Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 Per annum including Outer HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, N15 3TH |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7131234/455-NLFT-0052 |
Summary
Job Title
Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band
7
Department
Older Adult Services
Location & Mobility
Your normalplace of work will be Victoria Unit, St Ann’s Hospital. However, you may be required to work at any other location of the Trusts interests, including travelling to appropriate meetings, outside of the borough, asrequired, during the core operating hours of 8am – 8pm.
Accountable To
Service Manager
Responsible To
Haringey Division Senior Service Lead
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
Internal: HaringeyCommunityTeams,UrgentCarePathway.
External: HaringeyLocalAuthority,GPs,VoluntarySectorProviders, HaringeyICB, HousingProviders
• To provide a professional leadership role in Haringey Older Persons Services (CMHT & HMS) to ensure that staff work in partnership to provide an integrated community mental health service to the older people of Haringey.
• To provide clinical and managerial supervision within the services and be responsible for ensuring that individuals also receive education and support in specialist matters relating to the individual’s professional background.
• To jointly ensure the care and interventions provided within the Haringey Older Persons Services are evidence based and in accordance with NICE guidance.
• To lead in implementing evidence-based specialist mental health assessments in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
• To maintain a role of care manager / care coordinator for a small number of service users whose range of needs require ‘complex’ arrangements of care.
• To lead and as appropriate coordinate matters relating to the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults and children.
• To deputise for the Haringey Older Persons Services Manager or Haringey Memory Service Lead or CMHT lead as required.
• Be responsible for effective clinical and managerial communication within Older Persons Service, including communication with the wider MDT and medical team for the service.
• Provide expert clinical leadership, advice, support and liaison, education, and training to other staff.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
• To oversee the referral and allocation process for new referrals received by the service.
• To supervise and support members of the team in completing assessments and the drawing up of individual care plans, which take account of risk assessments and individuals psychological needs.
• To ensure procedures are in place so that discharges or transfers of care are progressed in a safe and timely manner by the team.
• To maintain a role as care manager / care coordinator for a small number of service users whose range of needs require ‘complex’ arrangements of care.
• To coordinate routine physical health monitoring for service users in Older Adult Services.
• To maintain clear, comprehensive, and contemporaneous clinical records on all patients in accordance with professional standards and Trust policies and to write appropriate reports, maintain records and produce correspondence in accordance with the Trust policies on Case Recording and Confidentiality and Data Protection Act.
• To use and enhance Information Technology skills to directly enter client information on the Trusts electronic databases and where necessary produce reports and correspondence
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Monday 26 May 2025