Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
• Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic/ psychological interventions

Desirable

• Qualified non-medical prescriber
• Clinical supervision training

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 5 years post qualification experience
• Minimum 3 years post qualification experience working with service users with serious mental illness
• Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning for women with serious mental illness
• Experience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
• Experience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency context
• Minimum 2/3 years' experience working in crisis services/A&E/In Patient unit
• Experience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
• Experience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters

Desirable

• Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
• Experience of supervising mental health professionals and/or practice teaching
• Experience of contributing to policies and procedures
• Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Ability to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
• Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
• Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
• Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
• Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal mental health services

Desirable

• Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
• Understanding of clinical governance and audit issues
• Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

City & Hackney Centre for Mental Health Perinatal Outpatient

Homerton Row

London

E9 6SR

Employer's website

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)