Job summary
Our City 1 Community Mental Health Team based at the City Anchorage on the Julian hospital site serving the Norwich City area is offering an exciting opportunity for a 8A Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join the team.
We are looking for an experienced professional with exceptional organisation and communication skills to join our established high performing team. The role will incorporate oversite of all aspects of patient flow as well as providing care for presenting service users from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care and team audit. They will work along side the Community team manager, operational service manager and community matron demonstrating safe clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for service users cared for in a mental health setting.
The post holder will be able to demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision making process. They will work with the wider community team to meet the needs of the service users and provide clinical professional nurse leadership to the team.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work as the senior clinician as part of our high performing community mental health team City 1, with oversite of the City 1 clinical team and wider community teams , assessing and meeting the needs of complex service users and helping with all aspects of patient flow from assessment to identifying treatment pathways to discharge. The post will be key to service improvement plans and will be responsible for quality audit processes and and helping further develop the team and service delivery.
Duties can be broken down to cover clinical, Communication, administrative responsibilities, leadership, policy and service development, professional and educational and research and service evaluation.
About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key relationships will include management of the City 1 clinical team and managed wait list coordinator holding oversite of patients awaiting team treatment. Working alongside the Community Team Manger Community Matron and Operational Service manager we will work with GPs and other system partners to support those referred in to the secondary mental health team, identifying and assessing treatment pathways for the most complex service users from front door assessment to treatment and discharge.
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!
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key relationships will include management of the City 1 clinical team and managed wait list coordinator holding oversite of patients awaiting team treatment. Working alongside the Community Team Manger Community Matron and Operational Service manager we will work with GPs and other system partners to support those referred in to the secondary mental health team, identifying and assessing treatment pathways for the most complex service users from front door assessment to treatment and discharge.
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!
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
Experiance
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experiance
- Comprehensive experience at local leadership level within speciality.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of current issues in speciality.
- Experience and knowledge of quality standard setting and audit
- Non-medical prescriber.
Qualifications
Essential
- RN (Mental Health or General Nurse) Post registration qualification in specialty Educated to Master's degree level in relevant subject area.
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification.
- Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Independent Prescribing qualification.
Person Specification
Experiance
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experiance
- Comprehensive experience at local leadership level within speciality.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of current issues in speciality.
- Experience and knowledge of quality standard setting and audit
- Non-medical prescriber.
Qualifications
Essential
- RN (Mental Health or General Nurse) Post registration qualification in specialty Educated to Master's degree level in relevant subject area.
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification.
- Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Independent Prescribing qualification.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
