An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Nurse Practitioner (SNP) to be part of our Hastings and Rother Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (NMHT). You will be part of the clinical leadership team within the team and take a lead with our Triage Team, ensuring the safe delivery and management of referrals into NMHT.
We are looking for a practitioner that works well independently, within a multidisciplinary team and can build meaningful working relationships with our partners and aligned services within our NMHTs. The ability to build trusting relationships, work collaboratively with, and have a sound working knowledge of stakeholders, including service users, families and carers, private providers and local mental health care teams will be essential.
You will be joining a committed and dynamic team and will be fully supported and empowered to creatively develop many new ways of working towards building safe and responsive quality mental health services fit for the future. High personal resilience and a can-do attitude are essential. We would expect you to lead by example and be able to demonstrate our Trust values and behaviours.
Responsibilities
* Have substantial clinical experience within a community mental health setting and demonstrate leadership acumen.
* Work collaboratively across a range of partners, building meaningful working relationships.
* Ensure referrals into the NMHT are triaged and managed within agreed time scales and appropriate to clinical need.
* Possess excellent assessment skills and working knowledge of mental health services and third sector organisations.
* Maintain excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build trusting relationships with families, carers, local partners, and within the NMHT.
* Work flexibly in multidisciplinary and multiprofessional teams and in a range of settings.
* Provide strong clinical leadership and expertise to the multidisciplinary team and NMHT, ensuring high clinical standards.
* Work closely with the medical team to ensure effective patient flow and discharge management.
* Possess excellent risk management skills and support others to manage risk.
* Demonstrate personal resilience and support colleagues in managing challenging situations.
* Support colleagues in managing complex changes to meet service expectations and needs.
* Provide line management and supervision to junior colleagues.
* Deliver specialist assessments and nursing interventions to patients within the care group.
* Participate in review of clinical policies and guidelines.
* Support and implement changes to practice; liaise with other organisations and professionals to promote communication and good practice.
* Undertake audit activity and provide supervision to other staff in the service area.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role.
* Degree/diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to masters level equivalent relevant to the care group.
* Evidence of post registration training in relevant service area.
* Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent.
Knowledge/Experience
* Extensive post qualifying experience in relevant service area.
* Experience of supervising staff and students.
* Able to manage a caseload of patients with complex mental health needs.
* Comprehensive knowledge of interventions specific to service area.
* Awareness of Trust policies and service specification.
Extensive post qualifying experience working in community mental health settings. Experience of providing professional support /supervision and motivation to staff. Experience of managing staff. Experience overseeing a caseload of patients with complex mental health needs. Comprehensive knowledge of interventions specific to service area. Have experience on leading the management of care for patients with challenging and complex presentations.
Benefits
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. As a Lead in our team we can offer you: Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for leadership 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
Additional Information
You will be expected to work across the Hastings and Rother NMHTs. This post is currently 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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