Mental Health Nurse - Health Based Place of Safety inEdgbaston inEdgbaston PUBLISHED
THU 31 OCT 2024
The ideal candidate will also participate in mental health act processes, represent the service at professional meetings, and provide support to crisis and home treatment teams when necessary. This position is part of an innovative team dedicated to improving young people's mental health outcomes and offers an opportunity to contribute to the development of mental health services in Birmingham.
Are you ready to work in a new mental health trust with is leading the way in Young people's mental health care in Birmingham? Are you a mental health Nurse with CAMHS experience and want to make a real difference to the outcomes for the young people of Birmingham ?
An opportunity has become available to work within the CAMHS urgent care pathway, for Forward thinking Birmingham.
The team working with Young adults under 18 who are within our urgent care pathway. The team consists of Consultants, Lead nurses, senior mental health practitioners and support workers.
The team works across the city to offer the young adults of Birmingham specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention. We have an exciting opportunity to be opening the first ever psychiatry decisions unit (PDU) with a place of safety in a band new building.
This is an exciting post for a mental health nurse.
We are an innovative team and are always looking for new and dynamic ways of working.
Please contact us if you would like to hear more about this exciting opportunity!
Completing assessments of young peoples mental health and developing an individual plan of care
Developing and implementing robust risk management plans
Ensuring the physical wellbeing of the young person when in the case of the HBPOS
Representing the service at professionals meetings and relevant stakeholder events
Liaison with families and carers
Completing and holding oversight of mental health act processes and documentation
Supporting crisis and home treatment teams as needed
Please see job description for full details.
About us
See attached Job Description & Person Spec for full details, however in brief:
You will be responsible for coordinating the Health Based Place of Safety and the Psychiatric decisions unit. You will be responsible for managing and triaging referrals, completing mental health assessments and signposting as appropriate. There is the expectation that you will provide cross cover where needed to the rest of the urgent care pathway, ie: home treatment and/or crisis.
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