Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist and Non-Medical Prescriber
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £50,056 This post will pay at band 6 until staff member is qualified |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG5 3FL |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6208028/186-457-24-MH |
Summary
A Vacancy at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.
The Mental Health division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust comprises of three directorates; Adult Mental Health, Mental Health Services for Older People and Specialist Services. More than 2,800 dedicated staff provide vital and integral healthcare services for our patients in a variety of settings, ranging from community through to acute wards, covering a vast geographical area.
We’re investing heavily in our staff, facilities and patient care. As we move into this new chapter, we need a strong, motivated and compassionate workforce to reflect our core values of Honesty, Compassion, Trust, Respect and Teamwork. There has never been a better time to join our growing team.
We have exciting opportunities across different specialities and services, with an emphasis on career development and progression. We want to help our staff reach their full potential, and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to succeed.
The Community Perinatal Psychiatry Team are part of the Specialist Services directorate and co-located on the Hopewood site with Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services. We are a Nationally Accredited Service with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. We provide assessment and treatment to women with a range of mental health needs related to the perinatal period. The Team provides a service to the City and County of Nottinghamshire and Bassetlaw with clinics located across this geography.
Our core purpose is to work with expectant mothers and mothers to address their mental health needs and mitigate any impact on the unborn baby and infant. We aim to improve the health outcomes for mothers with the provision of a timely, integrated, high quality, effective, multi-disciplinary interventions.
We aim to appoint two candidates, one to work in the Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Bassetlaw area and the other to work in the County South and City
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Perinatal Mental Health Services has received extensive investment in recent years, recognising the importance on public health in treating mental health problems in the perinatal period. We are looking for an enthusiastic, diligent, and experienced Mental Health Nurse who is a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber, or has the demonstrable capacity to train in this specialism. The appointed candidates will have the ability to manage complex situations. Sound therapeutic strategies, combined with the ability to communicate well both verbally and in writing are essential. You will have experience of working with mothers with perinatal illness and some knowledge of normal child development in order to understand the potential impact of untreated maternal mental illness on the developing foetus/infant/children. You will have the ability to liaise effectively with various health, social and voluntary professionals. A sound working knowledge of Safeguarding is also required. This post offers a supportive team working environment, with commitment to supervision.
1. To provide specialist mental health assessments, and formulation and a wide range of clinical interventions for women in the perinatal period.
2. To provide a highly specialist mental health prescribing service for women within the Perinatal CMHT. Where extreme clinical diagnostic uncertainty is not present, and where cases can be safely and effectively managed within a nursing and non-medical prescribing framework.
3. To ensure all baseline tests and investigations are carried out in accordance with national and local guidelines leading to a timely diagnosis / hypothesis in collaboration with the MDT.
4. To prescribe accordingly, discussing all treatment options, (including non-pharmacological treatments) potential side effects with women in the perinatal period and address issues of consent and capacity.
5. To establish highly specialised clinical management treatment plans and reviews.
6. To provide specialist assessment, formulation and treatment for women in the perinatal period.
7. To provide advice and support to others in delivering a range of therapeutic interventions that support the woman and her family/carer to maintain skills, health and well being.
8. To manage risk in accordance with CPA and clinical governance and record interventions as required by the Trust.
9. To provide a seamless and integrated service that is flexible, holistic and responsive to the needs of the individual and their partners/carers
10. Promote social inclusion by reducing stigmatization.
11. To support the development and leadership of the Perinatal Complex Trauma Pathway
12. To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
13. To support the wider leadership team in the development and delivery of perinatal specific training to our health and third sector colleagues.
14. To contribute to pre and post qualification teaching to students, as appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.
The Mental Health division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust comprises of three directorates; Adult Mental Health, Mental Health Services for Older People and Specialist Services. More than 2,800 dedicated staff provide vital and integral healthcare services for our patients in a variety of settings, ranging from community through to acute wards, covering a vast geographical area.
We’re investing heavily in our staff, facilities and patient care. As we move into this new chapter, we need a strong, motivated and compassionate workforce to reflect our core values of Honesty, Compassion, Trust, Respect and Teamwork. There has never been a better time to join our growing team.
We have exciting opportunities across different specialities and services, with an emphasis on career development and progression. We want to help our staff reach their full potential, and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to succeed.
The Community Perinatal Psychiatry Team are part of the Specialist Services directorate and co-located on the Hopewood site with Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services. We are a Nationally Accredited Service with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. We provide assessment and treatment to women with a range of mental health needs related to the perinatal period. The Team provides a service to the City and County of Nottinghamshire and Bassetlaw with clinics located across this geography.
Our core purpose is to work with expectant mothers and mothers to address their mental health needs and mitigate any impact on the unborn baby and infant. We aim to improve the health outcomes for mothers with the provision of a timely, integrated, high quality, effective, multi-disciplinary interventions.
We aim to appoint two candidates, one to work in the Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Bassetlaw area and the other to work in the County South and City
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Perinatal Mental Health Services has received extensive investment in recent years, recognising the importance on public health in treating mental health problems in the perinatal period. We are looking for an enthusiastic, diligent, and experienced Mental Health Nurse who is a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber, or has the demonstrable capacity to train in this specialism. The appointed candidates will have the ability to manage complex situations. Sound therapeutic strategies, combined with the ability to communicate well both verbally and in writing are essential. You will have experience of working with mothers with perinatal illness and some knowledge of normal child development in order to understand the potential impact of untreated maternal mental illness on the developing foetus/infant/children. You will have the ability to liaise effectively with various health, social and voluntary professionals. A sound working knowledge of Safeguarding is also required. This post offers a supportive team working environment, with commitment to supervision.
1. To provide specialist mental health assessments, and formulation and a wide range of clinical interventions for women in the perinatal period.
2. To provide a highly specialist mental health prescribing service for women within the Perinatal CMHT. Where extreme clinical diagnostic uncertainty is not present, and where cases can be safely and effectively managed within a nursing and non-medical prescribing framework.
3. To ensure all baseline tests and investigations are carried out in accordance with national and local guidelines leading to a timely diagnosis / hypothesis in collaboration with the MDT.
4. To prescribe accordingly, discussing all treatment options, (including non-pharmacological treatments) potential side effects with women in the perinatal period and address issues of consent and capacity.
5. To establish highly specialised clinical management treatment plans and reviews.
6. To provide specialist assessment, formulation and treatment for women in the perinatal period.
7. To provide advice and support to others in delivering a range of therapeutic interventions that support the woman and her family/carer to maintain skills, health and well being.
8. To manage risk in accordance with CPA and clinical governance and record interventions as required by the Trust.
9. To provide a seamless and integrated service that is flexible, holistic and responsive to the needs of the individual and their partners/carers
10. Promote social inclusion by reducing stigmatization.
11. To support the development and leadership of the Perinatal Complex Trauma Pathway
12. To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
13. To support the wider leadership team in the development and delivery of perinatal specific training to our health and third sector colleagues.
14. To contribute to pre and post qualification teaching to students, as appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024
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