EIP Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

Are you a compassionate, dedicated and motivated Leader who always puts people at the heart of everything you do?

Are you a professional who enjoys working as part of a ‘can do’, innovative and forward-thinking team as well as embracing the challenge of working autonomously?

EIP Norfolk is currently able to offer an exciting opportunity to join our highly skilled and experienced team, based on Unthank Road in Norwich, delivering bespoke and timely interventions to our service users, aged 14 – 65 years, and their families.

We are looking to recruit a Clinical Nurse Specialist with a Non-Medical Prescribing qualification who has an excellent working knowledge and experience of community mental health working. You will have prior experience of team clinical leadership / management and you will have a keen and driven interest and knowledge base in Early Intervention in Psychosis.

You will be committed to ongoing service and clinical development inclusive of service user / carer involvement which will be paramount to ensure the sustained delivery of our Service Operational Policy developed in line with National Clinical Institute of Excellence Quality Standards for EIP.

Main duties of the job

As an advanced practitioner with EIP Norfolk you will offer senior clinical contribution and supervision to specialist team assessment, formulation, treatment and care review governed under CPA .

Extensive experience of working alongside service users and families with complex health and social care difficulties within the community would be essential as would prior experience of working with psychosis.

Your Clinical Nurse Specialist role will include Non-Medical Prescribing to the Central Norfolk caseload as appropriate and under supervision of our service consultant. NMP qualification would be an essential criterion for this post.

You will be working alongside a dedicated group of professionals who hold the service user, family, carers and social recovery at the centre of all that we deliver.

We are confident that being part of our service would enable you to be the practitioner you trained, and would like, to be.  This role will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference, whilst contributing to and benefitting from the much wider Trust NMP network across Norfolk and Suffolk.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties of this Senior Clinical Role include:

• To complete comprehensive assessment including assessment and management of risk.
• Formulating treatment plans to provide a holistic service to meet mental health and physical health needs.
• Undertaking urgent medication reviews across the Central Norfolk caseload for those in a crisis.
• Exploring alternatives to admission and advocating for intensive community-based/home treatment options.
• Undertaking routine medication reviews across the Central Norfolk caseload alongside Consultant Psychiatrist.
• This role is a mix of community visits within the urban/rural areas across Central Norfolk and NSFT site clinic-based sessions.
• To provide information, education and support for service users and their families specific to coping with diagnosis and treatments.
• To lead / participate in delivery of Quality Standard interventions as appropriate across the caseload eg. Family and Friend Interventions and support.
• To provide advice, support and guidance where required to the MDT. Offering time to support the wider team with visits where specialist knowledge could be required.
• To communicate /liaise effectively with relevant referring partners and other agencies.
• To lead / participate in EIP awareness sessions / training events.
• To support staff development and act as a role model to the team, such as demonstrating the behaviours required in line with our Trust values.
• Take part in Service Development, audit, and evaluation appropriate to Early Intervention in Psychosis.
• To participate in Quality and Safety Reviews within the Trust.
• To promote innovation and contribute to appropriate research projects initiated / adopted by the service.
• To take part in RCA reviews and implement any lessons learnt from incidents and complaints within the clinical area.
• Undertake Line Management / Clinical Supervision within the team for an agreed number of staff.
• Being part of the County wide EIP Norfolk Senior Leadership Team and encouraging evidence-based changes and processes across the service.
• To lead on physical health monitoring / healthy lifestyle intervention model in line with Lester Tool alongside Consultant and Clinical Skills Practitioner.
• To fully engage with NSFT annual appraisal, mandatory training and professional clinical supervision schedule thus ensuring own professional development plans and ongoing professional registration is maintained.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!