Chichester CRHTT Discharge Team Lead post - Fixed Term 6 months and could be extended to 1 year, 3 days a week total of 22.5 hours a week.
A great opportunity has arisen for a Fixed Term CRHTT Discharge Team Lead in the Chichester Crisis Home Treatment Team Leader to work within Urgent Care Service.
Main duties of the job
The Discharge Team leader is an integral member of the urgent care team responsible for working within urgent care services and acute in-patient teams as the point of contact for supported discharge, referrals and assessments. They will carry out psychosocial assessments, including risk assessment, formulation of a clinically appropriate onward plan of care liaising with in-patient wards, CRHTT, community teams, carers and patients and other agencies.
About us
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trusthas teaching status and is developing into one of the country's leading teaching mental health trusts.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will attend regular multi-disciplinary meetings with acute in-patient teams discussing patients and those suitable for supported discharge. They will support the flow of patients through acute services and ensure complex discharge pathways are identified at the earliest opportunity.
The Discharge Team Leader role is to review Coastal patients at Oaklands ward Chichester and within outlying SPFT in-patient beds and extra-contractual beds liaising with in-patient units and community teams.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered professional in Healthcare
* Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
Experience/Knowledge
* Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice
* Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
* Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance
* Experience of managing staff
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.
Urgent Care Manager for Chichester and Bognor Area
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