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Applications are invited for individuals to join our Intensive Home Treatment Team in Perth. The Team provides an emergency response, home treatment and early supported discharge service for people with mental health problems.
As the successful applicant you will have experience of working as a Band 5 RMN with people who have a wide range of mental health problems.
As the post holder, you will provide specialist mental health interventions focusing on the management of crisis, home treatment and intensive support of people being discharged from in-patient care. You will work jointly with members of the Team to undertake individualised assessments of people in acute mental health crisis and will have a key role in developing, monitoring and evaluating treatment plans working in partnership with service users.
As a lone worker in the community you will develop, deliver and evaluate specialist psychological and psychosocial interventions working with people to facilitate, enable, and support them within their homes and communities. You will also be required to provide a supervisory role to junior members of staff within the Team.
The ability to travel is essential to meet the job requirements, as is the ability to work as part of a shift rota system.
Being an approachable and responsible individual with an attitude to support excellent team working and growth of strong interpersonal relationships across the teams will be critical values and qualities to developing high performance to ensure the delivery of the best care experience possible.
NHS Tayside is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.
NHS Tayside is a Values Based Organisation and is both passionate about and committed to the values of NHS Scotland which are:
- Dignity and Respect
- Openness, Honest and Responsibility
- Quality and Teamwork
- Care and Compassion
We have a structured staff review system and offer professional support through our clinical networks. We are committed to regular in-service training and personal and professional development.
You must be registered on Sub-part 1: RN1 or RNA or Sub-part 2: RN2 of the NMC Register
Informal enquiries to: Jackie Fleming, Team Lead – 01738 562223
Hours of work are: 37.5
Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.