Mental Health Senior Charge Nurse
Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse looking for a new opportunity?
Do you have experience of working in a fast-paced environment within a large organisation?
Are you passionate about engaging with others and working as part of a team to achieve shared goals?
Who We Are
As NHS Scotland's unique provider of a national tele-health and tele-care service, we are responsible for the delivery of health advice and information by telephone and online services to the population of Scotland 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. NHS 24 is a patient-focused service providing the people of Scotland with triage, advice, guidance, referral and information on health and healthcare services
Our Regional Centres are located at Cardonald, Clydebank, South Queensferry, Dundee and Aberdeen. This post will be based in our Cardonald Regional Centre.
The Role
Clinical Lead will provide brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation, short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis. Using a range of brief solution-focused interventions, Clinical Leads will empower patients, carers and their families in decision making and divert to a range of health and social care resources for support.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Promoting a recovery model that empowers patients, carers and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.
- Build and maintain relationships with colleagues to ensure effective communication across NHS 24 sites and externally with Partner Agencies (e.g. Out of Hours (OOH) Services, Ambulance Services, and Accident & Emergency (A&E) Units, GPs, Integration Joint Boards, Health & Social Care Partners)
- Providing clinical support and professional leadership to the mental health multi-disciplinary team, to ensure the ongoing development of the service and the individual practitioner
- Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence; setting, implementing and monitoring evidence-based policies, procedures and protocols.
- Influencing clinical decisions and monitor the quality of patient care using expert clinical knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
Successful Applicant will:
- Possess a Mental Health Nurse qualification and valid NMC Registration
- Demonstrate significant post registration experience across a wide area of mental health service provision, particularly relevant would be experience of working within liaison psychiatry, crisis services or intensive home treatment teams.
- Demonstrate experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff.
Benefits
NHS 24 offers a complete benefits package, with a permanent contract on Band 7 £52,845 - £61,466 Per Annum (pro rata if applicable). Placement on salary scale is dependent on confirmation of previous relevant NHS service.
We also offer you many supportive policies to enhance your employee journey and have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme Provider, Cycle to Work Scheme, bursary scheme and a range of learning and development. As an NHS Scotland employee you will be entitled to:
- 35 days annual leave (rising to 41) pro-rata
- Development opportunities including study bursaries, e-learning and classroom-based courses
- Enhanced pay for working public holidays
- Enrolment into the Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA) pension scheme
- NHS discounts on goods and services
- HELP, employee support and assistance
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and experienced individual who is looking for a challenging and rewarding role that will contribute to the success of a public organisation.
Interested?
For an informal discussion, please contact Melissa Mack, Clinical Services Manager via email at Melissa.Mack@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk
Please download the digital Job Pack and Person Specification for full details of NHS 24 and this opportunity as well as the Candidate Application Guide which will support you in your application.
We recommend that prior to application candidates read all the information provided in the job pack as it contains much of the information about NHS 24 and this opportunity as well as the Digital Candidate Application Guide which will support you in your application.
Our mission at NHS 24 is to create a workplace where everyone feels welcome, valued and part of the team. As an organisation that promotes inclusion, we celebrate difference, and we encourage everyone who joins us to be themselves at work.
We are progressing an Anti-Racism Action Plan, which builds on our existing equalities work, and this will help us to measure our progress towards becoming an anti-racist organisation.
NHS 24 is an equal opportunities employer committed to advancing equality and particularly welcomes applications from groups of people currently underrepresented within the workforce. We are a committed participant in the Disability Confident Leader Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visas as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
Please note that NHS 24 is NOT licensed to issue certificates of sponsorship under current UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) regulations. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship to work with us.
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