Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Mental Health Nurse to join our Crisis Assessment and Intensive Support Team (CAIST) within the Suffolk Crisis Service. This is a dynamic and rewarding role supporting children and young people in acute mental health distress.

You will be responsible for assessing referrals, delivering direct care, and managing a caseload in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team. The role involves work in a fast-paced environment where your clinical expertise and decision-making will have a direct impact on service users and their families.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake direct assessments and deliver care plans for children and young people in crisis.

• Ensure the appropriateness of referrals and continuity of care across services.

• Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners including CAMHS, social care, and education.

• Provide supervision and support to junior staff and students.

• Maintain accurate mental health clustering and documentation across all stages of care.

• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be working within a community CAMHS Crisis team, ensuring the appropriateness of referrals, undertaking direct assessment and planning and delivering direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi- disciplinary and multi-agency environment.

Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs.

Support and advising to other health care professionals. To support aspects of service development.

Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant UEA students.

To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.

To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.

To ensure the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team