Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

1 month ago

Exeter, United Kingdom Devon Partnership NHS Trust Full time

Job Purpose The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health difficulties and their carers. This will include recovery co-ordination (design and co-ordination of treatment packages that are personalised and evaluated in line with payment by results). To provide statutory Adult Social Care, Care Management functions (assessment, care planning and reviewing).

The liaison with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role. The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other members and participating in team and service development, and evaluation. Duties and Responsibilities Communication and Working Relationship Skills Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies. Impart highly complex and sensitive information to : Patients and families/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well coordinated care Primary care teams regarding client care External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g.: voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc.

Service user/carer groups Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies. Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires. Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex to and from individuals and their families/carers, where there may be barriers to understanding. Provide a high standards of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards Participate in and chair clinical meetings, this will include CPA and non-CPA reviews, professional meetings, and clinical risk meetings.

Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring whilst employing negotiating techniques to gain co-operation from highly complex individuals. Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies. Facilitate fair access to social care services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability Analytical and Judgemental Skills Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options. Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and diagnosis which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence based and payment by results.

Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of individuals needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to formulate the most appropriate clinical plan. Planning and Organisational Skills Organise and facilitate complex meetings, these will include: CPA and non-CPA professional and risk meetings. Responsible for managing their own workload to ensure the needs to the individuals who use our services are met taking the wider needs of the team into consideration. Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.

Plan and organise individuals packages of care and ensure that reviews are held within the required time frames, for example Section 117, Funding Panels and CPA. Plan own workload and the workload of junior colleagues to ensure that care is provided in the most high quality and cost efficient manner, prioritise and make adjustments as appropriate. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy Ensure that caseload is well managed and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards and recovery co-ordination (CPA and non-CPA). Understand social factors that impact upon mental health.

Develop and deliver care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation. Ensure that all interventions have clear outcomes and that these are taken into consideration when sourcing the resources to best meet the individuals needs. This will include enabling individuals to take up Direct Payments and offering the person as much choice and control of resources as appropriate. Ensure that all social care packages are reviewed within the relevant timescales and focus on integration within existing community resources where possible.

Deliver services using a recovery and strengths approach where the needs of the individual and their carers are held as centra

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