To work as a member of the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team, working within the home treatment function delivering support to patients and their families using evidence based, profession specific and general mental health knowledge providing client centred, recovery orientated principles and practice for individuals, families and carers referred to the Service. You will also work within the Rapid response function undertaking assessments 24/7 received from Urgent Mental Health Helpline as well as undertaking gatekeeping assessments. To work in accordance with Trust and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team Policies and Procedures and the Care Programme Approach. To provide an alternative to inpatient admission treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress.

Main duties of the job

o Demonstrates ability to work as a team member as well as alone making autonomous decisions in a fast-paced environment.

o Supporting Band 7 to manage a case load of service users who have complex acute/crisis needs

o Balancing all aspects of the job role.

o Being flexible and responsive to competing demands

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Working with service users referred to Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service

To screen, and work with all newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crisis providing assessment or short-term interventions until crisis is resolved.

To provide short-term specific psychosocial interventions for those who would benefit from crisis interventions

To ensure documentation is reviewed and updated in line with quality improvement standards

To shift co-ordinate lead the shift, allocate work to the wider MDT and prioritise workloads.

To contribute to the planning and implementation of induction, training and education of students and staff.

To contribute to the delivery of specialist/ professional training packages of in-service training and staff development when necessary.

To fulfil the role of mentor/practice educator, maintaining own update training and ensuring responsibility for regular placement provision and ensuring supervision and written assessment of students whilst on placement.

To assist the band 7 senior practitioner by identifying personal and professional training needs in order to appropriately plan for future training and development.

To provide effective supervision, support, and guidance for support /STR/ peer workers and any work delegated to them.

Responsible for the delivery of individual care plans for a caseload

Expected to implement policies as directed by the trust/directorate for the department, ensuring awareness throughout the department.

Participate in leading service developments.

Person Specification

Training, Qualifications and Registraiton

Essential

• Registration with relevant regulatory body. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

Desirable

• Mentorship or practice educator qualification
• Further training relevant to the role

Experience

Essential

• Experience working in mental health service
• Experience of prioritising casework and allocation /delegation of tasks to others.
• Experience of liaising with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to organisations.
• To be able to work a 24hr shift pattern including day shifts, nights shifts and weekend shifts

Desirable

• Experience working within Crisis Home Treatment Team

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative rameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Care programme approach, Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
• An understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
• An understanding and ability to apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
• Understanding of the impact of mental health crisis on lifestyle and function for clients, family and carers and common pharmacological and psychosocial treatments
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times, especially in complex/challenging situations
• Ability to work autonomously and cooperatively as part of an interprofessional team.

Desirable

• Ability to motivate, empower and enable others.
• Leadership skills

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Priority House

Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9PH

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