Home Treatment and Rapid Response Community Psychiatric Nurse
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 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. The position requires 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. Work collaboratively with MDT members to contribute to an effective interdisciplinary team approach to clinical care.
2. Communicate face-to-face with clients daily, some of whom may display challenging behavior.
3. Establish a therapeutic relationship with service users and their relatives/carers.
4. Assess capacity and obtain informed consent from service users, working within a legal framework with clients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
5. Undertake, record, review, and work within individual risk assessment and management plans in line with service and Trust policy.
6. Provide mental health assessments of clients with acute mental health needs, clearly assessing and managing risks.
7. Lead joint reviews for patients with complex needs to plan transfer of care.
8. Ensure service users are involved in the planning and prioritization of their care plans wherever possible.
9. Adapt practice to meet individual service users' circumstances, including cultural and linguistic differences.
10. Work collaboratively with service users, staff, and relatives to identify goals and deliver an appropriate intervention plan that maximizes engagement and performance while 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 and to serve 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, and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are 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
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
* Registration with relevant regulatory body (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).
* 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, families, 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.
* Full driver's license and ability to drive to different sites in a timely manner.
* 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.
Address
Eastern and Coastal Area Offices, Canterbury
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