Specialist Practitioner

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Willerby; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS Hull, East and North Yorkshire Trust invites applications for a Band 6 Specialist Nurse to join the Mental Health Triage and Assessment Team, delivering routine triage and initial assessments for adults aged 18 to 64 with identified or suspected mental health needs.

You will work closely with GPs, secondary, primary and voluntary care providers, families and carers, leading on innovation and robust care pathways to enhance patient and carer experience.

Qualifications

• Mental Health nursing registration is required.
• Experience in the Mental Health specialism is expected.
• Willingness to lead on innovation and develop robust care pathways.

Responsibilities

• Triage, assess and signpost patients based on clinical need after intervention.
• Support clinical leads with supervisory leadership to junior staff.
• Jointly plan and deliver the Mental Health Triage and Assessment Team's day-to-day work.
• Assist in implementing policy, protocols, service development and change within own area.
• Maintain specialist clinical skills and provide advice on service development and patient care.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of a band 6 Specialist Nurse to join our Mental Health Triage and Assessment Team.

The Mental Health Triage and Assessment team (MHTAT) provides routine triage and initial mental health assessments to individuals between the ages of 18 and 64 years (inclusive), with an identified or suspected mental health need from Hull and East Riding.

Our work is diverse, fast paced and clinically rich.

We work closely with other professionals including General Practitioners, Secondary, Primary and voluntary care providers and collaboratively with families and carers.

We are seeking a professional with a Mental Health nursing registration with experience of working within the specialism of Mental Health and we are looking for professionals who are keen to lead on innovation, developing robust care pathways and enhance the patient and carer experience.

Main duties of the job

• o To triage, assess and signpost patients based on clinical need following clinical intervention.
• o To support the team/clinical leads in providing clinical and supervisory leadership to junior members of the workforce.
• o To be jointly responsible with other senior colleagues for the day-to-day planning and delivery of the Mental Health Triage and Assessment Team.
• o To support the team leads and other colleagues with the implementation of policy, protocol, service/practice development and change within own area of responsibility
• o To continue to demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support/advice re service development and the delivery of care, in partnership with service users, carers, staff, managers and other agencies.

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.