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Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older adults (CRHTTOP) is a well-established, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team based in Peterborough. The team offer intensive support and treatment at home, and in care homes, for older adults with mental health challenges, including the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. The service we offer includes:
- Crisis intervention, intensive treatment, support, risk assessment and management to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating earlier discharge from mental health hospital beds.
- Dementia Intensive Support which offers a practical and a psycho-educational approach to care within patients' homes and care homes – The aim is to avoid admission to hospital from carer burnout and to prevent care placement breakdown.
- We provide time-limited interventions and patients will be referred for longer term monitoring, support, and treatment if appropriate within Older People’s Mental Health Community Teams.
We are strong, passionate, and a fun-loving team with a wealth of clinical experience and knowledge and are looking for a person to join us who will have the following attributes:
- A similar passion for working with older people.
- A desire to develop and enhance existing skills and knowledge.
- Drive and motivation whilst working under pressure in very busy team.
- Experience in carrying out Clinical assessment including risk assessments.
- A strong team-player with a great sense of humour!
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
- The post holder will work within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older people to provide a mental health service seven days a week, within a community setting, by providing a psychosocial assessment to those who present with a range of mental health problems. - To work in partnership with service users and carers to provide treatment within the least restrictive environment.
- To take on the role of care coordinator for clients and provide leadership support to others, to ensure that full assessment of individual care needs are undertaken, that care is planned, implemented and reviewed on a regular basis.
- To provide assessment to those at risk of being admitted to hospital and provide care, support and treatment within a community setting or facilitate admission to hospital and promote rapid discharge.
- To provide clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis.
- To act as a role model and promote effective teamwork across the service to meet individual client needs.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- Screen referrals 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 according 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.
- Act as the patients and relatives’ advocate. Champion patients’ rights, including dignity, equality, diversity, choice, and respect.
- Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss, and change.
Manyleb y person
Education / Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Mental Health Nurse, Social Work, Occupational Therapy Qualification or Psychologist.
- Current NMC/HCPC/Social work Registration.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Clinical supervision qualification.
- Post Graduate level education relating to specialism.
- Approved Mental Health Practitioner
- Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.
Exerience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of working in Crisis Environment.
- Working with people presenting with complex mental health needs.
- Multi-agency working/working across service interfaces. Working within a multicultural framework.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff.
- Experience relating to specialism
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Assessing, formulating, and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress
- Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning.
- Clear evidence of effective & safe decision making and problem solving
Meini prawf dymunol
- Evidence of ability to develop and lead new initiatives within the clinical care environment.
- Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis.
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Evidenced based clinical interventions relevant to the service.
- Models of care and treatment relevant to working with older people.
- 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
Meini prawf dymunol
- SystmOne
Physical
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to travel promptly across a large geographical area.
- Physically able to undertake a demanding role safely, as required.
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Norma Moyo
- Teitl y swydd
- Team Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
Rhestr swyddi gyda Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust yn Proffesiynau perthynol i iechyd neu bob sector