Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Urgent Care Practitioner/RMN - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team
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We have an opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
We have 2 posts available as secondment or fixed term contracts; one full time (37.5 hours per week) and one part-time (30 hours per week) for 12 months.
About the Role
to join to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) at MillView Hospital, covering Brighton and Hove.
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.
Key Responsibilities
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.
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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.
About Us
We are committed to ensuring that mental health care is co-produced wherever possible and delivered in a person-centred, compassionate, and supportive way.
Mental Healthcare should promote safety and wellbeing while addressing social care needs and ensuring equality and fairness for all. It should be needs-led, outcome-focused, responsive and delivered in a way that empowers people to build on their strengths, promotes recovery, and supports families and carers.
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We support flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Your Benefits
- Access to psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- Free parking on-site
- Access to a host of discount schemes
- A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
- Excellent NHS Pension
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Kimann Jones
- Job title: Team Lead
- Email address: kimann.jones2@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0300 304 0081
Tim Hewett
Urgent Care Service Manager
- Email address: tim.hewett1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0300 304 0081
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