Lead Mental Health Practitioner Rapid Response

4 weeks ago

Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

We have an exciting new role and opportunity to shape the rapidly changing Rapid Response service working very closely with the Emergency services.

KMPT has recently introduced a Rapid Response service countywide to offer face-to-face assessment to people suffering a mental health crisis to reach 95% of people referred within 4 HRS. As part of an expansion to incorporate a Blue Light Enhanced service, partners in the ambulance service will be able to access a see-and-treat response from the Rapid Response as soon as possible.

We have other vacancies in East Kent and North Kent

Recruiting to 3 posts in West, North and East Kent

Using specialist Mental Health knowledge and skills to carry out comprehensive Biopsychosocial assessments in a timely manner to service users suffering with a mental health crisis.

Be responsible for ensuring the team achieve performance targets such as response times for 1hr and 4hr face to face assessments.

Facilitate the development and use of care pathways by the multidisciplinary team(MDT)

Be part of the senior team working collaboratively with the Home treatment team and Liaison Psychiatry service.

Communicate effectively with other members of the team and also external partners. Hold regular interface meetings with SECAM, Police, Urgent Metal Health Crisis Line ,Liaison Psychiatry, Home treatment team and Community Mental Health teams.

Ensure that information of a sensitive and contentious content is handled with professionalism and communicated appropriately to clearly identified persons

Respond to emergency situation s in a clear and supportive manner showing sensitivity and direction at all times

Feed into the supervision process when necessary to highlight areas of poor practice and support staff to improve areas of concerns

Provide effective management supervision to the other members of the team

Participate in the management and investigation of complaints

Working closely with the Home Treatment Operational manager to ensure the Rapid Response team is covered.

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 3,700 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 day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

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

Please refer to the attached Job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

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