Urgent Care Practitioner – Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

Job overview

We have an opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse (RMN), to join to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) at MillView Hospital, covering Brighton and Hove.

This post is a secondment, that is part time, working 30 hours a week over 10 months. However, there is some scope for this to be flexible and could be created as a full time post but for less months.

The CRHT team is a part of urgent 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.

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. You will be providing specialist clinical advice, carrying out clinical procedures, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments in order to progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

You will also be involved in providing clinical supervision to junior staff and students. This will 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS

In order to be a successful Urgent Care 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.

Our shift times are as follows:

Early: 08:30-16:30 Late: 14:00-22:00 Long Day: 08:30-22:00

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.