Urgent Care Practitioner - Incentives Apply

at  Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

If you enjoy the complexity, challenge and fast pace of working in acute mental health this role is for you. As a member of the multi-disciplinary Mental Health Liaison Team at St Richards Hospital you will be supporting people experiencing a Mental Health crisis in addition to those who may be experiencing a relapse in their diagnosed mental illness. A number of our patients are referred with self-harm or a history of self-harming behaviours. MHLT also receive referrals from patients admitted to the wards with complex physical and mental health problems.
The role involves working alongside the Acute hospital and other colleagues including drugs and alcohol services, Social Services and charitable organistaions involved in the patients care and ongoing support. The team follow The Core 24 model and are a 24/7 service.
Within the multi-disciplinary team you would be working with the Team Leader, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologist, and Urgent Care Practitioners.
The role of this team is the assessment and planning of care of patients and a sound knowledge of pathways of care You will be liaising with other mental health services and agencies, in addition to acute inpatient units. This role will involve assessment and planning of onward care . It is preferable to have some experience of working in acute care (inpatient setting/crisis team/mental health liaison team). In the post you will be working flexible hours to enable the team to provide a 7-day service in line with Core 24.
You will receive regular supervision and have the opportunity for personal and professional development as well as contributing to the team’s development. Please contact the team leader if you wish to discuss this further.
This is a seven day per week service from , which will necessitate some shift work and unsocial hours with enhancements.
You will be joining a committed and dynamic multidisciplinary team and will be fully supported and empowered to make a difference to creatively develop many new ways of working, towards building safe and responsive quality mental health services fit for the future.
In return we can offer a supportive working environment and access to training opportunities to assist you to realise your potential and achieve a greater degree of job satisfaction.
To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.

Please refer the Job description for details