The Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team has an exciting opportunity for a mental health practitioner to join the North Mersey team. The Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team operates on a 24/7 basis providing support for service users and families across Liverpool and Sefton area.
CRHT supports people through a short term mental health crisis by providing intensive treatment and support in their home environment as an alternative to inpatient care. The team can also help facilitate early discharge from hospital to provide home treatment. The team consists of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social workers, Mental health practitioners, occupational therapists, and support workers.
The post holder will be expected to work across weekdays, weekends, and nights in accordance with the service need.
Key Responsibilities:
1. To provide high quality, evidence-based care within our Mental Health Care Division for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services.
2. To work in a socially inclusive way and in line with the recovery model.
3. To function as named nurse/care coordinator to service users undertaking assessment, planning, evaluation, and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.
4. To participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
5. To provide advice, expertise, and leadership within the team.
6. To supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high-risk needs.
7. To work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based on information received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi-disciplinary team.
8. To be qualified to act as a mentor for students.
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 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. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alice Broadbent Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: alice.broadbent@merseycare.nhs.uk
Rhona Prescott
Rhona.Prescott@merseycare.nhs.uk
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