Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 per annum including outer London HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 June 2025 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7131527/391-NMUH-7131527 |
Summary
The Care Homes Assessment Team (CHAT) is an award-winning integrated physical and mental health service that supports the lives and deaths of residents in Care Homes across Enfield and part of Haringey. CHAT is part of Enfield Community Services (ECS) which is hosted by NMUH. The team has dedicated Consultant Psychiatry support and a mental health band 7 RMN and OT all currently supporting residents in Care Homes. We are looking for a flexible, dynamic and experienced band 7 Mental Health Specialist Nurse to join our team due to maternity leave of the current post holder. We are a supportive team and organisation and are looking for someone with assessment and diagnosis skills, independent prescribing is desirable but if not already prescribing a willingness to undertake this qualification is essential, experience working with dementia or older people with mental health and/or learning disabilities in the Care Home setting is essential and experience of having sensitive future care planning conversations and supporting end of life. The service operates 7 days a week 8am-8pm but shift patterns for this role will be 8am-4pm or 9am-5pm.
To expertly assess patients including systemic mental health assessments, analysing signs and symptoms and other measures of function to formulate diagnosis, treatment and referral where appropriate to the identified group of patients resident in a specific group of Care Homes. To develop individualised evidence based care and treatment plans for the patients in close discussion with them, their relatives and the Care Home staff; and with consideration of the unique presentation of psychological illness and response to treatment of elderly people with suspected or known mental health diagnosis. To agree appropriate interventions and contingency plans, including end of life care, with the patients and carers, both formal and informal, with the specific purpose of preventing unnecessary A&E attendance or hospital admission and improving end of life care. To support an unplanned care telephone triage service to the homes in Enfield providing advice and organising assessment of patients as necessary. To facilitate the review of patients’ medications, in consultation with the GP/psychiatrist, as appropriate, especially where there is evidence of polypharmacy within own scope of practice. Proactively promote safety and report concerns via established safeguarding information panel and safeguarding pathways to the Local Authority. Including attending strategy meetings, information gathering meetings and sharing information to protect vulnerable Care Home residents.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Friday 23 May 2025