Senior Nurse Practitioner - ref. f48227703

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 6 Senior Nurse Practitioner to join an established nursing team within the Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team (GMSST), which provides a service across Greater Manchester to service users with a learning disability and/or autism who present with risk of hospital admission, placement breakdown or forensic risk.

You will be expected to work in all areas of Greater Manchester and liaise with the local Learning Disability, Mental Health and Autism services to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation support, as well as discharge support for current inpatients.

We also offer advice and consultation and training to external agencies.

Main duties of the job

To support the delivery of high quality specialist assessment and intervention in the development of effective clinical services to meet the complex needs of people with behaviour that challenges particularly those whose behaviour presents serious risks to the community.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, the senior nurse practitioner will be responsible for managing their own caseload of individuals at risk of hospital admission, placement breakdown or criminal justice contact.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

1. To carry a clinical caseload for the SST with individuals who present behaviour that challenges or where there is a risk of offending.
2. Under direction undertake a thorough assessment of new referrals using a range of tools.
3. Under direction provide comprehensive risk assessment of offending and/or other complex behaviours.
4. To carry out initial assessments with service users who are referred to the SST.
5. To develop Risk Management Plans including strategies and recommendations.
6. Contribute to the development of a formulation of offending behaviour and/or risk.
7. To support the implementation of specialist therapeutic

1. To evaluate the outcome of any interventions.
2. Develop detailed service specifications when planning discharges from hospital settings or when seeking alternative placements in community settings.
3. To disseminate the Positive Behavioural Support model in delivery of care.
4. To provide advice and support to staff teams to maintain consistency in the overall management and response to risky or challenging behaviour.
5. To undertake on occasions urgent or emergency assessments, including risk assessments.
6. To provide recommendations for a gate keeping assessment where appropriate.
7. To support and lead on the development of contingency plans for crisis and relapses.
8. To organise own workload and work schedule.
9. To provide clinical and managerial supervision to junior members of staff.
10. To act as supervisor, assessor and mentor for students, nurses and junior staff.
11. To facilitate the education of service users, relatives and other agencies concerned with provision of learning disability services in the community.
12. To be involved in the development of training / information resources for partner agencies in the area of Learning Disabilities and Mental Health difficulties.
13. To ensure Safeguarding requirements are upheld.
14. To organise and chair regular staff meetings and other forums as appropriate.
15. To ensure effective communication between Health Services, Criminal Justice Services, Social Services and the Third Sector, and the co-ordination of other services as appropriate.
16. To undertake duties as may be delegated by the Team Manager.
17. To utilise theory, evidenced based literature and research to support practice.
18. To contribute to the evidence base by leading and participating in research and audits whenever possible.
19. To work across a variety of services and contexts, including prisons, secure services and psychiatric services as well as service users own homes in the community.

Person specification

Qualifications

• 1st level Nurse Registration in either Learning Disability or Mental Health.
• Degree/Diploma (or experience or knowledge that is equivalent)

Skills

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Ability to work on own and to work to set and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in a multiagency context
• Able to work autonomously and on own initiative, prioritise and manage own time effectively.
• Skills in the assessment of complex behaviours using a variety of methods.
• Skills in the designing of intervention and management plans, evaluation and monitoring.
• Driving Licence
• Able to recognise limits of own competency and when to seek supervision.

Knowledge

• Minimum eighteen months post registration experience to include having worked with people with learning disabilities and or autism who have who offended. Experience of communicating with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations.
• Experience of working with individuals who have complex needs.
• Experience in the use of forensic risk assessment and management.
• A good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, DOLs, Safeguarding and the legal frameworks applicable to working with offenders in a community setting.
• An understanding of the Criminal Justice process.
• Experience of interagency working
• Experience of providing management and clinical supervision.

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

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