Senior Specialist Nurse

You will carry a caseload of the most complex service users in the service, and provide senior nursing leadership and consultation to nurses and other professionals. You will, therefore, be required to have significant clinical skills and knowledge underpinned by experience and specialist training / academic study.
You will lead on the assessment of physical health care needs of service users and ensure that on-going physical health monitoring is undertaken as per Trust policy.
You will ensure practices are in place that support learning and development across the team.
You will work with the Team and Service Manager to foster a culture of curiosity, empowerment, and service improvement., Carry a small caseload of the most complex service users in the service
Lead on the delivery of nursing interventions to support service users' physical and mental wellbeing
Provide direct supervision to nurses and other health professionals within the CMHT
Lead on nursing professional development
Organise/ deliver specialist training to nurses and other members of the MDT
Work closely with the Consultant, Team Manager, and Service Manager to ensure care is delivered in accordance with national policies and best practice guidelines.
Promote a culture that fosters staff involvement and a progressive attitude to service improvement

We are the Islington Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), a highly motivated multi-disciplinary team focused on working together to support our service users to improve their quality of life. Our service users are older adults with severe mental illness and frailty, or dementia with behaviour that challenges.
We provide health and social care interventions and work with service users and their families/ carers to ensure they are at the heart of everything we do .
We are looking to recruit a Senior Specialist Nurse who has strong clinical and leadership skills, who shares our passion to strive towards excellence in older people's mental health and dementia care, and has a keen interest in service development and improvement.

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
+ We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
+ Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
+ Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
+ Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
+ We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
+ Generous Annual Leave Allowance
+ NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
+ We have excellent internal staff network support groups.