Outreach Nurse Forensic Youth Team - Amsterdam East

Do you dare to take on the challenge with our young people as an outreach nurse / NP (Nurse Practitioner) at the forensic youth team of Inforsa in Amsterdam East?

In this role, you will work together with your colleagues on multidisciplinary treatment and guidance. You support clients in getting both practical matters and personal challenges in order. In doing so, you increase their self-reliance and reduce the risk of relapse.

We would love to talk to you!

What are you going to do?
As an outreach nurse / NP, you are broadly deployable. You work under the direction of the lead practitioner and in close collaboration with your multidisciplinary team (including a psychiatrist, GZ-psychologist, master psychologists, nurse, nurse practitioner, system therapist, and social workers) via an intensive outreach working method according to the FACT model.

You have your own caseload and are responsible for the medical and psychiatric care of clients, in conjunction with all other areas of life. You do this, among other things, by conducting somatic screening lists, medication administration, crisis management, and supportive treatment contacts. You prepare risk assessments and work on relapse prevention, signaling, and treatment plans. Additionally, you actively participate in multidisciplinary consultation, intervision, and professional development.

With us, you work with youth and young adults (15-25 years old) who have problems in various areas of life and who exhibit boundary-crossing behavior. This may include (emerging) personality issues, psychiatric problems, addiction issues, trauma, attachment issues, and/or intellectual disabilities.

In this, you work together with urban chain approaches and always seek connection, thinking outside the box. You do not give up, you think in possibilities, and you know how to motivate clients for treatment, increase their self-reliance, and reduce the risk of recidivism.

Specifically, your activities consist of:

• attending the FACT board at the start of the day with the multidisciplinary teams;
• coordinating treatment as a primary practitioner, in close cooperation with the lead practitioner and secondary practitioner.
• performing nursing technical procedures (including providing oral medication, administering depot injections, completing somatic screening lists)
• Treating your own caseload, including risk assessment and drafting relapse prevention, signaling, and treatment plans;
• participating in multidisciplinary consultation, intervision, professional development, and care coordination meetings with chain partners;
• maintaining contact with next of kin;
• Outreach working and acting adequately in crisis situations (never alone, always together with colleagues).

We will soon start the implementation of GIT-PD. All practitioners, including you, will be trained in this.

What do you bring?
You are successful if you can keep a cool head in the most stressful situations, allowing you to act convincingly and decisively. You have an entrepreneurial spirit, focused on quality of care and innovation. You are communicatively skilled and proactively and easily establish contact with colleagues, chain and network partners, as well as the target group and their loved ones. Because you can switch well between different interests and turn resistance into cooperation, you succeed in de-escalating tense situations. Your strength in collaborating, your humor, and your ability to maintain perspective help you with this.

Our forensic and complex target group requires you to present yourself as vulnerable and teachable. You speak up when you get stuck yourself, but also when you notice this in a colleague. You have knowledge of psychiatry and an affinity with the forensic youth target group. Your familiarity with our (sub)regional social map helps you to quickly make this workplace your own. In addition to working in a team, you can also work well independently and in a structured manner and maintain your documentation.

Additionally:

• You have graduated in HBO-nursing or are an NP
• You are BIG-registered
• A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is required for this position

Do you recognize yourself in this and do you want to offer optimal forensic care to our clients? Then we would very much like to receive your application if you possess:

Working at Inforsa
Inforsa is one of the eleven specialisms of Arkin. Together, we are the expert in the field of psychiatry and addiction care and we dedicate ourselves daily to the mental resilience of our clients. The Forensic Ambulatory Care (FAZ) of Inforsa works in Amsterdam and Central Netherlands with outreach teams and outpatient clinics. In Amsterdam, the FAZ consists of two Forensic FACT teams, a Forensic Outpatient Clinic, and two Forensic Youth Teams (FJT). We treat clients referred by the probation service with a forensic title as well as clients without a title but with a forensic profile.

Our goal: to reduce the risk of repeated offending by addressing psychiatric and/or addiction issues, improving social circumstances, and increasing self-reliance. The FAZ is a highly sought-after care provider and works intensively with municipal agencies, (youth) probation, other GGZ providers, and the Custodial Institutions Agency (DJI). The Forensic Youth Team (FJT) works from two locations in Amsterdam (West and East). Your base will be East (Wisselwerking). Our multidisciplinary team consists of, among others, a psychiatrist, educationalist, (GZ-/clinical) psychologist, social worker, nurses, experience expert, and job coach.

What makes our FJT unique:

• Working in the youth chain with an assertive, creative, and enthusiastic approach
• High-intensity outreach care for young people with a forensic title or similar issues
• Close cooperation with the forensic chain and other network partners
• Treatment of complex issues in multiple areas of life: socio-economic, systemic, and psychiatric
• Intensive contact with family, school, housing facilities, youth protection, probation, and mentors.