Crisis Mental Health Nurse Specialist

3 weeks ago

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse looking for a new challenge in crisis and urgent care services? Our Home Treatment Team in Mendip is seeking a skilled Registered Mental Health nurse to join our dynamic, multi-disciplinary team.

You will play a key role in ensuring urgent community assessments of clients presenting in an acute mental health crisis, providing robust assessment skills, brief interventions, and compassionate care to clients and their families and carers.

This role will also enable you to work in our First Response Service in Somerset, providing telephone support and triage to individuals presenting in mental health crisis. You will be a key member of a skilled Multi Disciplinary Team offering a range of psychological, medical, and social interventions to support recovery.

Key duties include working with a clinical caseload, their families, and gatekeeping admissions to, and facilitating early discharge from mental health inpatient settings. You will work collaboratively with colleagues in the team and across the community mental health service.

The ideal candidate will be able to carry out evidence-based interventions, possess exceptional interpersonal skills, and have excellent organisational skills. You will also be able to lead a team, work effectively as part of a team, and inspire hope, support recovery, and make a difference.

About us

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits, including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market-leading annual leave allowance, career progression, and regular conversations. The benefits of working in Somerset include its idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty, and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks while being close to bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter, and only two hours away from London.

The post holder will also work in our triage hub, responsible for accepting and triaging urgent referrals from a variety of sources, for those experiencing a mental health crisis.

We are looking for someone who is professional in how they communicate, works with care and compassion, and is competent, committed, trustworthy, and dependable in undertaking allocated tasks and responsibilities.

Main duties of the job

We recognise that recovery from acute mental illness is best met within a person's own home, so we strive to provide safe, intensive mental health treatment and intervention at home, as an alternative to admission to psychiatric hospital.

As well as working with a clinical caseload and their families, the home treatment team gatekeep admissions to, and facilitate early discharge from mental health inpatient settings. This role will involve flexible working across a 24-hour shift rota (days and night shifts) in a 7-day a week service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RMN
  • Current registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council
  • Evidence of Post qualifying professional development in an acute setting

Experience

Essential

  • Significant post registration experience in multi-disciplinary community mental health services
  • Experience of managing risk of clients in crisis
  • Experience of assessment, care-planning, development, and evaluation in conjunction with clients and carers

Desirable

  • Evidence of post qualifying professional development in an acute setting
  • Good knowledge of resources and working practices across health and social care
  • Ability to be innovative in practice

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Able to carry out evidence-based interventions
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively and empathically with patients, carers, and relatives about complex and sensitive issues
  • Excellent organisational skills, ability to manage own time and plan timed activities for staff and patients
  • Ability to recognise and manage challenging situations in a calm and professional manner
  • Ability to lead a team and work effectively as part of a team
  • Experience of carrying out supervision to junior staff, coordinating the care of clients, and delegating tasks
  • Ability to inspire hope, support recovery, and make a difference
  • Act in a way that supports equality and diversity
  • The ability to attend the necessary training with regard to personal safety
  • Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative
  • Flexibility and commitment to high standards of service for adults with mental health difficulties
  • Ability to speak to distressed patients and their relatives in person and on the telephone
  • Required to spend a considerable period of a working day in front of a VDU with expected high standards of written communication skills
  • Ability to travel round Trust area to fulfil the requirements of the role

Desirable

  • Ability to work in partnership with other agencies
  • Willingness to lead groups

About us

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Priory Health Park

Glastonbury Road

Wells

Somerset

BA5 1XL

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