Job Description

Chichester CRHTT Discharge Team Lead post - Fixed Term 6 months and could be extended to 1 year, 3 days a week total of 22.5 hours a week.



A great opportunity has arisen for a Fixed Term CRHTT Discharge Team Lead in the Chichester Crisis Home Treatment Team Leader to work within Urgent Care Service.



The Discharge Team leader is an integral member of the urgent care team responsible for working within urgent care services and acute in-patient teams as the point of contact for supported discharge, referrals and assessments. They will carry out psychosocial assessments, including risk assessment, formulation of a clinically appropriate onward plan of care liaising with in-patient wards, CRHTT, community teams, carers and patients and other agencies.



Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has teaching status and is developing into one of the country's leading teaching mental health trusts.



We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge 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/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.



The post holder will attend regular multi-disciplinary meetings with acute in-patient teams discussing patients and those suitable for supported discharge. They will support the flow of patients through acute services and ensure complex discharge pathways are identified at the earliest opportunity.



The Discharge Team Leader role is to review Coastal patients at Oaklands ward Chichester and within outlying SPFT in-patient beds and extra-contractual beds liaising with in-patient units and community teams.