Clinical Nurse Specialist

An exciting opportunity for the post of Clinical Nurse Specialist has become vacant within Adult Community Mental Health Services in Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire

• Taking responsibility for making a significant contribution to the nursing input, participating fully in the referral and allocation process, assessments, treatment, risk management, safeguarding vulnerable children and adults, care coordination of service users as well as contributing to case discussions and service related meetings.
• offering consultations and supervision to colleagues and students as well as staff in other services.

The post holder will take responsibility for making a significant contribution to the delivery of high quality nursing care within the service. The role involves full participation in referral triage and allocation processes; undertaking comprehensive assessments; planning and delivering evidence based treatment and care interventions; and leading on risk assessment, risk management.

The post holder will provide senior clinical governance and leadership for nurse led clinics, including Depot, Clozapine, Olanzapine, and Physical Health Clinics.

Work in partnership with Matrons to ensure consistent, high quality nursing practice and the safe use of high risk medications.

Lead audit, quality improvement, and incident learning, ensuring clinical documentation and pathways meet professional, legal, and organisational standards.

The post holder will be responsible for professional decision making, including the investigation and management of safeguarding concerns, and oversight of safeguarding responsibilities for vulnerable children and adults.

The post holder will coordinate care for a defined caseload of service users, contributing to multidisciplinary case discussions, clinical decision making, and service related meetings, while supporting the ongoing development and effectiveness of the service.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

Our Trust Values Are

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cassie Scott Job title: Clinical Matron Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: View phone number on uk.workus.org