Community Mental Health Practitioner (Adult Triage)
Band 6 Triage practitioner – Full-time, permanent position
We have a Band 6 vacancy as a Triage practitioner for Wealden and Lewes Neighbourhood Mental Health teams. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced practitioner to join our triage team.
The post is based in our Newhaven base. Newhaven is a small harbour town in the beautiful countryside of the South Downs National Park, only a few miles from Eastbourne and Brighton.
If successful, you would join a small, dedicated and dynamic team who manage the referrals coming into the Neighbourhood teams. The role involves the screening, assessment and prioritisation of cases and liaising with our neighbourhood partners in primary care.
Main duties of the job
With the support of our two Triage Senior Nurse Practitioners, this role entails ensuring referrals are triaged and managed within the agreed time scales and appropriate to clinical need. As you will be at the front door of the service, you will need to possess excellent communication skills to enable us to represent the service professionally, maintain positive working relationships with our partner agencies and establish rapport and trust with the people referred.
You will also need well developed mental health and risk assessment skills and a good working knowledge of mental health services.
About us
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
We can offer you:
- Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes, run by our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- Access to a host of 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 (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
- A ‘Golden Hello’ or relocation package for Nurses of up to £2000 (see attached documentation)
Job responsibilities
- To undertake initial assessments of individuals and their families
- To complete risk assessments and develop care plans
- To contribute to risk management and safety planning
- To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
- To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate
Person Specification
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.
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