About this role
Job summary
Dudley Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team
To deliver a fast paced ever evolving Mental Health Service, we need nurses who like to be in a fact paced environment and who can flex and adapt to the needs in the moment. No 2 days are the same.
BCHFT CRHT is always looking for ambitious, capable individuals who share can support preventing hospital admissions by providing top class care to patients in their own home. You will not be carrying your own caseload, this is a team caseload.
Main duties of the job
We currently have a vacancies for Band 6 Mental Health Professionals to support the on going development for Pan Trust Services. This provides an opportunity for an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse/Community Psychiatric Nurse to support and further develop our expanding Crisis Home Treatment Team. The post holder will work with a full Multi-Disciplinary Team to develop and provide a range of support to patients and their relatives. The successful candidates will need to be able to work effectively at a range of levels and situations. The post holder will require enthusiasm for service development and the ability to work with a complex and changing service therefore excellent communication and leadership skills are required.
Dudley Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team is committed to delivering high quality safe care to service users with acute mental health symptoms, in their own homes. The team provides intensive levels of support to prevent hospital admissions . The service currently operates 24/7 365 days a year therefore nightshifts, weekends and bank holidays will be part of the shift pattern.
You will need to be able to identify if the risks are increasing and come back to the MDT to discuss the need to request a MHA assessment. We are the gatekeepers for patients who might need a bed within the Trust so you will need to be attending MHA assessments as part of your role and alerting bed management to needs.
About us
At Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, we're building a high-calibre, diverse and inclusive mental health workforce. One that will give talented professionals like you the opportunity to shape an outstanding service that will transform community mental healthcare and deliver happier and healthier lives all across our communities.
The Trust is rated 'Good' from CQC (Care Quality Commission) and will become the lead provider for mental health services across The Black Country . We have recently invested in newly created clinical divisions and are currently developing new models of integrated primary and secondary care for adults and older adults, as well launching a far-reaching inpatient strategy, working to eradicate dormitories and building new facilities.
This ambitious model is multi-agency and multi-disciplinary, opening the door for you to work in a collaborative and flexible way with partners, service users, carers and their families.
Job description Job responsibilities
We are committed to delivering a high standard of multi-disciplinary recovery focused care; the post holder would be an integral part of this process and will be essential to improving service delivery.
we pride ourselves on our patient relationships and the engagement from all our team in supporting our patients and preventing hospital admissions. We are compassionate and patient focused. As a team we have a wealth of experience and knowledge.
Should you wish to discuss this post please contact any member of the senior team.
Sally McCoy Team Manager [email protected]
Richard Clarke Senior Clinical Lead [email protected]
Amy Charters Senior Clinical Lead [email protected]
Lika O'Tabs Senior Clinical Lead liak.o'[email protected]
Switchboard for the team 0138324578
Person Specification
Essential Essential
Education/Qualification: RMN, current registration, evidence of continued development Experience: managing acute mental illness, previous B5 post, case management, strong clinical leadership, audit processes. MDT working, supervision Knowledge: Mental Health Act, Mental Health/Diagnosis, Risk Assessment, Capacity/DolS/ Infection Control, Skills/Personal Qualities: Interpersonal skills, Willingness for professional development, ability to manage emergency situations, self-motivated Trust Vision: be caring, enabling, working together, integrity
Desirable
Mentor Qualification
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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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Sandringham as primary base with possibility of working pan trust when required
Dudley
DY1 2LZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)