NHS - Nurse Consultant

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job overview

A very exciting and new opportunity has arisen for a Nurse Consultant to join our Health and Justice Service, to clinically lead and provide high quality nursing care across the HMP Full Sutton and HMP Millsike prison Mental Health Teams.

HMP Full Sutton is a part of the Long Term High Secure prison estate, housing adult male sentenced prisoners. HMP Millsike is a brand new prison, built next door to Full Sutton. Millsike is a category C male prison.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced registered Nurse who has extensive skills and knowledge of delivering psychologically-informed and compassionate care to individuals who come into contact with the criminal justice system.

You will provide expert advice, clinical supervision and training to colleagues and partner organisations and have an opportunity to contribute to research and development projects within the service.

You will be well supported by the Associate Director of Nursing and Service Managers, receiving supervision and professional development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

To build on the development of our prison based clinical pathways and treatment delivery across Health & Justice Services. The service provides high quality and compassion focused care for all of our service users.

You will work within a highly specialised clinical area which will require strategic thinking, interdisciplinary working, a high degree of professional autonomy and critical judgement.

Candidates should have excellent leadership and communication skills and be highly knowledgeable and experienced in working with individuals who suffer from complex mental health problems/ learning disabilities and with a history of trauma, providing and supervising the delivery of highly specialist psychological therapy to clients within the service.

Working for our organisation

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

The Nurse Consultant will be based within our clinical services and be able to work in partnership with both the senior clinical leadership and operational management team and our stakeholder and partners, to ensure that the service operates in a recovery focused way, enabling individuals to achieve their recovery goals.

This position offers the post holder the opportunity to develop both their clinical and leadership skills and be an integral member of the senior leadership team within the H&J Service.

You will need to demonstrate extensive professional development, excellent organisational skills, autonomy, communication and interpersonal skills and be able to contribute to the existing multi-disciplinary teams and internal/external processes in a senior clinical role.

They will also need to be capable of working independently and being adaptable to the changing needs of the organisation.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RNMH/ RNLD, current professional registration with NMC
• Relevant Post-basic clinical qualification(s) with a professional portfolio supporting this.
• Master’s Degree
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Non-medical prescriber (or willingness to achieve within agreed timescale
• Recognised teaching qualification

• Willingness to enroll for doctorate level study

Experience

• Autonomous clinical decision making
• Experience of managing change e.g. implementing new models of care, new pathways, service development activities
• Undertaking research activity
• Goal setting and delivery of targets within deadlines. Working well under pressure, within tight deadlines, and producing good quality results.
• undertaking mental health assessments incorporating biological, psychological, cultural and social perspectives
• leading formulation, review and treatment within the context of the multidisciplinary team
• Assessing capacity to consent to treatment
• Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies including practical application of Care Programme Approach
• Working with patients as covered by the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, MHA Code of Practice
• Developing and delivering training programs and clinical supervision
• Project management of quality and service improvement initiatives.
• Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and nonqualified members of the prof
• Managing multi-agency service delivery models.

Knowledge

• Expert clinical knowledge at advanced practice level in the area of care delivery for service users with complex psychiatric, physical and social co-morbidity, severely challenging behaviours
• Substantial evidence- based practice relevant to the role
• Advanced, in-depth knowledge of research, audit and quality improvement methodologies and their application
• Principles of managing change
• Ability to assess all levels of risk within an evidence based framework
• In-depth applied knowledge in the approved clinician responsible for the care and treatment of mentally disordered people compulsorily detained under the Mental Health Act.
• In-depth applied knowledge in undertaking mental health assessments incorporating biological, psychological, cultural and social perspectives
• In-depth applied knowledge of the Mental Health Act including statutory documentation and legal requirements of written AC reports under the Mental Health Act
• Clinical governance and its application in practice
• Applied knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to the client group Human Rights Act Mental Capcity Act
• Applied knowledge of relevant guidance e.g. NICE
• Social Inclusion agenda
• Quality improvement methodology
• The Trust’s Quality Improvement System (within agreed timescales)

If the contract type on the vacancy states 'Fixed Term' this would mean the vacancy is being advertised to address a temporary need for the duration stipulated on the advert, however, in the event that permanent funding is secured for the post the successful applicant will be confirmed in post on a permanent basis.

Internal applicants must ensure that prior to applying they have agreement from their current line manager that they can be released on a secondment basis.

Trust Welcome Day

Here at Tees, Esk and Wear Valley Foundation NHS Trust we want you to have a positive experience when you start your new role with us. To ensure you have great welcome, for all new starters joining the Trust, we offer two start dates per month on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of that Month.

For certain clinical roles, your Welcome Day could then be followed by up to 9 days face to face training. If this is applicable to you, further information will be provided ahead of your Welcome Day.

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Please note that not everyone needs a ‘Skilled Worker’ visa. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead.

We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers here: Skilled Worker visa: Your job - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and for the Health and Care Worker visa here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are in the UK already on a visa, please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post.

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Newly Qualified Nurses

All band 5 nursing positions are only open to those candidates who already have their NMC registration in place and have successfully completed a preceptorship programme. Please note: Newly qualified applicants or those due to qualify will be recruited via a separate process, for more information about this process please contact: [email protected]

TEWV encourages and supports all staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the protection of staff, service users and visitors to the Trust from second hand smoke and currently operates a no smoking policy which ensures all buildings and grounds are smoke free.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from individuals who have experience of mental ill health or learning disabilities. Our service users and carers tell us our staff should be consistently concerned with maintaining and improving care with pride, empathy and compassion.

This job advert may close as soon as sufficient suitable applications have been received. If interested please apply for this post as soon as possible.

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