In a wide range of situations and locations, undertake the full range of activities required to deliver comprehensive mental health assessments in emergencies for service users who may be distressed and in crisis. This will include:
1. The use of standardised assessment tools i.e. Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV.
2. Recovery Star.
3. History, strengths, and aspirations.
4. Mental state.
5. Impact of culture and diversity.
6. Functional needs.
7. The needs of family and carer.
8. Evaluation of risk.
9. Physical health.
10. Complicating factors.
11. Identifying and ensuring specialist involvement where required.
12. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
13. Social Care.
14. Safeguarding and public protection.
15. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.
Be responsible for developing, delivering, and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence-based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required. Plan, deliver, and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans, including for service users who may be on other caseloads.
This might include:
1. Individual or group therapeutic intervention.
2. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions.
3. Psychosocial interventions.
4. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.
5. Medication management.
6. Interventions under the Mental Health Act.
Deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carer's ability to support the service user and enable them in their relationship with the service user. Develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within the Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector, and with nominated carers/advocates.
In collaboration with service users and carers, be responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements, etc., involving other agencies such as primary care where appropriate. Personally build and lead others to build hope-inspiring relationships with service users, acknowledging the personal journey of each person, and focusing on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.
Be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling. Be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning, development, and review of protection plans. Coordinate and undertake protective interventions which may be required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.
Personally, and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and successes, and use small steps to move towards the person's goal.
Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required. Maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards. Report and record within agreed timeframes all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
Participate in management, caseload, and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy. Provide mentoring/training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care.
Specifically, this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students, participating in their learning objectives and assessments. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others by making use of and providing effective feedback, supervision, coaching, and appraisal.
The ASYE, or Assessed and Supported Year in Employment, is a programme of development for all newly qualified social workers (NQSWs), overseen and moderated by Skills for Care. Each NQSW, during their first year in employment, is required to produce a portfolio of evidence demonstrating how they have met 9 professional capabilities. They are required to undertake regular and supported critically reflective supervision with a dedicated assessor, undertake 3 direct observations of their practice, and produce 2 pieces of critical reflection, as well as gathering evidence from professionals and service users.
In acknowledgement of the significant amount of work required of the programme, we have sought and gained agreement from the trust that all newly qualified social workers should initially be appointed at a Band 5 level. We have discussed with HR, and all job advertisements and job descriptions for which social workers are eligible to apply will now include the ASYE as an essential criterion for NQSWs and inform them that progression to Band 6 is dependent on the successful completion of the ASYE. This does not bar NQSWs from applying for Band 6 opportunities, but recruiting managers must be mindful that, unless exceptional circumstances can be applied, all NQSWs will start at Band 5.
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