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.
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 liaison 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).
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.
As a practitioner in our team we can offer you:
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
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Essential Qualifications
Registered Practitioner with current registration (Mental Health Nurse)
Evidence of continuous professional development
Essential Knowledge
Experience of working alongside people with complex mental health needs in the designated care group.
Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of mental health problems
Experience of working consultatively with other 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
Knowledge of MHA (1983/2007).
Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (2005), to include practical knowledge of FACE documentation, DOLS and Best Interest decisions.
Child and Adult safeguarding procedures.
Change management and organising and prioritising their workload.
Demonstrate ability to enhance care through evidence-based knowledge.
Demonstrate professional development relevant to the specific care group.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications
Registered Practitioner with current registration (Mental Health Nurse)
Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience/Knowledge
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
Previous experience of working in the community.
