Job overview
We have 2 posts available, 1 full time post and 1 part time post (30 hours per week).
We are delighted to offer an exciting and highly rewarding opportunity to join our new Crisis Care/136 Suite located within Walton House on St Georges Hospital site in Stafford and working across our other Urgent and Emergency Care Mental Health Services, supporting the assessment and delivery of meaningful interventions to service users accessing our Urgent Care Mental Health Services in the Staffordshire Locality.
As a Registered Mental Health professional, you will be part of a team providing specialist adult mental health support. You will play a crucial and pivotal role in assessing the Mental Health needs of individuals who are referred to the service that are experiencing a Mental Health Crisis and require an urgent assessment of their needs. The role will be pivotal in supporting the delivery of safe and effective treatment and interventions for those individuals in line with a needs-led plan of care.
You will be responsible for supporting a culture of “wrapping the service around the person” and will need to work flexibly to ensure that pathways work together as a whole service, to meet the person’s needs.
As an integral member of the Crisis Care/136 Suite team, you will be expected to work flexibly to cover across our Urgent care services that operate 24/7, which may on occasions fall outside the core working hours of 8-6, 7 days a week. Due to the nature of this role, you will require the ability to adequately travel across a large geographical area when required.
Main duties of the job
As this role is a rotational post, you will be expected to deliver a wide range of skills and utilise your extensive knowledge within all aspects of the 3 services to deliver effective and efficient care.
You will be responsible for undertaking clinical assessments, in accordance with the clinical pathway, to establish the person’s needs, goals, risks, and strengths to generate a formulation-based care plan agreed with all involved.
As part of this role, you will be expected to:
1. Deliver therapeutic interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health-related difficulties.
2. Provide indirect care through the functions of educator and advice giver to relatives, carers, and other organisations where appropriate.
3. Participate in the delivery of the agreed aims and objectives of the service and identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
4. Provide care in line with NICE Guidance, COT Recovering Ordinary Lives Mental Health Strategy, and COT Care Cluster guidance including other relevant local and national documentation.
5. Supply, administer and monitor medications, complying with relevant Trust Procedures (for example, Patient Group Directions and Non-Medical Prescribing) and NMC Guidance.
6. Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance including pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
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