Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 practitioners have a crucial role in assessing mental health crises in children and young people referred to the service and supporting the delivery of safe and effective home treatment for an identified group in accordance with that person's wellbeing and recovery action plan. The main purpose of the role is to provide mental health assessment, risk assessment, and treatment, with the primary focus on the high-quality assessment and treatment of patients presenting with a mental health issue within a physical healthcare setting, which may have physical health conditions impacting their mental health.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Provide specialist assessment and care planning in conjunction with service users and carers, evaluation of individual treatment plans, and discharge planning.
2. Contribute to the delivery of home treatment through nursing care to an identified community client group and within a multi-disciplinary team.
3. Support and facilitate early discharge from hospital.
4. Coordinate the workload of the team as required.
5. Actively participate in the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of service user care focusing on ensuring that service users are supported to remain in their own homes wherever hospitalisation can be safely and appropriately avoided.
6. Be responsible for an agreed caseload determined by the operational lead and reviewed under clinical supervision.
7. Triage and assess referrals received by the service in liaison with multi-disciplinary colleagues. Formulate and action appropriate responses based on need, risk, and urgency. Inform referrers/other professionals and responsible adults as necessary on decisions, plans, policy, and best practice. Record this on Trust systems (RIO and Safeguard).
About Us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression.
* Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
* Options for flexible working.
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
* Extensive health and wellbeing support and resources.
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time traveling between patients.
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI, and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
* Free car parking at all trust sites.
* Free flu vaccinations every year.
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Job Responsibilities
Assessing a mental health crisis and delivering safe and effective home treatment for young people in accordance with their care plan and risk assessment. Assessing young people who present to our local acute trust, facilitating a holistic assessment along with a robust safe discharging plan and risk management.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RNM
* OT
* Social Worker
Experience
* Mental health community experience.
* Mental health ward-based experience.
* Child and adolescent mental health experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Depending on experience.
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