The Trust rated ‘Good’ in our recent CQC report, and winners at the Gloucestershire Health and Social Care Award’s ‘Mental Health Team of the Year 2016’, has a number of opportunities for Mental Health Nurses to join the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.
The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams are an integral part of Urgent Care Services providing triage and assessment, home treatment, gatekeeping of hospital beds, and providing telephone support to individuals suffering from psychological, emotional, and mental health distress. We are an open access service working with those aged 11 to end of life who are suffering from a functional illness.
We are now seeking highly motivated and committed band 5 nurses to join us in providing this service and complement our current team of professionals, assisting with the day-to-day running of the service and ensuring you are professionally accountable and responsible for service users’ care. As the ideal candidate for this post, you would be an RMN qualified nurse looking for a new challenge and seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives. We’re looking for candidates with excellent communication skills and a passion for helping those experiencing a mental health crisis. You will have the ability to build relationships with key partner agencies and help us to integrate more effectively with other services, as well as thrive in high-pressure situations.
Key Responsibilities:
To be a member of a multidisciplinary MHARS team that will provide a 24-hour, 7 days a week service. To participate in the provision of a comprehensive assessment, planning, short-term intervention, support, and education service to clients referred to the service with a range of psychiatric illnesses and mental health crises. To have face-to-face contact and provide telephone advice ensuring that the needs of the service users are met in the most sensitive and appropriate way. To maintain responsibility for a shared caseload of up to 20 to 30 service users. The post holder will receive regular supervision from Band 6 Clinicians and/or the Team Manager. The team operates a mixed economy shift system allowing staff to choose either a standard shift working pattern (7.5 hour shifts) or long shift working pattern (12 hour shifts). This is negotiated with the team manager, with those choosing to work long shifts having to pick up a regular short shift or long shift to make up contracted hours. Nights undertaken are 9.5 hours.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity, and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The post holder will be a member of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team working with people in Gloucestershire who are thought to be experiencing a period of mental health crisis or psychological distress. The service will provide an acute, mobile, 24-hour, 7 days a week community service as an alternative to hospitalization.
Additional Responsibilities:
To contribute to the rapid assessment and implementation of crisis resolution or evidence-based home treatment for service users who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis. To optimise the service user’s ability to remain in the community and/or be cared for in the least restrictive environment in line with the principles of recovery and social inclusion. To facilitate early discharge from hospital and respond to agencies requiring the assessment of clients who are being considered for immediate psychiatric hospitalization.
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The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams are an integral part of Urgent Care Services providing triage and assessment, home treatment, gatekeeping of hospital beds, and providing telephone support to individuals suffering from psychological, emotional, and mental health distress. We are an open access service working with those aged 11 to end of life who are suffering from a functional illness.
We are now seeking highly motivated and committed band 5 nurses to join us in providing this service and complement our current team of professionals, assisting with the day-to-day running of the service and ensuring you are professionally accountable and responsible for service users’ care. As the ideal candidate for this post, you would be an RMN qualified nurse looking for a new challenge and seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives. We’re looking for candidates with excellent communication skills and a passion for helping those experiencing a mental health crisis. You will have the ability to build relationships with key partner agencies and help us to integrate more effectively with other services, as well as thrive in high-pressure situations.
Key Responsibilities:
To be a member of a multidisciplinary MHARS team that will provide a 24-hour, 7 days a week service. To participate in the provision of a comprehensive assessment, planning, short-term intervention, support, and education service to clients referred to the service with a range of psychiatric illnesses and mental health crises. To have face-to-face contact and provide telephone advice ensuring that the needs of the service users are met in the most sensitive and appropriate way. To maintain responsibility for a shared caseload of up to 20 to 30 service users. The post holder will receive regular supervision from Band 6 Clinicians and/or the Team Manager. The team operates a mixed economy shift system allowing staff to choose either a standard shift working pattern (7.5 hour shifts) or long shift working pattern (12 hour shifts). This is negotiated with the team manager, with those choosing to work long shifts having to pick up a regular short shift or long shift to make up contracted hours. Nights undertaken are 9.5 hours.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity, and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The post holder will be a member of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team working with people in Gloucestershire who are thought to be experiencing a period of mental health crisis or psychological distress. The service will provide an acute, mobile, 24-hour, 7 days a week community service as an alternative to hospitalization.
Additional Responsibilities:
To contribute to the rapid assessment and implementation of crisis resolution or evidence-based home treatment for service users who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis. To optimise the service user’s ability to remain in the community and/or be cared for in the least restrictive environment in line with the principles of recovery and social inclusion. To facilitate early discharge from hospital and respond to agencies requiring the assessment of clients who are being considered for immediate psychiatric hospitalization.
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