SOAMHS Intensive Support Practitioner - RMN

We are looking for 3 Band 6 RMNs to fill the role of Intensive Support Practitioner and to join us and be at the forefront of leading the community transformation changes. As part of our community transformation plans, we are starting to develop our Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams. The Intensive Support service is part of the bigger DOPMHS team that provides intensive support for patients who are in crisis. This will be a team of multi-disciplinary professionals who will provide assessment, treatment, and interventions including the provision of intensive support and treatment to enable people to receive care and treatment in their home setting and avoid the need for hospital admissions.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 5-6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

Main duties of the job

As an Intensive Support Practitioner, you will be working closely with other professionals in the multi-disciplinary team and managers to develop the intensive support and intervention function of the team whilst supporting the community transformation agenda. The aim of providing intensive support and interventions is to enable people to receive care in their own homes and avoid admission to hospital. You will have access to local clinical and professional supervision, regular training, and personal development opportunities.

About us

In return, you will bring us commitment, enthusiasm, and the ability to work as part of an innovative service that is always looking for ways to improve the care it delivers. Joining the Trust, you would become part of a network of professional nursing staff working with older adults and people with dementia (and their carers) and have the opportunity to network with, and learn from, colleagues in similar roles across the Trust.

Job responsibilities

In West Sussex, we are proud and excited to be working in partnership with local service providers across the health and social care system to provide high-quality, innovative, and joined-up care for older people with mental health needs and/or dementia and their families. In Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, there are Clinical Academic Groups that lead on best practice and research related to care pathways across the trust.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Management/Leadership training

Knowledge/Experience

• Significant post-qualifying experience in the relevant care group
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Previous experience of working in the community

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.