NHS - Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together?If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
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Job overview
Do you want to improve our patient care and experience?
Do you enjoy developing nurses and our advance clinicians for the future?
Do you enjoy working as part of an MDT?
If you have answered yes then please apply for our exciting opportunity for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to work within the Crisis and Resolution Home Treatment Team, based at Hellesdon Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The team will consist of a variety of highly skilled professionals including nursing, support staff, medical, psychology and occupational health colleagues. You will work closely with all of them to ensure the care we provide is not only outstanding but that the team is well developed and supported.
We would expect you to -- Act as a role model to what outstanding care should look like.
- Support and mentor clinical staff to deliver person centred care.
- Provide family and carers with assurance that their loved one is being supported and looked after.
- Work within a supportive management team to improve patient journey through secondary care services.
- Undertake clinical audits and screenings
- Provide Line Managed Supervision, including in depth caseload reviews.
- Supporting safe and effective discharges.
- Providing medication reviews.
- Undertaking assessments as and when required.
- Supporting with 72 hour follow up.
- Independently undertake complex prescribing reviews
- Confidence in acute risk management
- Provide clinical leadership to the team
Working for our organisation
Benefits
Included with this role are:
- 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
- gym membership
NHS discounts and many more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our Trust is striving to ensure that staff have access to development opportunities, and you can benefit from this. In this role you will also support other staff to develop and learn, to ensure we have a highly skilled workforce who are happy in their roles.
Our service is responsive, and there is potential for flexible working hours within the role. This role will incorporate evidencing the role and how it benefits patient care in the community.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- RN Mental Health or General Nurse
- Post registration qualification in speciality Educated to Master’s degree level in relevant subject area
- Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescribing qualification
Skills
Essential criteria- Experience of working in an acute setting
- Experience in managing complaints and quality assurance
Experience
Essential criteria- Minimum 5 years post registration experience
- Experience and knowledge of quality standard setting and audit
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.