Job summary
The North Locality has an exciting opportunity for a motivated, values driven and passionate nurse for the role as Nurse Consultant. The opportunity is in the Access Clinical Business Unit.
The Nurse Consultant will have significant clinical experience and a proven record of leadership, change management and innovation. The role will encompass expert clinical nursing care along with key responsibilities for service developments, education and training, professional leadership and consultancy.
As a senior clinician you will exercise autonomy and provide appropriate clinical assessment, formulation and interventions. You will demonstrate excellent communication skills, working collaboratively with service users, families, operational teams and outside agencies to achieve best possible outcomes.
It is essential that the successful candidate will need to be a confident Non-Medical Prescriber, First level Registered Nurse, and have a Postgraduate qualification at Masters level or equivalent experience. The candidate should also have evidence of experience in therapeutic interventions relevant to the specialty, i.e. Nurse Prescribing, CBT, DBT, PSI, EFT, NLP and Family Interventions, Group work and will have Advanced level therapeutic training in one of the above modalities.
It is desirable for the applicant to be an Approved Clinician or be willing to work towards this.
Main duties of the job
As a Nurse Consultant, the post holder will contribute to the strategic direction for the development of nursing practice within Community Mental Health services, and more generally across the community services group and the Trust. They will also take the lead in extending boundaries and creating frameworks for the enhancement of nursing within their specialty. The post holder will also continue to strive towards excellence in nursing care and communicate this excellence to colleagues both within the organisation and externally.
The post holder will provide:
- 'Expert clinical practice' within the service for at least 50% of the post, ideally including undertaking training and taking on the Responsible Clinician role in practice:
- Professional leadership and consultancy, including clinical supervision
- Education, training and development of staff, and a range of other agencies, statutory and non-statutory in management and treatment services for people presenting to the community services
- Research into various aspects of service provision and service evaluation which involves this client group.
The post holder will be a key member of the senior clinical and management team.
To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the therapy of clients ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions communicating with all involved with the care on a regular basis.
About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented, and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information and informal discussion please contact:
Laura Jobson Associate Director Access North laura.jobson@cntw.nhs.uk
Sheree McCartney Group Nurse Director - sheree.mccartney@cntw.nhs.uk
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 7th December 2023
Closing date : 21st December 2023
We welcome your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information and informal discussion please contact:
Laura Jobson Associate Director Access North laura.jobson@cntw.nhs.uk
Sheree McCartney Group Nurse Director - sheree.mccartney@cntw.nhs.uk
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 7th December 2023
Closing date : 21st December 2023
We welcome your application.
Person Specification
clinical skills
Essential
- Advanced level clinical skills and evidence- based interventions
- evidence of advanced clinical skills. Evidence of therapeutic intervention/non medical prescribing qualification
clinical judgement skills
Essential
- This will involve the ability to interpret, analyse and make judgements based on highly complex information.
strong communication skills
Essential
- oAdvanced level communication skills -ability to remain flexible, articulate vision, to negotiate and deal with conflict, antagonism and barriers to understanding
Research, audit and writing skills
Essential
- continuing professional development and report writing
effective change management and leadership
Essential
- Change agent and leadership skills
Person Specification
clinical skills
Essential
- Advanced level clinical skills and evidence- based interventions
- evidence of advanced clinical skills. Evidence of therapeutic intervention/non medical prescribing qualification
clinical judgement skills
Essential
- This will involve the ability to interpret, analyse and make judgements based on highly complex information.
strong communication skills
Essential
- oAdvanced level communication skills -ability to remain flexible, articulate vision, to negotiate and deal with conflict, antagonism and barriers to understanding
Research, audit and writing skills
Essential
- continuing professional development and report writing
effective change management and leadership
Essential
- Change agent and leadership skills
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).
