Urgent Care Practitioner - CRHTT

NHS; Chichester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is looking for a Registered Nurse to join their Crisis Home Treatment Team in Chichester. The role involves supporting individuals in crisis and working with a dynamic multi-disciplinary team. Candidates must possess a valid nursing registration, have experience in acute care, and exhibit the ability to work autonomously. This position offers a supportive environment that promotes flexible working, ensuring a balance between professional and personal life.

Benefits

£2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive

Access to training opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current registration.
• Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group.
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Support people experiencing a crisis or relapse in mental illness.
• Liaise with mental health services and acute inpatient units.
• Attend and contribute to multi agency professionals' meetings.

Skills

Experience of working in acute care

Ability to work autonomously

Knowledge of MHA (1983/2007)

Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (2005)

Understanding of clinical governance

Education

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

Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent

Evidence of continuous professional development

Job description

If you enjoy the complexity, challenge and fast pace of working in acute mental health this role is for you. As a member of this multi-disciplinary Crisis Home Treatment Team you will be supporting people experiencing a crisis in addition to those who may be experiencing a relapse in their diagnosed mental illness.

We support patients, family members and carers and remain committed to the recovery model and a holistic way of working in their homes, offering a variety of therapeutic interventions and support to aid recovery.

In the multi-disciplinary team, you would be working with the Team Leader, Discharge Lead and Clinical Nurse Specialist, Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologists, Urgent Care Practitioners, Senior Support Workers and Peer Support Workers.

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

Main duties of the job

The role of this team is varied and plays a central role within the urgent care pathway. You will be liaising with other mental health services and agencies, in addition to acute inpatient units being responsible for early discharge assessments.This role will involve attending and contributing to multi agency professionals\' meetings. It is preferable to have some experience of working in acute care (inpatient setting/crisis team/mental health liaison team) and the ability to work autonomously is essential. In this post you will be working flexible hours to enable the team to provide a 7-day service.

Chichester and Bognor CRHTT cover a large geographical area (Arundel, Bognor Regis, Wittering\'s, Selsey, Southbourne, Midhurst, Pulborough, Petworth). Therefore, having access to your own transport is essential or you must be able to demonstrate your ability to travel across the patch in an efficient and timely manner. Please contact the team leader if you wish to discuss this further.

This is a seven day per week service from 7.30 to 21.30, which may necessitate some shift work and unsocial hours with enhancements.

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.

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.

Job responsibilities

Registered Nurse with current registration [RMN /LD]

Registered Social Worker

Registered Occupational Therapist

Knowledge/Experience

Knowledge of MHA (1983/2007).

Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (2005), to include practical knowledge of FACE documentation, DOLS and Best Interest decisions

Child and Adult safe guarding procedures

Evidence of organising and prioritising their workload.

Demonstrate ability to enhance care through evidence-based knowledge

Demonstrate professional development relevant to the specific care group

If you want like to talk to us about the bank post or visit us at Chapel Street Clinic in Chichester, West Sussex please do contact us:

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 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
• Understanding of clinical governance
• 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.