Liverpool CRHT Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
Main area: Crisis Resolution Home Treatment
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work including weekends and nights)
Job ref: 350-MHC6354451-C
Site: Broadoak Unit
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/12/2024 23:59
Interview date: 09/12/2024
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Job overview
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.
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 and 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 post holder will participate in a 24hr roster system, 7 days a week, on a rotational basis as service demands require.
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, 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.
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 assessments, 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, assessing whether users can be managed safely within the community.
5. Collaboratively develop safety plans with users/carers.
6. Ensure effective liaison with inpatient units across the Trust to facilitate early discharges or to undertake reviews of those users placed out of area.
7. Act as the Duty Practitioner/2nd Duty as part of a rotational roster.
8. Fully participate in ECC undertaking a care-coordinator role as appropriate.
9. Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.
10. Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
11. 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.
12. Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multi-disciplinary team.
13. Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.
14. 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.
15. Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.
16. Act as a knowledge resource in specialist areas of practice to other team members and other agencies as required.
17. 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
VALUES
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
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
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of mental health assessments
* Demonstrate a good knowledge of the 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 both qualified and unqualified staff
* Knowledge of developments in community care and mental health legislation
* Knowledge of ECC guidelines
* Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in various healthcare 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 and 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 to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enroll for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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