Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist (Non-Medical Prescriber)

Job summary

Are you an experienced and passionate Mental Health Nurse looking for your next challenge? Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families while developing your leadership, prescribing and specialist clinical skills?

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist (Non-Medical Prescriber) to join our dedicated Hampshire CAMHS team. This exciting Band 7 opportunity offers the chance to work within a highly skilled multidisciplinary service, providing specialist mental health assessment, intervention and treatment to children and young people with complex mental health needs.

As a senior clinician within the service, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care, supporting colleagues through supervision and professional guidance, and contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice across the team.

Main duties of the job

To provide comprehensive assessment of mental health specific to needs of service area.

To manage a caseload of clients with complex mental health needs and undertake case management/lead professional/ CPA

To be able to communicate with and meet the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and the individual client.

To have experience of and specialist knowledge on interventions to be able to lead in clinical area.

To receive management supervision

To demonstrate excellent communication skills.

To administer medication within NMC guidelines and the Trusts Medicines Code.

To work in partnership with other agencies to gain the best person-centred outcomes

The post holder will undertake the role of supplementary/independent prescriber, abiding at all times by the restrictions/regulations, Trust policies and procedures, applicable to this role.

The post holder will receive clinical supervision specifically related to their role as a supplementary/independent prescriber and must demonstrate that they keep up to date with contemporary practices in the management of the conditions for which they prescribe.

The post holder will maintain relevant registration and provide evidence of successful completion of a specific education programme(s) to fulfil the role of supplementary/independent prescriber, with appropriate entry on the NMC Register

For full information please see attached Job Description

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence