Urgent Care Practitioner – Crisis Resolution Home Treatment TeamNHS

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge and want to offer the best care in times of Crisis?

Do you want to help shape the future of the CRHT?

We're looking for like-minded people to join us and help provide top quality care to those who need it.

We have an opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse (RMN) or Occupational Therapists (OT) to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) at Woodlands Centre for Acute Care, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.

The CRHT team is a part of acute care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support clients in a mental health crisis. It offers clients care and support in their own homes as an alternative to hospital admission.

CRHT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission while remaining at home including home visits from our experienced team, with support from doctors and psychology. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to community-based service.

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

As an Urgent Care Practitioner in our team you will work in partnership with service users with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.

You will be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of top-quality care to service users. This will include working alongside service users, carers, families and partner agencies such as voluntary sector agencies, schools and colleges.

As well as providing specialist nursing advice and carry out nursing procedures, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments in order to progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

You may also be involved in providing clinical supervision to staff and students. This may include acting as shift co-ordinator as needed to lead the team on shift, as well as allocating and delegating tasks to colleagues. You will be expected to liaise with other services and external agencies to triage referrals to the service and gatekeep inpatient admissions.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership skills if you are looking for career progression in the future.

There are always opportunities for extra bank work and further experience throughout the Urgent Care Hub within our other services, and we welcome the opportunity to support your career if you are looking to gain added experience from another service area.

Job description

In order to be a successful Community Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will have:

• Professional Registration
• Experience of working in the relevant care group
• Experience of working with people with complex needs
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

It would also be advantageous if you have:

• Experience of supervising staff

The service operates 7 days a week and there will be an expectation to work weekends and shifts, which would involve early and late shifts.

Please note the ability to travel is essential for this role as regular home visits to service users and occasional visits to other trust sites is required.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

About us

We are committed to career development and future aspirations and career goals are discussed openly and supported.

Working in Sussex:

• Travel easily between coast and countryside and enjoy the natural beauty the county has to offer. With a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns, there's always somewhere new to visit
• Embrace the city life and visit Brighton, or even travel to London in under 90 minutes
• As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

Your benefits:

• Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Free parking on-site
• Access to a host of discount schemes
• Excellent NHS Pension
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)

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, 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.