"outcome focused specialist health care and rehabilitation"
Clinical Nurse Specialists
Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist
MHC employs a team of four clinical nurse specialists (CNS) whom are integral members of the multi-disciplinary clinical team. The CNS have a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience in the fields of Learning Disabilities and Mental Health.
The clinical approach is varied and utilises the eclectic and mix of skills the CNS have to support and advise the residential services and systemically the hospitals when additional support is required. The CNS support the individual service streams on Highfield Park; Intensive Support, Autism, Continuing Care. In addition to this, support is given to the wider community facing facilities which the CNS have attributed to their caseload.
The clinical input comes in many guises from individual work with service users through to staff in-service training, external lecturing, assessment, evaluation and intervention work, Root Cause Analysis, mentoring and inter-professional liaison.
The four CNS have differing attributes that complement the wide range of needs service. The use of their clinical competence and judgement aids the ongoing needs of the service users and staff teams across all clinical areas.
The profiling some of these qualities will give a greater clarity to the range and depth of resources available to the service users through the clinical teams MDT process.
