We know that service users recover quickly at home, and you will be an integral component for ensuring that this is done in a safe and specific way as an alternative to hospital admission, working alongside the wider MDT.
As a Band 6 Nurse in the CRHT, you will be responsible for providing urgent and emergency triage, advice and assessment for people in a mental health crisis. You will also be responsible for undertaking home treatment visits as indicated by the MDT. This will include the provision and delivery of highly skilled nursing care, including care planning and care delivery, biopsychosocial interventions, clinical risk assessment and management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.
You will be required to work autonomously, understand capacity and flow of the service and the organisation, attend MDT meetings, undertake gatekeeping assessments for inpatient admissions and crisis house admissions, work collaborative with the crisis house to lead on care for admissions as a service and facilitate early discharge from the inpatient wards where clinically indicated. As a Band 6 Nurse in the CRHT, you will also provide clinical leadership and supervision for junior staff.
To provide a clinical service that is service user focussed, accessible and responsive on 24-hour, 7-day a week basis.
To triage all mental health referrals into the Team to determine the priority for service response and the appropriate clinical pathway.
To provide and deliver highly skilled nursing care, including full mental health assessment, care planning and care delivery, biopsychosocial interventions, clinical risk assessment and management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.
To recommend and refer, where treatment is indicated, to the most appropriate team/service.
To undertake gatekeeping assessments for inpatient admissions and crisis house admissions.
To work collaboratively with the crisis house to lead on care for admissions as a service.
To facilitate early discharge from the inpatient wards where clinically indicated.
To deliver home based treatment interventions for all clients, ensuring best practice is implemented.
Where appropriate to participate in Mental Health Act assessments so that alternatives to formal hospital admission are considered.
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role