Mental Health Senior Charge Nurse

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation, short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis.
• Use a range of brief solution-focused interventions to empower patients, carers and their families in decision making and divert to a range of health and social care resources for support.
• Promote 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.
• 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).
• Support and lead 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.
• Influence clinical decisions and monitor the quality of patient care using expert clinical knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.

Requirements

• Mental Health Nurse qualification and valid NMC Registration.
• 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.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff.

Qualifications

Successful applicant will possess a Mental Health Nurse qualification and valid NMC Registration.

Skills

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.

Pay

£52,845 - £61,466 Per Annum (pro rata if applicable)

Schedule

Permanent contract