Band 6 Mental Health Nurse
Sussex Partnership NHS Trust
Mid Sussex Recovery and Wellbeing Service
Linwood, Butler's Green Rd, Haywards Heath RH16 4BE
3 Month Contract
Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00 (37.5 Hours per week)
£27ph Weekdays
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Mental Health Nurse to join our Recovery & Wellbeing Team. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and provide specialist assessment, treatment and care to a caseload of people with a range of mental health problems from the local community. You must be enthusiastic, self-motivated, flexible and able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and demonstrate a commitment to the recovery model. Workers will need to visit service users in the community, and will need their own transport.
Key Responsibilities
1. Working autonomously as a Lead Practitioner to a defined caseload of clients, offering specific interventions to people diagnosed with mood/anxiety disorders, psychosis or complex emotional difficulties.
2. Completing initial assessments and working closely with our referrals co-ordinators.
3. Undertaking assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk.
4. Developing care plans alongside the service user.
5. Offering specialist clinical assessment and advice where required.
6. Assessing and managing ongoing risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring collaboration with the service user and carers.
7. Regularly reviewing risk factors and making changes to the management of them as necessary.
8. Participating in the planning, development and evaluation of profession-specific and local multi-professional services.
9. Ensuring that clinical practice is evidence-based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
10. Providing supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
11. Acting within the relevant professional code of conduct at all times.
We offer a £250 bonus for starting a contract with SCS.
If you know anyone looking for work and you refer them, we offer a £250 referral bonus per person.
If this role is of interest, please respond to this advert with an up-to-date copy of your CV or call Jake on 01772 208963. #J-18808-Ljbffr