Urgent Care Practitioner - Incentives apply

at  Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

A really exciting opportunity has arisen in the Eastbourne Mental Health Liaison Team. In order that we can provide an enhanced 24 hour service we are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, caring and creative Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse to work as part of Mental Health Liaison Team over the weekends. The role will involve working with people who have been referred to the Mental health liaison team via A&E, Blue Light, Street Triage, SMHL and our third sector partner Staying Well. It also involves working with people who are inpatients at the Eastbourne District General Hospital and are experiencing a mental health crisis and require our support.
This post is to cover the service over the weekend, Saturday and Sunday.
You will need to be flexible and adaptable as modern mental health services are constantly changing in response to best practice. You will be joining a committed and dynamic 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.
You will be required to have strong assessment, communication and people skills and demonstrate a desire and ability to meet community service demands in an ever changing landscape.
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.

Please refer the Job description for details