Speciality Clinical Nurse For MHAIDS ED Team

Speciality Clinical Nurse For MHAIDS ED Team

Location: Wellington Regional Hospital

Contract: Permanent, Full time & Part time, (0.7-1 FTE) Monday to Friday

About the Role

The role of the Speciality Clinical Nurse for the MHAIDS ED team is based in the Wellington Emergency Department and provides rapid assessments for all people including current mental health service users who present to the Emergency Department with a mental health problem. The primary function will be to triage assessment and formulate current needs and issues, develop a crisis response plan and, where indicated, provide immediate mental health intervention and/or facilitate access to MHAID services or other relevant services in the community. The Speciality Clinical Nurse will determine those who need to be seen urgently, while being able to safely defer less urgent referrals to non-crisis parts of the mental health and addiction services or primary health s...