HTT Senior Mental Health Practitioner Job Vacancy in South Tyneside, England, UK

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To be accountable for the adults service users of working age. To assess health and social care needs (including accommodation, finances, support in accessing education, training or employment) and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.
2. To prioritise time and workload, in a flexibly manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
3. To undertake risk assessments, according to Trust policy.
4. To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the CPA framework.
5. To engage with service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting, in normal community environments.
6. To help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion and being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability.
7. To offer a range of evidence based psycho-social interventions and pro-active risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery.
8. To ensure CNWL Child Protection Guidelines and procedures are fully understood by self and others. To ensure the safety needs of children are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child is felt to be at risk or in need.
9. To monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects.
10. To provide access to, and ongoing, psycho-education and health promotion regarding illness, disability and health to service users and families.
11. To Provide assessment screening of new referrals and to present recommendations for further care / treatment to the MDT. To offer telephone support for callers seeking advice from the HTT/RR and direct them to the most appropriate service to meet their needs.
12. To provide interventions and to work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid problems with substance use/misuse.
13. To engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning, provide, and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.
14. To deliver a flexible and responsive service through working practices that are dictated by service user/carer need and contribute to the provision of service continuity including outside normal working hours when necessary.
15. If admission to hospital becomes necessary, to provide regular, formal, joint Inpatient review to ensure the service user is transferred/discharged to the lowest stigma/least restrictive environment as soon as clinically possible.
16. To maintain standards of professional conduct at all times and observe the legal requirements of the MHA (1983), its Code of Practice, The Children Act (1989) and other relevant legislation and guidance.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Current Professional Qualification in mental health nursing/Occupational Therapy/Social Work./ psychotherapy .
• Registration must be live with professional body
• Evidence of post registration training and CPD

Desirable

• ENB 812/998/SLICE
• Training in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn
• Family Therapy/Work training
• Other relevant training, eg substance misuse

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in multidisciplinary mental health team with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems
• Significant post-registration experience

Desirable

• Work with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems who are homeless/rootless
• Work with people experiencing mental health crisis.
• Supervision of students and junior staff
• Audit and research.
• Teaching
• Working with people who use substances

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations / IT skills.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
• Able to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families
• Skills in risk assessment and management.
• Can demonstrate understanding of psychosis and its impact on service users and carers.
• Knowledge of current legislation and guidance applicable to this client group.
• Can demonstrate understanding of the needs of diverse groups, e.g. residents of inner city; black and minority ethnic groups, and skills in engaging with them.
• Skills in psychosocial interventions.
• Able to build constructive relationships with clients and carers using warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.

Desirable

• Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
• Basic counselling and group work skills.
• Dual diagnosis/substance misuse

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).