Senior Mental Health Practitioner Acute Crisis Pathway
37.5 hours per week. We are seeking to recruit a B6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner working mostly overnight with the acute care pathway within Livewell Southwest.
You will be joining established teams, working across 3 services to help ensure people experiencing a mental health crisis receive an assessment of their needs in a timely way.
Working within A2ED, First Response Service, and Liaison Psychiatry.
A2ED offers professional assessments to people who urgently require face-to-face contact with a Mental Health worker who might otherwise have had to attend the Derriford Emergency department. The aim of A2ED is to reduce waiting times to benefit both patients, their families, and emergency services.
First Response Service is a 24/7 crisis and assessment service providing ageless advice, support, and signposting for people experiencing mental health difficulties within Plymouth. The service is mostly via telephone contact; however, some face-to-face crisis assessments may be required if indicated.
Liaison Psychiatry is an urgent and emergency mental health service based within Derriford Hospital. A specialist service providing Mental Health Care in a physical health setting, supporting clinicians within the hospital, enabling wards and emergency departments to assess and manage mental health problems in patients being cared for within the hospital.
We anticipate 80% of shifts to be outside of "normal working hours".
Main duties of the job
You will act as shift lead on a rota basis, coordinating service delivery, prioritising workload, and providing clinical advice to junior staff.
You will also be able to offer consultation to other services and contribute to a multi-agency forum. You will contribute to the training and supervision of others.
You will participate in, and chair, Risk Management and Professionals meetings as required.
You will have access to support and supervision from an experienced multi-disciplinary team.
You will contribute to the development of training programmes for the staff team and the local induction programme to include mentoring students.
You will lead on investigations for complaints, complex cases, and internal reviews with management support where required.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible, and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
* Protected CPD time for registered staff
* Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
* Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
* A Robust Preceptorship
* A bespoke induction programme
* Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job responsibilities
Mental Health Practitioners provide brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation, decision-making, and short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis.
Working within the community, Livewell, and hospital sites - Mental Health Practitioners provide face-to-face assessments working closely with other mental health services and agencies; such as the police, ambulance, and local authority.
The role will involve working within primary care settings, community settings, and other health service sites as required. This could include the Joint Response Unit vehicle working alongside our Police colleagues. The working environment includes exposure to high levels of distress in others who may be experiencing a mental health crisis.
The role involves working alongside multi-agency colleagues (i.e. Police, Paramedics) during the evenings providing acute assessment and care and support to people experiencing mental health crisis in the community. You may be expected to work alone.
Assertiveness, experience with patient advocacy, and understanding of physical health conditions are essential.
The nature of the working environment requires regular and frequent travel from base to and between the above-mentioned settings.
As a Livewell service, you will be expected to be flexible in your role to work across other sites and services where there is service demand or a lack of staffing capacity to meet those demands.
You will be provided with Line Management and supervision within the role and expected to be responsible for your continued professional development.
Person Specification
Specific Skills
* Assessing, formulating, and working with people presenting in heightened states of distress.
* Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the organisation.
* Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning.
* Able to meet the service needs for mobility across the geographical area covered.
* Able to demonstrate commitment to high-quality care and service provision.
* Understanding how a person's physical health can affect their mental state.
* Specialist knowledge of mental disorders and their impact on physical health.
* Understanding of National guidelines and initiatives related to the provision of mental health services in an acute general hospital.
* Understanding of services and their role in the provision of mental health care in the community.
* General understanding of Continuing Healthcare and the assessment process for this.
* Sound working knowledge of Mental Health Act (1983), Mental Capacity Act, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (2005).
* Protection of Vulnerable Adults Policies and Procedures.
* Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis.
* Cognitive Behaviour Therapy skills.
* Solution-focused therapy skills.
* Physical healthcare skills.
* Motivational interviewing skills.
Experience
* Mental health care/treatment relevant to service
* Working with people presenting in mental health crisis
* Multi-agency working/working across service interfaces
* Working within a multicultural framework.
* Suitable Candidates will show a clear willingness to develop skills in the areas of both functional mental health problems and older people's/complex care mental health needs
* Teaching, training, and/or supervision of clinical staff
* Previous experience of working in a community mental health setting.
* Evidence of developing and contributing to service development.
* Experience of change in health care.
Qualifications
* Degree in Healthcare in relevant area supplemented by a post-graduate qualification or specialist training with relevant experience.
* Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist)
* Professional Registration (e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England)
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Mentorship qualification or equivalent experience.
* Medical/non-medical prescribing
* Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience
Knowledge
* Evidenced-based clinical interventions relevant to the service
* Relevant specialist clinical courses/training
* Models of care and treatment relevant to working with people in mental health crisis
* Sound knowledge of relevant legislative frameworks (i.e. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Human Rights Act)
* SystmOne
* Eclipse
* Experience of working in both acute mental health and in complex care and dementia care
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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