The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team provides support and intervention to adults with severe and enduring complex mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions. Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of patients, their families, and significant others.
The role involves working as a Deputy Team Leader in a well-established team. This includes acting as a keyworker and supporting a caseload of clients with varying mental health diagnoses and needs, as well as assisting the Team Manager in ensuring that leadership within the multidisciplinary team provides effective assessment, formulation, planning, and monitoring of care given to service users while actively promoting teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence, and compassion within the community team in accordance with the Trust values and NMC code of conduct, HPC code.
As a keyworker, you will work closely with people in their own homes or in the community to help them recover from their illness and improve their general quality of life. This role includes assessing patients, providing care/support, developing risk assessments, collaborative care planning, medication management, physical health monitoring, and managing patient documents. Alongside becoming an advocate for the people in your care, you will support and signpost them so they can focus on their recovery and help them live the life they would like to live.
To actively promote teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence, and compassion within the community team in accordance with the Trust values and NMC code of conduct, HPC code.
To assist the Team Manager in ensuring that leadership within the multidisciplinary team provides effective assessment, formulation, planning, and monitoring of care given to service users.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria, and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working. We believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rachael Murphy Job title: Community Mental Health Nurse Email address: rachael.murphy@lscft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01695 684130
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