Crisis Practitioner – Crisis Team

As part a multi-disciplinary/agency Crisis Team within the whole system of Community Mental Health Services you will work closely with all disciplines/agencies. You will provide a service for individuals with complex mental health, physical and social care needs who present in crisis and who may require intensive home treatment/care as an alternative to hospital admission. In addition to this to facilitate early discharge of individuals in hospital you will be expected to be closely involved in discharge planning and immediate follow up from acute in patient care. This may also include assessment whilst on pass from acute in service user care. Supervising the practice of, and demonstrating procedures to, students and unqualified staff will be an important aspect of the role as will be the mentoring of students undergoing basic training. You must be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration, A current Driving Licence is required for this post. This post is for Glasgow City HSCP and you may be required to move within the HSCP. The hours of this post are worked Mon-Fri 9am- 5pm Mon-Fri 12pm-8pm Sat-Sun 9am-5pm PHs 9am-5pm. This post requires membership of Disclosure Scotland’s PVG Scheme. PLEASE READ AND SAVE THE CANDIDATE APPLICATION PACK BEFORE SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION. This post closes on the 24th May 2019.