I&A Nurse Consultant

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Nurse Consultant in Mental Health to provide expert clinical and professional leadership within our Intensive and Assertive Team. This new Trust-wide service will deliver care to service users with complex psychosis, who have experienced challenges engaging with traditional services, who require a flexible, intensive approach to care. The postholder will work at a senior nurse consultant level of advanced practice, providing expert assessment, formulation, clinical decision-making and leadership for people with highly complex mental health needs. The role will include responsibilities as a Non-Medical Approved Clinician (AC) and senior oversight of people subject to Community Treatment Orders (CTOs), in accordance with the Mental Health Act and the individual's scope of practice. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate capability across the four pillars of the NHSE Mutli-professional framework for consultant level practice: clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research/evidence-based practice.,

• Provide expert autonomous clinical practice for people with complex and enduring mental health needs who present with uncertain risk.
• Undertake advanced assessment, formulation, risk assessment and complex clinical decision-making, and delivering evidence-based interventions.
• Practise as a Non-Medical Approved Clinician.
• Prescribe, optimise and monitor medication, including initiating evidence-based pharmacological interventions within an agreed scope of practice.
• Provide senior clinical oversight of the care and treatment of people subject to CTOs.
• Act as an expert practitioner and professional resource within their field of practice.
• Provide visible clinical and professional leadership across the multidisciplinary team.
• Promote recovery-focused, trauma-informed and least-restrictive practice.
• Provide expert consultation, supervision, coaching and education to nursing and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Lead and contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement, service development and patient safety.
• Use research, audit, evaluation and evidence to develop clinical practice and improve outcomes.
• Contribute to the development of advanced practice and nursing leadership across community mental health services.
• Act as a strategic clinical representative of the Trust, in liaison with statutory and voluntary agencies.
  
  At Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, inclusion is at the heart of how we work. We are committed to creating a fair, transparent and accessible recruitment process where every candidate has the opportunity to succeed.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, particularly those currently underrepresented in our workforce, including those from the global majority. We recognise that not everyone has equal access to opportunities and are working to address this. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and ensuring all candidates receive a positive and equitable experience. Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive. Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.