Band 6 Triage practitioner - Full-time, permanent position
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A NEW CHALLENGE? ARE YOU AN EXPERIENCED MENTAL HEALTH NURSE, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST OR SOCIAL WORKER LOOKING FOR A NEW OPPORTUNITY AND THE NEXT STEP IN YOUR CAREER?
We have a Band 6 vacancy as a Triage practitioner for Wealden and Lewes Neighbourhood Mental Health teams. W e 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.
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.
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
- Flexible working patterns
- 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)
2. To undertake initial assessments of individuals and their families
3. To complete risk assessments and develop care plans
4. To contribute to risk management and safety planning
5. 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
