The Clinical Nurse Specialist role is responsible for supporting the Bromley Mental Health Hub in the integration of the Mental Health Pathway and to ensure no overlap in service provision whilst playing a key role in monitoring and evaluating the quality of care delivered locally.

The post holder must be a team player and be able to lead in areas of clinical practice and development, they will be responsible for working independently, managing a small caseload of clients, always ensuring safe and effective clinical practices.

The post holder will be expected to provide effective leadership for a multi-disciplinary clinical team, providing high quality service within the resources available.

The post holder is expected to have considerable experience in Mental Health assessment and formulation, management, and clinical risk.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:

To support clinicians in identifying training and support needs.

To identify and lead relevant service developments using recognised frameworks i.e. Quality improvement.

Oversight of referrals, assessment, and treatment

To complete Dialog assessments as and when needed.

To work with patients and team members to support engagement with appropriate services and treatment which may include onward referral to secondary mental health services or signposting to other mental health services, social prescribers, third sector partners, voluntary services, wellbeing hubs and community-based support groups.

They will assist clients to access community support by signposting to the most appropriate service.

Contribute to the effective screening of patients referred.

To challenge ways of working which are not in accordance with best practice and promote a culture of change in the service.

Ensure that assessment and treatment is based on NICE guidance and current best practice.

Ensure excellent communication with key stakeholders.

To identify performance monitoring and management needs and liaise with team manager to address.

Line management and supervision of relevant staff.

Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.

Take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting staff in management of such cases.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Trusts success will be dependent on all managers playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation. Managers will be expected to:

Ensure that systems are in place to co-ordinate information about the take up of the services and to establish unmet needs and action plans to address those.

Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team which reflect Trust and local priorities and ensure staff has access to appropriate training and development.

Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery.

Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback.

Ensure that service response to patient experience feedback is provided in a timely manner.

Undertake other duties delegated by the Service Line Manager in keeping with the scope and authority of the job description.

Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement, and high-quality service delivery.

To ensure care is locally delivered, at the right time and is service user/ carer focussed.

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

Essential

• Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse educated to degree, Masters level or have other relevant experience.
• Specialist knowledge of trauma informed care and its application.
• Advanced understanding of the mental health needs of adults.
• Working knowledge of appropriate assessment tools.
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development.

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate advanced understanding of health inequalities amongst marginalised groups.
• Practice Nurse Advocate training/qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings.
• Highly extensive experience and significant post registration experience in working with people with mental health needs.
• Experience of providing a range of evidence-based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness.
• Experience of leadership and development of junior colleagues.
• Evidence of Interdisciplinary / multi-agency working experience including primary care and community/ voluntary sector.
• Experience of supporting learning and developmental needs

Desirable

• Considerable experience in the assessment and management of clinical risk.
• Proficient in clinical audits and research.
• Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance.

Skills and Professional Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders.
• An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
• Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision that is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the key drivers behind community mental health care.
• Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Beckenham Beacon/Rachel Notley

Beckenham

BR3 4PP

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