Specialist Practitioner - Crisis Intervention Team Older People

Integrated Care System; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a band 6 Specialist Practitioner for the Crisis Intervention Team for Older People. The successful candidate will support adults over 65 in Hull and East Riding with mental health issues. This role provides opportunities for leadership and development of innovative care pathways for older adults, requiring expertise in mental health nursing and strong interpersonal skills. Join us in making a difference in the community.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Full understanding of relevant policy and legislation.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students.
• Evidence of continuing professional development at a specialist level.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in the development of staff.
• Provide nursing interventions across Hull and East Riding.
• Triage and assess patients who require urgent response.

Skills

Effective inter-personal skills

Ability to lead and motivate staff

Experience in supervising and mentoring

Education

Professional registration in Mental Health Nursing

Leadership training

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of a band 6 Specialist Practitioner to the Crisis Intervention Team for Older People (CITOP) due to the expansion of the team's current role. The CITOP team supports adults predominately aged over 65 in the Hull and East Riding area with both functional and organic illness.

Moving forward the CITOP team will be extending their operating hours to provide 24-hour Crisis intervention and Home treatment for Older adults across Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire. CITOP will be provide four Community Crisis Beds for older adults as an alternative to inpatient care and The Acute Community Service will be extended to provide a seven-day service.

Due to the development of the CITOP service we are looking for professionals who are keen to lead on innovation, developing robust care pathways and enhance the patient and carer experience.

We are seeking individuals who are motivated, enthusiastic and have experience of working with Older Adults who have complex needs and enduring mental illness. This role requires good organisational skills, being able to demonstrate an ability to prioritise and delegate work effectively, and an interest or specialism in urgent and emergency mental health care, providing expert clinical advice and support and provide leadership and guidance on shift.

Main duties of the job

The applicant will be expected to have specialist nursing knowledge of working with older people with organic and functional mental health issues.

You will have the opportunity to develop leadership skills, providing supervision to healthcare staff. You will lead and participate in the development of staff through appraisal and clinical supervision.

You will provide nursing interventions across Hull and East Riding, to support the wider community mental health services as required by patient need and demand. You will provide Home Treatment as an alternative to hospital admission or to facilitate a timely discharge from inpatient settings. You will be required to triage and assess patients who require a urgent or crisis response. These assessments will be completed in a range of community setting. You will be required to collect/collate information and attend formulations for identified patients. You will also be required to complete 'gate keeping assessments' and liaise with the bed management team around admissions. You will be required to work in collaboration with other teams and agencies to ensure the best care for the team's patients.

The applicant will be expected to have knowledge in mental health conditions, including Dementia and experience in this area would be an advantage, additional training and support will be given.

We are a 24/7 service therefore patterns of duties include days, evenings, weekend's, nights and bank holidays.

About us

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.

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Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
• Professional registration in Mental health Nursing, Social Work (with Mental Health experience) or Learning Disabilities Nursing.
• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility
• Leadership training/qualification/experience

Experience

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
• Evidence of development of specialist practice nursing skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice

Skills and Competencies

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others

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.

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