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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
* Screen referral to the service and prioritise referrals effectively and safely.
* Provide holistic psychosocial assessment, and subsequent planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
* Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
* Undertake risk management; practising safely and accordingly to individual service user needs.
* Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
* Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients.
* Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective, and integrated manner.
* Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers, and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Mental Health Nurse, Social Work or Occupational Therapy Qualification.
* Current NMC/HCPC/Social work Registration.
Desirable criteria
* Approved Mental Health Practitioner Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Mental health care/treatment relevant to service.
* Working with people presenting with complex mental health needs.
* Experience of working as part of a team.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of developing service user and carer involvement.
* Experience relating to specialism.
* Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
* Assessing, formulating, and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress.
* Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning.
* Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable criteria
* Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis.
* Evidence of ability to develop and lead new initiatives within the clinical care environment.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
* Sound knowledge of Mental Health Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty, Safeguarding Act, Children's Act, Equality Act 2010, Health and Safety Act and the Data Protection Act.
* Models of care and treatment relevant to working with older people.
* Evidenced based clinical interventions relevant to the service.
Desirable criteria
* SystmOne.
* Relevant specialist clinical courses/training.
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
* Ability to travel promptly across a large geographical area.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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