Clinical Specialist Nurse

Job overview

Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist

North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team

The North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team provide care for service users living with severe mental illness living in the North of the Borough.

The North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team model works flexibly and creatively to engage service users in ways and provide a high standard of care.

We are looking for motivated, energetic, ambitious registered nurses  who are who are ready to take on this new challenge to work in a creative way to engage mental health service users in the North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team . If you are that nurse then look no further.

You will work with a team of highly skilled multi-disciplinary team professionals in a specialised mental health team to support care delivery.

You will be someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us deliver our Trust priorities:

• Early and effective intervention –
• Helping people to live well –
• Research and innovation –
• Keeping our service users, carers and staff safe –

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Specialist Nurse you will provide clinical nursing leadership, in particular working alongside a multi-disciplined team of therapy staff, psychiatry and psychology and supported by a clinical manager.  You will keywork a small caseload and ensure holistic assessment and care delivery through a variety of activities directly. This will include clinical and social care delivery, working in collaboration with Local Authority colleagues. You will be an expert in medications and be able to administer depot injections both on site and in people's homes. You will produce social circumstances reports for Tribunal and managers hearings for patients on section of mental health act and you will take active role in safeguarding processes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As clinical nurse specialist nurse in North Islington Recovery and Rehabilitation Team, you will perform duties and hold the following  responsibilities :

• Work as part of Multidisciplinary Team in the delivery of holistic care for service users
• Collaboratively complete Dialogue + assessment and care planning with service users
• Complete thorough risk assessment and formulation for service users on your caseload
• Raise safeguarding concerns and act as enquiry officer for your cases and any delegated cases
• Take on Duty Person/ In-take duty responsibilities as assigned and chair daily stand up meetings
• Maintain sufficient contacts with service users face to face, telephone and other media, completing diary appointments and outcoming them promptly
• Make timely and accurate case note entries
• Undertake care act assessments for all your caseload on Local Authority System (LAS) with support of Local Authority Social workers
• Undertake safeguarding enquiries and act as a SAM when trained.
• Manage medications for the whole team alongside other nurses and administer depot injections safely, at the centre and in service users homes while monitoring their compliance, efficacy and side effects. Ensure documentation accurately both on the chart and on Rio.
• Work within MHA (1983)  and MCA (2005) legal frameworks
• Take lead in infection prevention and control
• Support student nurses and other students by as supervisor and assessor
• Supervise junior staff
• Deputise team manager
• Take on Lead or Champion Roles for specific task or areas of the service
• Complete all statutory and mandatory trainings in a timely manner
• Identify learning needs and discuss with your supervisor/line manager
• You will be an agile worker able to prioritise and reprioritise to manage demand and flow
• To be pro active and take initiative to improve service delivery, using quality improvement methodology
• Use evidence based practice to deliver care (e.g. NICE guidelines, Royal college of psychiatry)