Non Medical Prescriber

6 month Maternity Leave Cover Post - SECONDMENT OPPOTUNITY

We are looking for a Mental Health Clinician, with extensive adult community mental health knowledge, who has completed their Non-Medical Prescribing Course, or is currently undertaking the course.

Bury South Adult Community team specialise in the working age adults group, based in the Bury St Edmunds Area of Suffolk. We focus on Recovery based interventions and strive to work in partnership with those we care for, their families and their networks.

Are you an experienced clinician who is highly motivated with a range of transferrable skills and is enthusiastic about working with adults experiencing mental health difficulties? We want to hear from you! In exchange you will be well supported within a friendly and well established team, with continuing opportunities for you and your ongoing professional development.

We are looking for people to join us to continue to build a successful service of Bury South IDT. We aim to continuously improve the service delivery and outcomes as a part of NSFT.

• Practice as a non-medical prescriber (independent/supplementary prescribing) in accordance with the Trust’s non-medical prescribing policy and protocols.
• Prescribe as an independent/supplementary prescriber within ones scope of competency and in accordance with Trust and national policies.
• Following national training and a period of actively prescribing as a supplementary prescriber, to work as an independent non-medical prescriber within the designated areas of clinical practice.
• Be responsible and accountable for the assessment of the patient with diagnosed and undiagnosed conditions and for decisions about the clinical management required including prescribing .
• Be accountable for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on caseload.
• Ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.
• Responsible for maintaining the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team.
  
  

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Shukla Job title: Adult Community Services Lead Email address: [email protected]