DICE Team Overview
Due to newly acquired funding, we are looking to expand our provision of enhanced support for children and young people with autism and / or learning disabilities who are at risk of psychiatric admission. The post holder will be a member of the DICE (Disability Intensive Care Enhanced) team, who work to prevent avoidable psychiatric admissions for children and young people with learning disabilities and / or autism. The DICE team provides intensive support for children and young people with learning disabilities and/or autism during times of crisis and recovery when discharged back to the care of community services. Our aim is to prevent avoidable hospital admissions, stabilise crises, and support recovery in the community. The team provides short term intensive intervention, working collaboratively with individuals, families, carers, and local services, to stabilise and enable people to live safely and meaningfully in the community. Nurses are an essential part of this work, with holistic assessment and formulation a key part of this role.
Responsibilities
* Deliver holistic assessments that identify areas of need, and devise care plans to meet these assessed needs.
* Work within the wider multidisciplinary team to reduce the risk of inappropriate psychiatric hospital admission.
* Identify where the nursing process can be utilised to implement care.
* Offer clinical and management supervision to identified members of the team.
* Develop your skills within leadership, multidisciplinary and multiagency working.
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4,000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, and specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. Applicants may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check; in most cases a DBS certificate will be cost shared by the applicant over 3 months and the Trust will reimburse the cost and maintain the DBS update service subscription.
All successful applicants must complete the Trust's induction programme. Statutory and mandatory training modules (approx. 9-14 hours depending on the post) must be completed online by the end of the second week with us.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Non UK /Republic of Ireland candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here. The minimum salary threshold for a Health and Social Care is £25,000 and for the Skilled Worker route is £38,700. If the starting salary for this role is below this, we will not be able to provide sponsorship.
Relocation expenses may be reimbursed subject to eligibility. The policy provides for reimbursement up to £8,000.
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