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Senior Unscheduled Care /Mental Health Assessment Nurse - Mental Health Services
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Senior Unscheduled Care /Mental Health Assessment Nurse - Mental Health Services
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – Senior Unscheduled Care (Mental Health) Nurse
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across clinical and non-clinical roles, delivering acute hospital, primary, community, and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, with many more supported regionally and nationally.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for:
- One Full-Time (36hrs/week)
- *One Part-Time (22.5hrs/week – prorated salary)
Senior Unscheduled Care (Mental Health) Nurse to join the Adult Mental Health Liaison Service (AMHLS). Operating 9am–5pm (Mon–Sun, including public holidays), the team requires yet another mentally alert, resilient, and highly experienced mental health nurse.
About NNHSL
The AMHLS provides specialist assessment, diagnosis, management, and after-care for inpatients whose mental health concerns disrupt acute hospital care. As a key member of a multidisciplinary team, you will:
- Conduct biopsychosocial assessments, including mental health risk assessments
- Provide safe and evidence-based interventions tailored to the acute setting
- Engage in consultation, teaching, and research within the general hospital environment
Frontline operational aspects include:
- Rapid response to urgent care needs, prioritising workload and supporting junior staff
- Cover for the Nurse Team Leader as necessary
- Reporting to AMHLS Leadership for line management supervision
Critical Requirement: Active NMC Pin status. Full application submission is required.
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📍 Location: Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH)
⊕ Contract type: Permanent, part-time role available
Key Responsibilities
- Lead assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care
- Determine observation levels for inpatients via risk stratification and advise other hospital teams
- Ensure compliance with operational referral timescales
- Serve as a referral resource, advising on team eligibility
- Deliver crisis mental health triage support in partnership with Scottish Ambulance Paramedic Service
- Address patients’ health promotion needs in diverse settings
- Provide clinical supervision/caseload mentorship for junior staff
- Collaborate with voluntary/agency partners, attend MDT and case conferences
(Further details under official job description/templates.)
Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience
A registered mental health nurse with:
✅ Level 1 NMC registration (active) ✅ Degree-equivalent education or comparable workplace expertise ✅ Specialist expertise in complex mental health care and psychosocial crises ✅ Postgraduate professional incidence, clinical risk assessment, and management practices ✅ Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD) ✅ Track record in line-management supervision as senior/leading clinician
Desirable Supporting Experience 🔹 Completion of an evidence-based psychological therapies programme 🔹 Frontline leadership (e.g., management graduate programmes) 🔹 Postgraduate qualifications or community mental health experience
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Benefits & Offer
NHSGGC enhances your professional and personal journey with:
📅 Leave: Minimum 27 days annualised holidays, plus public holidays 📋 Pension: NHS Pension Scheme with (hmany employer contribution to life insurance) 🚗 Pride sort Benefit Shcheme 📚 Learning & Development: Bursaries, e-learning, classroom courses (study support) 🙌 Work-Life Support:
- Counselling & psychological therapies access (Employee Assistance Programme)
- NHS-wide & staff discounts on goods, travel, life insurance, etc.
- Salary sacrifice car benefit scheme & public holiday premium annual pay ⚡ Flexibility: Sustained commitment to flexible working arrangements
Who We Are: An Inclusive, Supportive NHS
NHSGGC is Forces Friendly — we recognise military experience as a valued skillset, from personnel to veteran equalities.
We prioritise: ✔ Equality diversity and inclusion in recruitment and work environment ✔ Flexible arrangements where feasible ✔ Leadership that fosters career growth
Talent awaits candidates who reflect, authentically, their own skills in application. (AI guidance is provided, yet personal substance remains unpublished.)
How to Apply
For eligibility clarity or discussion, contact:
📍 Nurse Team Leader: Scott Farmer 📧 Email: scott.farmer@nhs.scot ☎ Phone: +44 141 201 2422
Note: Applications may experience early closure due to high demand. No controller will return shortlisting status.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of everything we do.
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