Independent Non Medical Prescriber Job Bristol area,England UK,Healthcare

Overview

We are a large team that covers the south of Bristol area. We are motivated, friendly and supportive, and passionate about delivering evidence based interventions to the service users in our community. We have a diverse service user population including the University of the West of England, Approved Premises and high levels of supported housing projects who support service users with complex emotional needs, forensic histories and service users subject to Ministry of Justice restrictions.

You will be well supported operationally by the Team Manager to enable you to thrive in your clinical role. You will also have the support from the senior practitioners at our Petherton office base. Our office is situated at Petherton Road with free parking and access to pool cars and electric bikes for clinical staff to support easy access into the clean air zone and all areas of our community.

As an NMP you will work closely with the Consultant Psychiatrist and the Senior Practitioner to demonstrate extensive clinical experience and knowledge to contribute to the MDT. You will be able to manage complex cases autonomously as well as providing supervision and support to junior staff in the team. Your prescribing expertise will enable you to undertake assessments and prescribe independently within the team.

You will ensure excellent clinical standards are maintained within the team. Effective caseload management will be underpinned by robust and effective individual supervision and leadership of clinical meetings.

Responsibilities

To lead and inspire the team to deliver a high quality and effective recovery service for service users and carers.

To provide clinical leadership to ensure where appropriate the service will work effectively alongside other services, to manage risk and prevent hospital admission for service users with the most complex and acute needs.

To undertake and support the specialist ongoing assessment of physiological and/or psychological functioning for service users with the most complex and health and wellbeing needs. This may include:

The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV.
The Recovery Star.
History, strengths and aspirations.
Mental state.
Impact of culture and diversity.
Functional needs.
The needs of family and carer.
Evaluation of risk.
Physical health.
Complicating factors.
The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
Social care needs.
Safeguarding and public protection.
Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.

To be responsible for, both individually and within the team, the development, delivery and review of comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence-based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

Within sphere of expertise, and advanced practice, to be responsible for coordinating care for a small number of service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

To plan, deliver, and evaluate defined advanced specialist therapeutic interventions within sphere of expertise, including to service users who may be on other caseloads. This might include:

Family intervention.
Psychological therapies such as CBT.
Medication management.
Interventions under the Mental Health Act.

To oversee and deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers' ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

To lead, in partnership with the team manager, ensuring the service develops and maintains excellent clinical standards, and effective caseload supervision, underpinned by robust and effective individual and team supervision processes.

To oversee and ensure, across the team, there are effective risk management plans and strategies, for service users and carers, taking account of risks to service users, carers, the organisation, staff and the public.

In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible, across the service for facilitating and ensuring the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc., involving other agencies such as primary care etc. where appropriate.

To develop and maintain, good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of people/services/agencies about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing, developing or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carer and the service.

To represent the organisation in a range of settings, presenting, facilitating or explaining as appropriate and dealing with any questions or…


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