One of the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions is to improve the provision of crisis assessment and brief response within the Emergency Department (ED) and in community settings. Offering Children and Young People (CYP) assessment, alongside Intensive Home Treatment services for those who might otherwise require inpatient care.
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust are developing a consistent home treatment provision, across Herefordshire. This team operates 7 days a week between the hours of 8am and 8pm. The teams will offer an Intensive Home Treatment service aimed at CYP who might otherwise require inpatient care, or intensive support that exceeds the normal capability of a generic children and young people's mental health community team.
Main duties of the job
The role will be a little unpredictable, as you can be called at any time during a working day to support in a crisis. We will complete comprehensive risk assessments for every CYP; these can be completed independently although will often discuss patients that are more complex as a Multi-disciplinary team. The team works hard to provide a fully integrated service for our CYP, so it is not just about making sure their needs are catered for while they are in crisis, but also within the wider system. We talk to families and carers, GPs, community mental health teams, social care teams and voluntary organisations, and ensure the most appropriate follow up support is in place, be this through an intensive home treatment package from the team, or Core CAMHS or through the voluntary sector.
Research indicates that a more timely response to treating YP regarding their mental health leads to them being less likely to require long term mental health support, so this is an amazing opportunity to support the YP and their families within Herefordshire.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive, offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
What we offer
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
* Flexible and agile working opportunities
* Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
* Wide range of supportive staff networks
* Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit our website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
* Operate as part of a multidisciplinary team providing Crisis Intervention and Intensive Home Treatment to CYP countywide.
* Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to CYP.
* Proactively engage in formal and informal education of Acute Trust staff and other partnership agencies, families and children and young people.
* Actively and creatively engage CYP and carers encouraging them to make appropriate use of the mental health, social care and voluntary services available as part of a process of recovery and crisis management.
* Undertake full psychosocial assessments with those in need of such. Ensuring thorough, precise and timely documentation and dissemination of information in line with Trust policy and procedure.
* Undertake a supervisory role to junior staff in line with trust policy and procedure.
* Undertake acute risk assessment and safety planning for extremely vulnerable client groups during times of crisis.
* Deliver High quality, evidence based care to a defined team caseload.
* Proactively support the prevention of YP requiring long-term mental health hospital beds, also encouraging and engaging in early discharge from same, should the need had been identified.
Our commitment is to ensure you have appropriate Continued professional development and quality supervision and Appraisal to ensure you are able to reach your full potential. We welcome new ideas and training opportunities, should they be in line with your job role and will help to encourage, empower and support our CYP and you, as a member of the team to ensure job satisfaction and fulfilment.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Extensive post registration experience in mental health care including mental health assessment and risk assessment
* Use of therapeutic interventions within mental health settings i.e. 1:1, counselling, family therapy and group work
* Delivering teaching / training
* Providing consultation
Desirable
* Experience of working in a CYP service or Crisis & Home Treatment service
* Formulating and communicating a clinical presentation to an MDT
Qualifications
Essential
* Professional clinical qualification RMN / OT / Social Worker etc.
* Evidence of post registered clinical qualifications/training or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of training to a minimum of post graduate diploma level
* Current registration with relevant professional body
* I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Desirable
* Evidence of on-going continuing professional development
* Evidence of providing a supervisor role
Skills & Abilities
Essential
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats.
* Computer literacy.
* Ability to travel to patients at the needs of the service across a wide geographical area in a timely manner.
Employer details
Employer name
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Address
Benet Building
Ruckhall Lane, Belmont
Hereford
HR2 9RP
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