Specialist Practitioner Connection

Dorset HealthCare; Poole; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Recruitment premium

Retention premium

Job summary

Dorset HealthCare is seeking suitably registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers or Occupational Therapists for our 24/7 Connection crisis service based at St Ann's Hospital. The role involves direct assessments, crisis coordination and advising other agencies.

We offer professional development, flexible working and a recruitment premium plus a retention premium for ongoing service. Shifts include weekends, bank holidays and nights, with the opportunity for full or part-time hours.

Qualifications

• Must be professionally registered in your field
• Experience in crisis care or urgent mental health settings preferred
• Willingness to work shifts including weekends and nights

Responsibilities

• Conduct direct clinical assessments for individuals in crisis
• Provide clinical advice and support to patients and carers
• Supervise mental health support workers and coordinate urgent responses
• Liaise with internal teams and external services and emergency responders
• Deliver brief interventions and signpost to relevant services

Skills

Mental health nursing

Social work

Occupational therapy

Job description

We are looking for experienced professionally registered, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers or Occupational Therapists with a genuine passion for supporting those in mental health crisis, to complete the recruitment to our Connection team. We value all our team and offer a financial recruitment and retention premium on this post.

Connection is moving forward and this is an exciting time to join us for the next stages of our service development; increasing face to face community assessment work, and working collaboratively with partner agencies to ensure people in mental health crisis receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Based at St Ann's Hospital, with a sea view from the office, Connection is Dorset's 24/7 open access mental health crisis service. Access Mental Health Dorset

This is a diverse role with new challenges each day: Direct clinical assessments, advice and support, supervise our fantastic mental health support workers, give clinical advice to other agencies and emergency services, co-ordinate urgent and emergency responses, and liaise with a range of internal and external services.

We are committed to professional development and support, offering internal and external training/education programmes and supervision.

Full and part time hours available. This is a 24/7 service with shift patterns including weekends, bank holidays and nights. All reasonable flexible working requests will be considered.

This role includes a £3,000 Recruitment Premium lump sum on commencement of employment and thereafter a further £1,500 Retention Premium per annum (pro-rata), paid in equal monthly instalments provided you remain in post and subject to review by the Trust.

Telephone and face to face mental health assessments, brief clinical interventions and support, signposting and referrals.

Validating, de-escalating crisis and coaching people in distress tolerance and emotional regulation strategies. Using a range of brief interventions, you will empower patients, carers and families to manage distress and crisis effectively.

As well as telephone based work the role also include opportunity to complete urgent face to face assessments across Dorset when indicated.

Providing clinical information, advice and support to other professionals and emergency services. Supporting police and ambulance service in accessing most appropriate support for those presenting in mental health crisis.

The team is part of the Trust Access Mental Health services and works closely with a range of other teams and services, including Home Treatment teams, Liaison Psychiatry and the Retreats. Overnight, Connection covers the Home Treatment Team caseload and manages any referrals.

Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.

As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact [e-mail]

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