Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work)
- Job ref
- 363-CH6529135
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Raybould Centre
- Town
- LONDON
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 per annum inclusive of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Practitioner - Psych Liaison and Crisis Assessment Team
Band 6
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
New opportunity for a highly skilled, resilient and resourceful individual contribute to the transition and development of the reformed Mental Health Crisis pathways.
You will gain substantial experience in the variety of crisis response services working together to provide quick and highly skilled interventions to individuals presenting with a variety of crises.
You will gain the experience of working with individuals presenting through different stages of crisis presentations; in the emergency department as part of the Psychiatry liaison service and as part of our Crisis Assessment Team and in our crisis assessment hub. You will have the ability to identify those who need an urgent assessment and have the opportunity, to offer these individuals an assessment promptly.
Whilst the majority of working time will be within the psych liaison team, you will occasionally be doing 6 week rotations to work with the Crisis Assessment Team, who assess mental health crises that do not require the A&E environment.
Main duties of the job
You will have the opportunity to work as part of the rotation between Homerton Psychiatic Liaison and our Urgent assessment team, and work towards developing a cohesive crisis service pathway and supporting staffs professional development, experience, skills and knowledge. You will also be supported to develop skills through training provided by the trust to build assessment and formulation skills, risk management of psychotic, depressive, self-harm and suicidal presentation, and various other areas via our in-house training programme.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- o Registered Mental Health Nurse, Registered Social Worker or Registered Occupational Therapist
- o Current Professional Registration
- o Masters level Mental Health Qualification
- o Evidence of non-statutory continual professional development
- o CBT and/or brief intervention /solution focused therapy and/or motivational interviewing or willingness to undertake
Desirable criteria
- o Mentorship Preparation or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- o Substantial post qualification experience in the field of mental health crisis
- o Previous experience at working autonomously
- o Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working
- o Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and of ensuring that nursing practice is culturally sensitive
- o Experience of contributing to the development of new services preferably in mental health
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- o Demonstrate well developed assessment skills and ability to make balanced clinical judgments
- o Demonstrate skills in providing effective nursing leadership
- o Demonstrate skills in working in a rapidly changing environment
- o Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- o Demonstrate excellent problem solving skills
- Demonstrate ability to work with speed and precision under pressure
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Tanner
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02085108980
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