Job summary
The Eastbourne Urgent Care Team are seeking to recruit a suitably qualified Practitioner to work within our Department, with a special interest in substance misuse. The successful candidate must have relevant qualifications related to this speciality or be able to demonstrate significant experience of expertise.
You will work closely with voluntary sector partners, Acute Hospital Trust and Urgent Care Mental Health teams and GPs to provide accessible, high quality clinical consultation, assessment, and tailored one-to-one substance use and mental health interventions. You will provide a vital safety net for people at risk of falling into the gaps between traditional services.
The people you will work with will often present to Mental Health Urgent care services, such as Crisis Resolution Home Treatment team and Emergency Department in the Acute Hospital. We want to develop excellent links to local teams to ensure people move seamlessly if we aren't best placed to help them. This includes CGL, other SPFT community teams (ATS, Wellbeing etc.) and third sector partners.
Main duties of the job
Eastbourne Urgent Care offers staff excellent training, support, and supervision as standard.
Encountering people with a range of dual diagnosis and mental health needs, you will have outstanding engagement and assessment skills, and will work with appropriate service users to establish them on the right support pathway. You will communicate closely with service users, GPs, secondary care services, carers, and voluntary sector networks. You will make sure that people's needs are fully understood at the earliest point, often providing a bridge between primary and secondary care.
Your experience and interventions will be vital to preventing deterioration in previously stable patients, and supporting GPs and voluntary sector colleagues to provide safe, evidence-based substance use and mental health support.
About us
Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, and ensures our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. We know that a positive work / life balance brings about massive 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 or finish times, or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Your benefits:
- Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- Access to a host of discount schemes, and excellent NHS pension
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with continuous NHS service)
- A 'Golden Hello' or relocation package for non-SPFT staff of up to £2000 (see attached documentation for terms and conditions)
Job description
Job responsibilities
We strongly encourage you to give us a ring to discuss this exciting role in advance of your application and informal visits are welcome.
We are looking for a self-motivated, energetic, and creative clinician who can not only deliver great care, but also to support other non-specialist staff to understand and work more effectively with mental health service users.
You will have substantial, transferable substance use and mental health skills (whether inpatient or community), and up to date professional registration from a core mental health profession.
We are looking for practitioners who can build partnerships, and can work flexibly and adaptively in developing this new and exciting opportunity.
Please note: this role is open to RMN Mental Health Nursing professionals with current registration on the NMC register only. Applicants without this core professional qualification or registration will not be shortlisted.
Person Specification
Skills / Experience
Essential
- RMN with current registration
- Extensive post qualifying experience in relevant service area
- Degree/diploma and specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to masters level equivalent relevant to the care group
- Experience of supervising staff and students
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Department of Psychiatry
Kings Drive
Eastbourne
BN21 2UD