions about the clinical management required, including prescribing.

6. Develop, deliver and evaluate specialist teaching programmes for all disciplines.

7. Provide a consultancy service offering input to staff within health & social care agencies.

8. Develop, implement and evaluate research / audit projects that will inform service improvement and development.

About us

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.

Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.

As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:

Proud to CARE:

Compassionate

Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.

Approachable

Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open

Responsible

Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions

Excellent

Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.

The Trust offers many benefits:
  • Pension
  • Sickness policy
  • Life cover
  • Enhanced maternity cover
  • Car lease scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Childcare vouchers
  • Healthcare cash plan
  • Free parking
  • On site Gym
  • One paid DBS application
  • Flexible working- including working from home.
  • Access to digital platforms and laptop

Stoke-on-Trent is a unique city in England. It is made up of six distinct towns - affectionately known as THE POTTERIES. It has excellent commuter links but benefits from being within easy reach of beautiful countryside.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To participate in other Trust and external audits as required.

To participate within both internal and external research projects linked to the role of an Independent and Supplementary Non-Medical prescriber and the treatment of AD(H)D children and young people within a CAMHS setting.

To critically appraise the standards and effectiveness of the role through feedback from Children, young people and families, audit and outcome measures.

Promote and facilitate service user feedback opportunities to support service improvement.

Utilise the outcomes provided through benchmarking and clinical governance to evaluate theoutcomes of clinical practice.

Participate in updating and developing clinical policies and protocols in response to the advances of the role of the Nurse Prescriber

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oCore nurse qualification e.g. RMN, RNLD,RSCN.
  • oPost registration training/qualification in Independent and Supplementary Non-Medical Prescribing.


Experience

Essential

  • oSignificant experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their families/carers where appropriate as a full member of a multi-disciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatients or inpatient settings.
  • oSignificant experience of working with a wide variety of children, adolescents and their families/carers across the whole range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.


Knowledge

Essential

  • oHighly competent in working therapeutically with children and young people experiencing complex mental health difficulties and their families throughout the process of assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation
  • oQualified in being able to independently or supplementary prescribe medication, monitor and review, for children with a diagnosis of ADHD or other mental health concerns where medication is prescribed.


Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

South Stoke CAMHS

Stoke on Trent

ST3 3BS

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232-CMT-6322600-A

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