Clinical Nurse Specialist

Overview

We wish to recruit a practitioner who has specialist knowledge, experience and / or training in mental health risk management. These skills would provide clinical expertise to support and further develop an established multi-disciplinary team in a Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team. The multi-disciplinary team are made up of Urgent Care Practitioners, CRHTT team leader, Discharge team leader, Psychologists, Senior Support Workers and Peer Support workers. You will work in the CRHTT working alongside a Team Leader, a Discharge Lead and a Service Manager.

Responsibilities

• To provide comprehensive assessments of mental health specific to the needs of service area.
• To manage a caseload of clients with complex mental health needs and undertake case management / lead professional / CPA as needed.
• To be able to communicate with and meet the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and the individual client.
• To have experience of and specialist knowledge on interventions to be able to lead in a clinical area.
• To utilise specialist care group knowledge to provide specialist training and advice to other professionals, students and agencies.
• To develop teaching and training sessions for staff and professionals on specialist subject areas relevant to the care group.
• To develop service pathways for clients in care group and contribute to the ongoing development of the service.
• Participate in service development.
• Ability to lead clinical discussions in team.
• We are really keen to talk to prospective candidates about the service and about their ideas for the role. We would therefore strongly encourage you to make contact for an informal discussion.
• To protect the health and safety of our staff / workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.

Qualifications and Experience

About the role and benefits

We’re looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.

What we offer : flexible working where possible, fully funded lifelong learning opportunities (from GCSE to Masters level), and opportunities to bring fresh ideas to improve services. You will join a health and care system committed to working together to serve communities. Our Trust is developing into a leading teaching mental health trust.

We encourage flexible working (e.g., home-working, part-time hours, flexible start / finish times). If it works for you and the role, we will do our best to accommodate.

Equal opportunities and safeguarding

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is committed to a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. We welcome applications from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities.

We take safeguarding seriously and expect staff and bank workers to familiarise themselves with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the safeguarding procedures for vulnerable adults and young people, and undertake the relevant essential training for their role.

If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume you have been unsuccessful. In the event of an excessive number of applicants, the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience can be demonstrated, this may be considered when setting the starting salary.

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