Job summary
Multiple Admissions Pathway Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner Post
Secondment or Fixed term post opportunity for someone wanting to develop in open dialogue and systemic practice.
Qualified Nurse/OT/Social Worker
The East Sussex Directorate are developing a Multiple Admissions Pathway for Eastbourne, Wealden and Lewes areas. We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist & Social Worker) who has a keen interest in working with those with complex mental health difficulties and supporting reduce admissions to hospital and support recovery. We are looking for someone who is interested in developing skills in working using an open dialogue approach where we are responsive to clients needs and bring a network of care around a person to support recovery.
The usual hours of work are Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.
Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes.
You will be joining a warm, friendly team who are dedicated to transforming care and supporting best practice for service users and their families. The team has reflective practice weekly and high level of training and support for staff.
The role will be working closely with the three Neighbourhood mental health teams in East Sussex and enhancing the care delivered to those in crisis with complex needs and a history of multiple admissions.
Main duties of the job
- To maintain patient safety, in collaboration with patients, carers and other team members
- Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of patient harm, abuse or neglect and taking all reasonable steps to protect the patient.
- Provides clinical advice on complex issues to other members of the clinical team and staff from other disciplines.
- Undertakes urgent and priority assessments withrisk assessments.
- Responsible for decision making and coordination in a crisis situation.
- Take responsibility for the management of complex people who present to the team when their Care Coordinator / Lead Professional is absent from work and the person requires an urgent response.
- Working to support the team where Intensive Home-Based Treatment is required.
- To liaise with other services eg: Police; A & E as required.
- Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards and offering a consistent approach to people open within the team
- Maintain an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient conditions.
- Support members of the team with other specialist assessments, as required
- To maintain professional standards of care at all time
- Deliver psychologically informed interventions
- Attend and work towards facilitating open dialogue informed network meetings
About us
The NHS is changing and with more emphasis on community-based care there's never been a better time to join us. Over the next three years, community mental health services are going to be undergoing a real transformation and you could be part of these exciting developments. Our community mental health teams will become part of a much more integrated network of services and our mental health clinicians will be central in driving the changes, in close partnership with our primary and third sector colleagues.
We recognise that working in mental health can be stressful so we prioritise staff welfare, providing regular supervision, reflective practice, mentoring, and any other support that our clinicians need to ensure their wellbeing.
We look forward to hearing from you. Please contact Sally McGuire, Principal Psychologist, Lead for MAP for Wealden and Lewes, if you want to know more about the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Excellent communication skills are needed in the role in regard to communicating with all stakeholders including service users, carers, third sector providers, internal and external agencies and services.
Ideally, we would prefer someone who has experience of supporting service users with mental health problems (and we positively encourage applicants with lived experience). An inclusive and positive attitude is essential. If your current role includes duty work, that will be an advantage in your application. We always provide a robust induction and the wellbeing of our team is always thought about. Supervision, appraisal and training are all highly valued and prioritized.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Excellent communication skills are needed in the role in regard to communicating with all stakeholders including service users, carers, third sector providers, internal and external agencies and services.
Ideally, we would prefer someone who has experience of supporting service users with mental health problems (and we positively encourage applicants with lived experience). An inclusive and positive attitude is essential. If your current role includes duty work, that will be an advantage in your application. We always provide a robust induction and the wellbeing of our team is always thought about. Supervision, appraisal and training are all highly valued and prioritized.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse / health professional with current registration appropriate to the job role
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB / professional equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group (mental health or neurodevelopmental)
- 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 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse / health professional with current registration appropriate to the job role
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB / professional equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group (mental health or neurodevelopmental)
- 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 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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
