Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
To work as a member of the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team, delivering support to patients and their families using evidence-based, profession-specific, and general mental health knowledge. This role provides client-centered, recovery-oriented principles and practice for individuals, families, and carers referred to the Service. You will also work within the Rapid Response function, undertaking assessments 24/7 received from the Urgent Mental Health Helpline as well as performing gatekeeping assessments. Work will be conducted in accordance with Trust and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team Policies and Procedures and the Care Programme Approach, providing an alternative to inpatient admission by treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress.
Main duties of the job
1. Demonstrates ability to work as a team member as well as alone, making autonomous decisions in a fast-paced environment.
2. Supporting Band 7 to manage a caseload of service users who have complex acute/crisis needs.
3. Balancing all aspects of the job role.
4. Being flexible and responsive to competing demands.
About us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England, where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, serving an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard; everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman is recognized as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our mission is what we set out to do every day: We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.
Our vision is where we want to be in the future: To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Job responsibilities
1. Working with service users referred to the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service.
2. To screen and work with all newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crises, providing assessment or short-term interventions until the crisis is resolved.
3. To provide short-term specific psychosocial interventions for those who would benefit from crisis interventions.
4. To ensure documentation is reviewed and updated in line with quality improvement standards.
5. To shift coordinate and lead the shift, allocating work to the wider MDT and prioritizing workloads.
6. To contribute to the planning and implementation of induction, training, and education of students and staff.
7. To contribute to the delivery of specialist/professional training packages of in-service training and staff development when necessary.
8. To fulfill the role of mentor/practice educator, maintaining own update training and ensuring responsibility for regular placement provision and ensuring supervision and written assessment of students whilst on placement.
9. To assist the Band 7 senior practitioner by identifying personal and professional training needs in order to appropriately plan for future training and development.
10. To provide effective supervision, support, and guidance for support/STR/peer workers and any work delegated to them.
11. Responsible for the delivery of individual care plans for a caseload.
12. Expected to implement policies as directed by the Trust/directorate for the department, ensuring awareness throughout the department.
13. Participate in leading service developments.
Person Specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
* Registration with the relevant regulatory body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
* Further training relevant to the role.
Experience
* Experience working in mental health services.
* Experience of prioritizing casework and allocation/delegation of tasks to others.
* Experience of liaising with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to organizations.
* Ability to work a 24hr shift pattern including day shifts, night shifts, and weekend shifts.
* Experience working within a Crisis Home Treatment Team.
Knowledge and Skills
* Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g., Care Programme Approach, Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
* An understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
* Understanding of the impact of mental health crises on lifestyle and function for clients, family, and carers, and common pharmacological and psychosocial treatments.
* Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times, especially in complex/challenging situations.
* Ability to work autonomously and cooperatively as part of an interprofessional team.
* Ability to motivate, empower, and enable others.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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