Main area: Crisis Resolution 7 Home Treatment - Mental Health Services
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work including weekends and nights)
Job ref: 350-MHC6569750-A
Site: Harry Blackman House
Town: St Helens
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 29/11/2024
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.
Job overview
Mid CRHT are currently looking to recruit Band 6 practitioners to join the team.
CRHT operates on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis. CRHT offers to provide intensive home support to services users as an alternative to hospital admission. CRHT work collaboratively with a variety of services to support service users at home.
The post holder will be expected to work on a rotational shift basis in accordance with service demands, including weekends and night shifts.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within the framework of Effective Care Co-ordination (ECC).
The post holder will operate as part of an integrated Home Treatment Service but be expected to be flexible in terms of delivering care within a variety of environments.
The team will work to assess and provide treatment to service users with complex needs. Alternative options to admission will be considered where possible.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.
The post holder will be expected to participate in a 24hr roster system 7 Days a week, on a rotational basis as and when the service demands.
The core roles include: face to face assessment, specialist mental health assessments, supporting and sharing information with the wider police community and acting in an advisory capacity for people in conjunction with mental health law. The role also involves delivering training and education to police colleagues and signposting to appropriate partner agencies.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Formulate, contribute to, and participate in, the development and implementation of assessment and care planning systems in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
2. Manage a case load within the Crisis Resolution /Home Treatment Team.
3. Carry out generic and specialist assessments, including risk and provide therapeutic interventions/home treatments within the most appropriate setting in accordance with the service users and/or carers’ needs.
4. Complete Gatekeeping for all Inpatient admission requests across the Merseyside footprint.
5. Assess whether users can be managed safely within the community promoting quicker recovery.
6. Assess Risks and collaboratively develop safety plans with users/carers.
7. Ensure effective liaison with inpatient units across the Trust to facilitate early discharges or to undertake reviews of those users placed out of area.
8. Act as the Duty Practitioner /2nd Duty, as part of a rotational roster.
9. Fully participate in ECC undertaking a care-coordinator role as appropriate.
10. Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.
11. Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
12. Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.
13. Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multi-disciplinary team.
14. Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.
15. Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision and act as Named Nurse as required.
16. Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.
17. Act as knowledge resource in specialist area of practice to other team members and other agencies as required.
18. Where indicated and following completion of the relevant training the practitioner will act as a non-medical prescriber, at all times working within their sphere of clinical competence.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse or Dip.SW/CQSW, Dip.COT/SROT
* Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. ENB 998 / Mentorship in Practice
* PSI Training
* Approved training in phlebotomy
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of Mental Health assessments
* Demonstrate a good knowledge of Code of Conduct and the nurse’s responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
* Demonstrate knowledge and experience in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to qualified and unqualified staff
* Knowledge of developments in community care and of mental health legislation.
* Knowledge of ECC guidelines
* Evidence of experience of working a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings
* Experience of Crisis Intervention
* Experience of leadership and management
Skills
* Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally
* Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills
* Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team
* Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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