Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT
To work within the Mental Health Urgent Care Service's Home Treatment Team (HTT) to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as a clinical lead within the team. To work with patients with particularly complex needs. The aim of HTT is to provide patient-centred intensive care and treatment to patients and their families at home as an alternative to hospital admission.
Crisis care is a highly specialist intervention and involves supporting our most vulnerable patients and their families in the least restrictive setting possible, by providing a variety of recovery focused psycho-social interventions that enable the person to regain or maintain independence.
Main duties of the job
1. You will ensure that the care delivered is excellent and in keeping with the most up to date guidelines and best practice.
2. To work with carers/family members as necessary to provide a thorough bio psychosocial assessment of their needs. Carers and significant others will be involved where appropriate in collection of risk information and in the development of a management plan.
3. To take an advisory and supervisory role in partnership with the clinical team in managing complex cases.
4. To lead and present complex, sensitive, and challenging clinical and professional communication processes that may impact on service users, carers, staff, the team, the organisation, partner agencies and members of the public, where there are barriers to understanding.
5. Safeguarding the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participating in relevant training.
6. To utilise problem solving and decision-making skills to support safe discharge planning.
7. The post holder will regularly deal with difficult and distressed patients and carers, conveying complex, difficult and unwelcome information relating to both staff and clinical issues. This may include occasional exposure to verbal and physical aggression.
8. You will provide a modelling role to all staff; ensuring standards of care are met.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse.
* Demonstrable experience and clinical expertise in managing individuals who are acutely unwell.
* Clinical supervisory experience and willingness to provide clinical supervision.
* Demonstrable evidence of leading on development of care packages to meet holistic needs.
* Experience of working across organisational boundaries and being able to develop and maintain multi-professional/agency partnerships.
* Evidence of advanced practice clinical assessment and treatment skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on recovery.
* Experience and ability to engage and integrate service users and carers in risk management and care planning.
* Relevant experience within Crisis Home Treatment Service.
* Delivering crisis skills/ treatment interventions to individuals who would otherwise need hospital admission within the home first model.
* Experience of working as a clinical lead within an adult setting.
* Experience of leading reflective learning sessions with staff team.
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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