Clinical Nurse Specialist inBury St Edmunds inBury St Edmunds PUBLISHED
TUE 5 NOV 2024
The organisation emphasises continued professional development, offering regular supervision, an extensive training program, and a comprehensive induction process. Benefits of the role include a competitive NHS pension, generous annual leave starting at 27 days, access to physiotherapy services, and various NHS discounts. Applicants looking to make a significant impact in mental health care are encouraged to apply.
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Abbeygate Ward
Is it your passion to work creatively to provide Mental Health support to older adults on an inpatient ward within Wedgwood House? Would you like to work in a dynamic, creative and committed multi-disciplinary team? Are you a highly motivated, compassionate and dedicated mental health professional?
We are excited to have an opportunity for a clinical nurse specialist to join our established team in Bury St Edmunds.
You must be able to demonstrate a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach to working with our service users.
As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking audits whilst promoting quality care, working collaboratively with individuals and other supporting agencies to manage needs on discharge from hospital as well as leading the team by example to demonstrate high quality care.
This role will give you the time and facilities to make a difference. You will have the ability to offer and support the team with person-centred care whilst building trusting relationships to increase engagement with individuals suffering from severe mental illness during the admission process. The main duties are:
- Monitoring patients mental state and to support formulating working diagnoses, with effective treatment plans, developed by the MDT.
- Working alongside the MDT to promote pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment plans for a range of mental health conditions such as psychotic disorders, affective disorders, insomnia, personality disorders and anxiety disorders and organic diagnosis.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of assessment and treatment
- Evaluate and promote the writing of collaborative care plans, support discharge plans and provide assurance of the quality of care that is offered to the older adult.
- Work collaboratively within and across the MDT and other agencies.
- Manage and hold responsibility of complex cases.
- Clinical leadership for the staff within the ward team
In turn we will provide you with regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We provide a full induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.
About us
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!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
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.
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