Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner Posts in Barrow HTT.
Barrow Home Treatment Team is looking to welcome Mental Health Practitioners.
Essential Qualifications required:
* Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Social Worker / Occupational Therapist
The Home Treatment team works in the community with people in acute mental health distress, supporting them in their own homes to avoid hospital admission and to facilitate early discharge from hospital.
The team is looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health practitioners. The successful applicant will need to demonstrate excellent clinical skills and a good working knowledge of mental health and community services.
Excellent communication skills are essential, along with the ability to manage change and support colleagues in learning and development.
You will need to be proactive, innovative, and able to provide quality care with service users and carers at the heart of everything you do. In return, we will offer excellent supervision, training, support, and an environment for you to develop and enhance your current skills.
The Barrow HTT operates as a 24-hour service with a shift pattern of long days, including nights, although we are happy to discuss flexible working patterns.
Main Duties of the Job
You will provide a comprehensive assessment and triage service, where necessary signposting or facilitating onward referrals to a mental health pathway. Referrals will include GPs, police, acute hospital colleagues, self-referrals, and referrals from carers. Service users will be triaged collaboratively, and decisions will be made in consultation with the referrer using a clinical tool for response time requirements.
This comprehensive, collaborative triage system will lead to thorough assessments and clear onward facilitation of service users to the most appropriate care following assessment.
The post holder will provide evidence-based mental health assessments and/or signposting to alternative service provision for individuals requiring a specialist urgent mental health assessment. Follow-up appointments may be offered within the agreed timescale for intervention as part of the ongoing assessment process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Social Worker / Occupational Therapist
Knowledge
* Able to understand the difference between crisis planning and contingency planning and to formulate explicit planning in these areas.
* Knowledge, understanding, and experience of care pathways for psychosis and non-psychosis and relevant interventions.
* Effective communication with service users, carers, and members of the multidisciplinary teams. Strong customer service and negotiation skills.
Skills
* Motivational skills.
* Assertiveness skills in relation to bed management.
* Demonstrate the ability to work sensitively in a non-judgmental way with service users who are in crisis.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be necessary to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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