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We are looking for caring, compassionate, energetic and motivated individuals who are passionate about improving the mental health of our service users. This is a pivotal role with the acute services pathway as our team is focused on providing evidenced based interventions with the aim to prevent and reduce difficulties experienced by service users and carers during mental health crisis. The team operates over a 24/7 period providing an All Age Crisis telephone service, Crisis Assessment Service, Health Based Place of Safety and Intensive Home Treatment pathway.
Job Responsibility:
Provide rapid assessment and brief evidence based clinical interventions
Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients within the Intensive Home Based Treatment Pathway
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
Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures
Act as the patients and relatives advocate
Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change
Champion patients' rights, including: dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect
When undertaking all of the above ensure good documentation is provided and entered within the appropriate systems of record sharing
Provide the clinical leadership of more junior members of the team, prioritising workload and utilising resources appropriately to ensure that service user needs are met
Requirements:
Current professional registration with an approved professional body
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education (must be achieved within agreed timescale)
18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
Clinical Supervisor
Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent (must be achieved within agreed timescale)
Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Provide leadership, monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team
Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional responsibilities
Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
Write reports
Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
Use approved breakaway techniques
Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting
Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate
Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement
Working in a multi-disciplinary team
Quality improvement activities
Nice to have:
Leadership or management qualification
Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Competency in venepuncture
Leadership or management experience
What we offer:
Generous pay, pensions and leave
Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options (e.g., part-time working and job sharing)