An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Hastings and Rother Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (Specialist Adults) Triage, for a registered Mental Health Nurse with experience of working in a community mental health setting. The Specialist Adults Service (previously known as the Assessment and Treatment Service) is a team supporting adults with complex mental health needs. Your role will be to triage, assess and make clinical decisions to support individuals referred to our service in meeting their mental health support needs within our integrated mental health system. Getting these decisions right will be vital to ensure that support is offered in a safe and timely manner within the most appropriate treatment pathways. You will need to have finely honed clinical assessment skills, be decisive and a highly skilled communicator. The ability to work autonomously and under pressure will be a requirement. You may occasionally support the wider service beyond triage, usually Duty. You will be supported by a Triage Lead as well as a team of multidisciplinary colleagues daily and have access to decision making spaces within the team where further discussions are required. You will be joining a warm, friendly, highly supportive team of dedicated colleagues who work together to offer the best possible service to the people we support. In return, we offer access to training opportunities to assist you in realising your potential and achieving a greater degree of job satisfaction.
Main duties of the job
- Oversight on Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT) referrals into triage.
- Being the point of contact for our NMHT, referrals into the service and providing a point of contact for individuals initially referred into the service and their families and carers.
- Gathering information and liaising with relevant professionals and agencies.
- Making appropriate treatment and support decisions using the different pathway options within the NMHT.
- Risk screening referrals over the phone.
- Providing a point of contact for individuals initially referred into the service to discuss their presenting concerns, risk and care pathway.
- Completion of intake assessments.
- Supporting and engaging with carers and families to provide information relevant to the referral as part of the team’s approach to triangle of care.
- Attend team meetings weekly to discuss complex and risky referrals within an MDT setting.
- Supervision of junior staff and mentorship of students.
- Covering urgent registered work within the service.
- Working into other areas of the service when required.
This post offers the Trust’s £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).
About us
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do. If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding Specialist Adults Mental Health Team in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you. Hastings is a vibrant seaside town, offering affordable coastal living along with independent shopping and a variety of cafes, bars and restaurants and a very creative music and artistic scene.
Benefits
- Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- Flexible working patterns
- Reimbursed parking
- Child care vouchers
- Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
- A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
- Generous holiday entitlement (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays
- NHS Pension contributions
Flexible working
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health/LD/Adult), appropriate to the job role
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge / Experience
- Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
- Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
- Experience of supervising staff
- Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
- Experience of working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
- Experience of working within the CPA process
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Previous experience of working in the community
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Hastings And Rother Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, Cavendish House
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