Triage Lead-Senior Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Nurse Practitioner (SNP) to be part of our Hastings and Rother Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (NMHT). You will be part of the clinical leadership team within the team and take a lead with our Triage Team, ensuring the safe delivery and management of referrals into NMHT.

We are looking for a practitioner that works well independently, within a multidisciplinary team and can build meaningful working relationships with our partners and aligned services within our NMHTs.  The ability to build trusting relationships, work collaboratively with, and have a sound working knowledge of stakeholders, including service users, families and carers, private providers and local mental health care teams will be essential.

You will be joining a committed and dynamic team and will be fully supported and empowered to creatively develop many new ways of working towards building safe and responsive quality mental health services fit for the future. High personal resilience and a can-do attitude are essential. We would expect you to lead by example and be able to demonstrate our Trust values and behaviours.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will need to have substantial clinical experience within a community mental health setting, demonstrate leadership acumen, and be able to work collaboratively across a range of partners. You will have a strong sense of teamwork, be able to demonstrate how you have worked productively within a team and describe the values that matter to you. You will need to have a lot of initiative, creativity, flexibility, a good sense of humour, and to know how to engage with people to bring the best out of them.  The role entails ensuring referrals into the NMHT are triaged and managed within the agreed time scales and appropriate to clinical need. You will need to possess excellent assessment skills, as well as having working knowledge of mental health services and 3rd sector organisations. As this post is at the front end of our delivery service, you will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to build trusting relationships with families, carers, local partners and within the NMHT. The ability to work flexibly in multidisciplinary and multiprofessional teams and in a range of settings is essential. The post holder will, in conjunction with other leads in the team, provide strong clinical leadership and expertise to the multidisciplinary team and NMHT, ensuring that high standards are maintained. They will work closely with the medical team to ensure effective patient flow and discharge management is maintained.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person Specification Qualifications Essential •    Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role •    Degree/diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to masters level equivalent relevant to the care group •    Evidence of post registration training in relevant service area •    Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent

Knowledge/Experience Essential

• Extensive post qualifying experience working in community mental health settings. •    Experience of providing professional support /supervision and motivation to staff. •    Experience of managing staff.  •    Experience overseeing a caseload of patients with complex mental health needs. •    Comprehensive knowledge of interventions specific to service area. •    Have experience on leading the management of care for patients with challenging and complex presentations.

Main Responsibilities

Possess excellent risk management skills and be confident in supporting others to manage risk. Be able to demonstrate personal resilience and skills in supporting colleagues to manage challenging situations. Have confidence and drive to support colleagues in managing complex changes in order to meet service expectations and needs. Provide line management and supervision to junior colleagues. The post holder will provide specialist assessments and nursing interventions to patients within the care group. Participate in review of clinical policies and guidelines.  Support and implement changes to practice; liaise with other organisations and professionals to promote communication and good practice. Be able to undertake audit activity and supervision to other staff in the service area.