Older Adults Urgent Care Practitioner - Intensive Support

Integrated Care System; Haywards Heath; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Trust in Sussex is recruiting a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse to join their Specialist Older Adults' Mental Health Service. This rewarding role demands compassion and a commitment to providing high-quality care for older patients in a community setting, alongside a supportive team environment. The position comes with a relocation incentive and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in patients' lives.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current registration.
• Experience supervising staff and providing clinical interventions.
• Significant post-qualification experience in relevant care group.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and care to a caseload of older individuals.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Travel across Mid Sussex for patient care.

Skills

Enthusiasm

Flexibility

Resourcefulness

Education

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult]

Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent

Evidence of continuous professional development

Job description

We are recruiting a band 6 mental health nurse for the Specialist Older Adults' Mental Health Service (SOAMHS), based at Horsham Mental Health Team, Linwood Community Mental Health Centre,Haywards Heath. The Specialist Older Adults Mental Health Service is integrated between health and social care, and works with older people with both functional and complex organic conditions who need secondary service support. Experience of working with this client group in a community setting is advantageous but not essential, as we would offer a robust induction and supervision package for the right candidate.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Helloor Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

The ability to travel is essential for this role and must be willing to travel across Mid Sussex and including Horsham and Crawley and surrounding areas as required.

Main duties of the job

We will be looking for someone with a passion for working with older people. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide specialist assessment, treatment and care to a caseload of people with a range of mental health needs. You must be enthusiastic, self-motivated, flexible and resourceful and be able to forge close links with clients and carers. We also work closely with partner healthcare organisations and the voluntary sector.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within a service which prides itself on its commitment and provision of high-quality care. This will be a challenging and very busy role, but one which will be very rewarding.

The service operates 7 days a week including bank holidays.

About us

The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex.

Living & Working in West Sussex:

Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstep

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Key staff survey results include:

70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work

79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team

77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Job responsibilities

The role of Urgent Care Practitioner is to work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.

Please see the attached Job Description document for full details of the role and responsibilities.

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
• 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.