Senior Nurse Practitioner With Non-Medical Prescribing Responsibility

Job overview
We are looking for a Senior Nurse Practitioner/Non-medical Prescriber to join our Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment team (CRHT) in Hastings. We want to support nursing development within our service and welcome applications from individuals who have already completed their Non -Medical prescribing or those who are willing to complete the necessary training and apply within the first year of employment. This will require you to demonstrate the ability to study as a minimum at degree level (qualification level 6/7 or as part of enhanced practice pathway).
The role will involve working with people who have been referred to CRHT via Urgent Care Services (Mental Health Liaison Service, The Haven, Street Triage), Assessment and Treatment Service in Hastings, GP, and some third sector partner Services. It also involves working with people who are experiencing a mental health crisis and require our support. The aim of our service is to ensure that patients are assessed and are able to access care as quickly as possible and to ensure that they are able to access the correct treatment pathway.
This is an exciting time for Hastings services as we start our community transformation work and unique workforce planning to enhance our multidisciplinary team in order to meet the needs of our community.
This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).
Main duties of the job
We are a highly clinically skilled team who provide dynamic and comprehensive assessment, treatment and care to people in mental health crisis that come into contact with Sussex Police and other emergency services.
You will need to have the skills and qualities to be able to work autonomously as a senior mental health Practitioner with an ability to assess people's mental health/ complex presentations, presenting risks and be able to formulate effective plans and strategies to meet and manage the risk involving liaison with the service user, family and emergency colleagues. You will need to be able to give specialist mental health advice, be able to liaise with clinical services and relevant agencies as part of the Blue Light Service and contribute to service development. The environment is fast paced and very demanding. You will need to have a good understanding of mental health across all services (Primary, secondary, crisis care).
You will be expected to undertake the role of independent prescriber within the service which will improve access to treatment and support a more efficient way of working.
You will be working closely with existing current team members in identifying best use of resources in a needs led service utilising patient focused evidenced interventions.
Working for our organisation
The successful candidate will be given a two week induction programme and will be supported by the service in order to help your integration in to the team and work environment. You will also be expected to work shift patterns that cover 7 days.
You will be joining a committed and dynamic multidisciplinary team and will be fully supported and empowered to make a difference to creatively develop many new ways of working, towards building safe and responsive quality mental health services fit for the future.
In return, we can offer a supportive and flexible working environment and access to training opportunities to assist you to realise your potential and achieve a greater degree of job satisfaction.
As a Trust employee you will enjoy the following:

• Excellent starting salary
• NHS Pension contributions
• 27 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Flexible Working patterns
• Child care vouchers
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• NHS Discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme

This post offers an incentive, or a Relocation package up to a maximum of £4000 (pro rata applies and subject to terms and conditions).
We invite applications from those with a minimum of 3 years' experience of assessment and working with people who present with acute mental health issues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
NMP Course Requirements
Applicants must provide evidence that they have met the criteria for eligibility to undertake an independent/supplementary prescribing module as follows
All applicants must:

• Have a valid registration with their professional body.
• Be appointed to a substantive post where they will have the need and opportunity to act as an independent / supplementary prescriber upon qualification.
• Demonstrate the ability to study as a minimum at degree level (qualification level 6/7 or as part of enhanced practice pathway)
• Have completed a DBS check within the last 3 years (NMC requirement)
• Be able to provide evidence of numeracy skills e.g. GCSE Maths.
• Identify a DPP who will be willing and able to contribute to and supervise the 'learning in practice' element of their training and provide post qualification clinical supervision.
• Be able to demonstrate competence to prescribe in the clinical area in which they will prescribe following training.
• Provide evidence of competence in history taking, undertaking a clinical assessment and making a diagnosis i.e. comprehensively assess a patient's psychological and physiological condition, understand the underlying pathology and identify the appropriate medicines regime.

Registered nurses:

• Have two years post-registration clinical experience, of which at least one year immediately preceding their application to the training programme should be in the clinical area in which they intend to prescribe.
• Must be allocated a DPP as practice assessor and a separate supervisor

Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role
• Degree/diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to masters level equivalent relevant to the care group
• Evidence of post registration training in relevant service area
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Supplementary/Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Module (level 3)
• Extensive post qualifying experience in relevant service area
• Experience of supervising staff and students
• Able to manage a caseload of patients with complex mental health needs
• Comprehensive knowledge of interventions specific to service area
• Awareness of Trust policies and service specification
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with staff, patients, families, carers and professionals
• Able to establish links with other services and professionals
• Able to effectively manage risk
• To have a good knowledge of service objectives and to understand performance reports and how they relate to team
• Able to manage and delegate tasks; participate in service development; able to lead clinical discussions in team; able to undertake audit activity; able to plan staff rotas as needed
• To provide supervision for Nursing staff including clinical, and professional; to develop training sessions for staff, students, professionals and agencies; to participate in staff recruitment and selection, absence management and other staff related issues; to understand and manage team dynamics
• Able to use IT systems competently
• Physically fit to undertake duties related to service area
• Able to prioritise workload, plan and organise diary, and manage report writing, attendance at clinical meetings, supervise colleagues, assess patients
• Able to manage distressing and emotional situations involving staff and patients, manage and deal with complaints, incidents and SIs
• Aware of policies governing area of work, able to travel to other locations county-wide, demonstrate support for values of the Trust, team player, punctual and flexible

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.