Home Treatment and Rapid Response Community Psychiatric Nurse (Band 6) - East Kent Directorate - Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust – Canterbury, Kent
To work as a member of the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team, delivering support to patients and their families using evidence-based, profession-specific, and general mental health knowledge, providing client-centred, recovery-oriented principles and practice for individuals, families, and carers referred to the Service. You will also work within the Rapid Response function undertaking assessments 24/7 received from the Urgent Mental Health Helpline, as well as undertaking gatekeeping assessments. This role involves working in accordance with Trust and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team Policies and Procedures and the Care Programme Approach, providing an alternative to inpatient admission by treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Work collaboratively with MDT members to contribute to a flexible and effective interdisciplinary team approach to clinical care.
2. Communicate face-to-face with clients daily, some of whom display challenging behaviour.
3. Effectively establish a therapeutic relationship with service users and their relatives/carers.
4. Assess capacity and obtain informed consent from service users, working within a legal framework with clients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
5. Undertake, record, review, and work within individual risk assessment and management plans in line with service and Trust policy.
6. Provide mental health assessments of clients with acute mental health needs, clearly assessing and managing risks.
7. Lead joint reviews for patients with complex needs to plan transfer of care.
8. Ensure service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
9. Adapt practice to meet individual service users’ circumstances, including regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
10. Work collaboratively with service users, staff, and relatives to identify goals and determine and deliver an appropriate intervention plan that maximises engagement and performance while balancing risk and promoting choice and independence.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
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