Mental Health Practitioner

2 days ago

Frome, United Kingdom Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Calling all Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners, come and work for us.

Enjoy working in Somerset with rolling countryside and beautiful scenery.

Great working relationships with Voluntary sector, the Primary Care Networks and Neighbourhood teams

Great opportunities to develop whilst you work such as Physical Assessment and Clinical reasoning and Non-Medical Prescribing

Somerset Foundation Trust winners of the HSJ Mental health Trust of the Year 2021

Acting as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence based interventions using a collaborative, recovery approach and will be skilled at positive risk management. The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other team members, as agreed with the Team Manager, and participate in team and service development and evaluation.

The post holder will provide a high standard of care and treatment for patients and work with other members of the team and other agencies to best meet the patients’ health and social needs.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS
- Supervisor/Line Manager
- Service Users/Patients
- Carers
- Intensive Dementia Support Service Staff
- Medical staff
- AHP Colleagues
- Inpatient Staff
- CMHT Staff
- Crisis Staff
- Administrative Staff
- Mendip Neighbourhood Teams
- Voluntary and Community Service
- Adult Social Care

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone’s throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone
- To provide day to day supervision and support to junior staff as necessary.
- To undertake the duty worker role.
- To plan and allocate visits to patients taking into consideration the safety of staff and patients and also the skill level required to provide the intervention.
- Responsible for the management of staff sickness including assessing the immediate impact of this sickness on staffing levels, rescheduling visits, and providing return to work interviews on return to work.
- To provide management supervision to other Registered Professionals, PDRs and ensure training is arranged an undertaken or to delegate to appropriate staff.
- To provide managerial and clinical supervision to other professional colleagues.
- To undertake audits of care plans of registered staff and provide guidance and feedback to the individual.
- To ensure the supervision of any trainees attached to the team is undertaken, including acting as a ‘mentor’ as necessary. (This includes trainee Assistant Practitioners, students and Nursing Associates).
- To ensure induction and in-service training of staff is undertaken.
- To work to a flexible rota based on annualized hours and collaboration with colleagues to ensure all shifts are covered.
- To escalate any concerns as appropriate to your line manager and keep line manager informed of any events or issues.
- To contribute to and be responsible for implementing any service changes as guided by national guidance.
- To provide good lines of communication within the team and external to the team for patients, carers, staff and other agencies.
- To be responsible for responding and addressing areas of concern/PALs queries brought to your attention by staff, patients or carers and keep line manager informed of any such issues
- To assist in the process of staff recruitment as required.
- To be actively involved in promoting the service to other professionals and community colleagues.
- To deputise for the Older Persons’ Mental Health Team Manager as required.
- To deputise for the Older Persons’ Mental Health Team Manager at Trust wide/ Divisional meetings

Information Resources & Administrative Duties
- To ensure high standards of record/case note recording in line with the Policy for Integrated Records.
- To recognise the importance of working as a team and sharing of information about Service Users under the care of the team.
- To observe all legal and statutory requirements with regard to the patient and their relatives with particular regard to confidentiality.
- To develop good relationships and working arrangements with other professional staff and agencies, to ensure the smooth delivery of care for patients.

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