Clinical Specialist Nurse

The successful applicant will be responsible for delivering a high standard of clinical leadership to the team; ensuring clinical standards are maintained in the delivery of care across all aspects of the service. The nature of this work requires a calm, consistent approach to some challenging clinical situations alongside a willingness to be compassionate, creative and flexible in delivering clinical care.

The successful applicant will be required to contribute to and lead ongoing service development and offer clinical supervision to staff members. The ability to make balanced decisions and use positive risk-taking approaches, whilst managing potentially high-pressured situations is an essential part of this role.

Acting as a resource in providing specialist advice, training, guidance and consultation to the team and partner agencies is also an integral aspect of the role. The applicant will be an essential member of the multi-disciplinary team and will be able to facilitate the co-coordination of care on a multi-disciplinary basis to the patients under our care.

The successful applicant will also be responsible for the planning and delivery of supervision, appraisal and support to members of the community teams.

The Clinical Specialist Nurse will take a lead role in delivery of Structured Clinical Management to the patients and carers we support. This will include supervision of clinicians and playing an active role in clinical decision making.

The post holder will contribute to the planning, oversight and provision of expert care and support to all patients who are under the care of the two teams, providing evidenced based interventions based on need. The post holder will also formulate plans of care within the multi-disciplinary team and negotiate implementations of such plans and the sharing of complex, sensitive and confidential information.

The post holder will also act as key worker or co-worker for a group of patients.

This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.

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.

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