Urgent Care Mental Health Practitioner

NHS; Chichester; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team at NHS in Chichester seeks a dedicated Band 5-6 Nurse skilled in crisis intervention and teamwork. This role involves providing compassionate assessments and home treatment to individuals in crisis, helping to prevent hospital admissions. The position offers excellent professional support and a £2,000 Golden Hello incentive, marking a unique opportunity to join a committed, dynamic team focused on improving mental health services.

Benefits

27 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays

Flexible working patterns

Child care vouchers

Excellent training and development opportunities

NHS Discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in crisis resolution practice or acute care is essential.
• Should possess registration as a mental health nurse, occupational therapist, or social worker.
• Commitment to continued professional development is expected.

Responsibilities

• Provide intensive short-term crisis intervention and home treatment.
• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary team for effective mental health services.
• Ensure person-centered assessments are delivered compassionately.

Skills

Assessment skills

Risk management

Communication skills

Teamwork

Crisis resolution

Education

Mental health nurse registration

Completion of Mentorship Course

Job description

The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team is a multi-disciplinary team offering intensive short-term crisis intervention and home treatment in Chichester and Bognor Regis. Its aims are to prevent hospital admissions and to facilitate supported discharges from hospital.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 5-6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit someone, who is enthusiastic, with excellent assessment, risk management and communication skills and is committed to working as part of a team and in partnership with service users and carers.

You will need to have some experience of crisis resolution practice / acute care and be willing to work flexible hours to enable the team to provide a 7 day service.

You will receive regular supervision and have the opportunity for personal and professional development as well as contributing to the team's development.

You will be expected to travel across sites in order to cover an urban / rural area.

About us

You will be joining a committed and dynamic multidisciplinary team and will be fully supported and empowered to make a difference to creatively develop many new ways of working, towards building safe and responsive quality mental health services fit for the future.

In return we can offer a supportive working environment and access to training opportunities to assist you to realise your potential and achieve a greater degree of job satisfaction.

As a Trust employee you will enjoy the following:

• Excellent starting salary
• NHS Pension contributions
• 27 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Flexible Working patterns
• Child care vouchers
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• NHS Discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme

Job responsibilities

This is an exciting and dynamic role that offers the opportunity for development and implementation of high-quality services. Previous experience of working in acute services or home treatment teams is desirable, although not essential. We offer excellent staff support through clinical supervision and teamwork.

Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team is integral to our Urgent Care Pathway and ensure people presenting to acute mental health services receive a compassionate, person- centred assessment.

This is a seven day per week service, which may necessitate some working unsocial hours, however, working unsocial hours does bring a salary increase, in line with Agenda for Change guidelines.

If you are looking for a role where you can use the experience you have gathered to make a real and tangible difference to a new and developing service, then this is the job for you!

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mental health nurse, Occupational therapist or social worker 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 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 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.