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A leading healthcare provider in Westminster is seeking a Registered Mental Health Nurse to provide community-based support to service users in crisis. You will work in a multi-professional team, ensuring high-quality care and treatment. The role involves ongoing assessments, risk management, and advocating for service users' needs. A commitment to diversity and inclusion is part of the work culture.
The post holder will provide community/home environment-based support to service users with mental health needs who are in crisis, promoting their recovery. The role includes supporting the carers of service users receiving home treatment. The post involves working with clients with a wide range of mental health problems in a culturally diverse borough. The postholder will work within a multi-professional team to implement, evaluate, and deliver high-quality care and treatment to service users and carers.
The postholder must be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist with an established clinical background, having completed necessary academic and clinical supervision to meet competency requirements for a Home Treatment Team Practitioner. The post may require working across different Trust sites based on service needs.
The Trust's Home Treatment Teams provide 24/7 crisis assessment and intensive home treatment to prevent or facilitate earlier discharge from inpatient care. The post holder will provide care within their professional boundaries, from initial history taking, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, to evaluation of care.
The Trust promotes diversity, equality, and inclusion, being a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with disabilities. Our values emphasize compassion, respect, and dignity, and we are committed to tackling inequality and promoting equality of opportunity.
Applications must be made online, and applicants should read the Job Description and Personal Specification carefully. The closing date is a guide and may close early if sufficient applications are received. Unsuccessful applicants will not be contacted within three weeks of the closing date. Priority may be given to NHS employees at risk. Successful applicants authorize the Trust to confirm NHS service via IAT. We are a smoke-free Trust. SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, supporting LGBT rights.