Clinical Validation Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has become available for Mental Health Nurses to join our well established Clinical Validation team.

The post holder will be responsible for the safe clinical triage of 999 mental health calls within the clinical queue utilising NHSP pathways triage tool/ PaCCs.The provision of advice and support to meet the identified needs of the patient and where required the onward referral to other services utilising the DoS or electronic transfer to services.

Working as a member of the Clinical Validation Team within the Integrated Urgent Care Team working collaboratively with colleagues across the service to ensure an excellent level of service is provided to patients. Providing support and specialist advice for both call assessors and operational crews.

Applicants must be NMC Registered Mental Health Nurses with a minimum of 2 years post registration & autonomous clinical practice within an appropriate mental health setting.

Full & Part time positions are available, however, you must be able to work full rotating shift patterns for this post (all days of the week, days, nights, evenings, weekends / RAL). Minimum number of hours for part time is 22.5 hours per week

Training is completed on a full time basis for 4 weeks followed by mentoring shifts therefore you must be able to commit to this if applying for a part time post

Job responsibilities

If this position involves a regulated activity it will require an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check. The disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children, adults or both

Where a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is required for the post, all applicants are required to cover the cost of the check. The cost of £55.76 for an enhanced check is payable to our online provider at the time that the DBS application is submitted. Upon receipt of your DBS you will then be required to sign up to the DBS online update service.

We do endeavour to respond to all candidates on an individual basis. Therefore we do ask for your co-operation and patience whilst the short listing process takes place. After the closing date please ensure you check your emails (including junk mail) regularly as contact is usually made via this method.

We are proud to offer flexible working options to support our colleagues to have a greater choice in when, where and how they work. During your interview we will explore this with you and discuss your individual needs and how this could be facilitated for this role to benefit patient experience, service delivery and the work-life balance of colleagues.