Community Mental Health Triage Nurse

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Hastings and Rother Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (Specialist Adults) Triage Team for a registered Mental Health Nurse who has experience of working with individuals in a community mental health setting. The Specialist Adults Service (previously known as the Assessment and Treatment Service) is a team supporting adults with complex mental health needs. Your role will be to triage, assess and make clinical decisions to support individuals referred to our service in meeting their mental health support needs withing our integrated mental health system.

Getting these decisions right will be vital to ensure that support is offered in a safe and timely manner within the most appropriate treatment pathways. You will need to have finely honed clinical assessment skills and be a decisive and highly skilled communicator. The ability to work autonomously and under pressure will be a requirement. You will be supported by a Triage Lead as well as a team of multidisciplinary colleagues on a daily basis and have access to decision making spaces within the team where further discussions are required.

You will be joining a warm, friendly, highly supportive team of dedicated colleagues who work together to offer the best possible service to the people we support. In return, we offer access to training opportunities to assist you in realising your potential and achieving a greater degree of job satisfaction.

• Oversight of Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT) referrals into triage.
• Being the point of contact for our NMHT, referrals into the service and providing a point of contact for individuals initially referred into the service and their families and carers.
• Gathering information and liaison with relevant professionals and agencies.
• Making appropriate treatment and support decisions using the different pathway options within the NMHT.
• Risk screening referrals over the phone.
• Providing a point of contact for individuals initially referred into the service to discuss their presenting concerns, risk and care pathway.
• Completion of intake assessments.
• Supporting and engaging with carers and families to provide information relevant to the referral as part of the team's approach to the triangle of care.
• Attend team meetings weekly to discuss complex and risky referrals within an MDT setting.
• Supervision of junior staff and mentorship of students.
• Covering urgent registered work within the service.

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do. If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding Specialist Adults Mental Health Team in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you.

Hastings is a vibrant seaside town, offering affordable coastal living along with independent shopping and a variety of cafes, bars and restaurants and a very creative music and artistic scene.

Benefits:

• Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Flexible working patterns
• Reimbursed parking
• Child care vouchers
• Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
• Generous holiday entitlement (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays
• NHS Pension contributions

• Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

• Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively…