Liverpool CRHT are currently looking to recruit a Band 6 practitioner to join the team.
CRHT operates on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis, providing intensive home support to service users as an alternative to hospital admission. CRHT works 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.
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 delivering care within various environments.
The team will assess and provide treatment to service users with complex needs, considering alternative options to admission where possible.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude that respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.
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.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Formulating, contributing to, and participating in the development and implementation of assessment and care planning systems in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
2. Managing a caseload within the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team.
3. Carrying out generic and specialist assessments, including risk, and providing therapeutic interventions/home treatments based on service users’ and/or carers’ needs.
4. Completing gatekeeping for all inpatient admission requests across the Merseyside footprint.
5. Assessing risks and collaboratively developing safety plans with users/carers.
6. Ensuring effective liaison with inpatient units across the Trust to facilitate early discharges or to undertake reviews of those users placed out of area.
7. Acting as the Duty Practitioner/2nd Duty as part of a rotational roster.
8. Fully participating in ECC undertaking a care-coordinator role as appropriate.
9. Assisting in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.
10. Ensuring record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
11. Ensuring the safe management of medicines and adhering to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.
12. Working in a professional and collaborative manner with the multi-disciplinary team.
13. Participating and promoting positive intra-agency working.
14. Participating and assisting in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.
15. Acting as a knowledge resource in the specialist area of practice to other team members and other agencies as required.
16. Where indicated and following completion of the relevant training, acting as a non-medical prescriber, working within their sphere of clinical competence.
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