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Clinical Nurse Specialist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
354-AE-20998
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Department of Psychiatry
Town
Eastbourne
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/07/2024 23:59

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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Substance Misuse - Incentives Apply

NHS AfC: Band 7

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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)

Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
  • 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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lynn Hodges
Job title
Team Leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 304 0645
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