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 involves providing 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 undertaking gatekeeping assessments. Responsibilities include working 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. To work collaboratively with MDT members to contribute to a flexible and effective interdisciplinary team approach to clinical care.
2. Communicate face to face with clients on a daily basis, some of which display challenging behaviour.
3. To effectively establish a therapeutic relationship with service users and their relatives/carers.
4. To assess capacity and obtain informed consent from service users and work within a legal framework with those clients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
5. In conjunction with colleagues, undertake, record, review and work within individual risk assessment and management plans in line with service and Trust policy.
6. To provide mental health assessment of clients with acute mental health needs, clearly assessing and managing risks.
7. To lead joint reviews for patients with complex needs to plan transfer of care.
8. To ensure service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
9. To adapt practice to meet individual service users' circumstances, including regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
10. To work collaboratively with service users, staff, and relatives to identify goals and determine and deliver an appropriate intervention plan which aims to maximise engagement and performance whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
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 3,700 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.
Our strategy
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 description
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential
* Registration with relevant regulatory body. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Desirable
* Mentorship or practice educator qualification
* Further training relevant to the role
Experience
Essential
* Experience working in mental health service
* Experience of prioritising casework and allocation/delegation of tasks to others.
* Experience of liaising with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to organisations.
* To be able to work a 24hr shift pattern including day shifts, night shifts, and weekend shifts
Desirable
* Experience working within Crisis Home Treatment Team
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
* 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 crisis 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 co-operatively as part of an interprofessional team.
* Full driver's license and ability to drive to different sites within a timely manner.
Desirable
* Leadership skills
* Ability to motivate, empower and enable others.
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
Eastern and Coastal Area Offices, Canterbury
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
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