Mental Health Act Compliance Officer
6 months ago
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us
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JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
YOUR APPLICATION
**Job overview**:
**Mental Health Act Compliance Officer**
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our friendly and compassionate MHA Compliance at Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich, full time.
The post requires a good knowledge of Microsoft Office software packages, such as word and excel and a knowledge of issues around confidentiality and data protection. You don't need any previous experience of the Mental Health Act as you will be given full on-the-job training.
If you are an enthusiastic, self-motivated team player with excellent organisational skills and feel that this is the role for you we would love to hear from you.
The post is predominantly based at Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich. Travel to the Julian Hospital - Norwich, Northside House - Norwich, Chatterton House - Kings Lynn, Carlton Court - Lowestoft and Northgate Hospital - Great Yarmouth will occasionally be required.
**Main duties of the job**:
Maintain a thorough understanding and in depth knowledge of the 1983 Mental Health Act (MHA) (as amended). To be able to convert this knowledge into detailed administration of the Act.
To provide information to patients and their relatives in accordance with the MHA Legislation.
To remind and follow up Responsible Clinicians about the expiry of sections.
To liaise with Social Services Departments and others regarding the ‘sectioning’ of patients.
To deal with the administrative tasks associated with Managers Hearings and Mental Health Tribunals including meeting with detained patients to explain their rights of appeal against detention under the 1983 Mental Health Act.
To deal with the administration of Consent to Treatment Regulations.
To assist in the administrative tasks associated with CQC visits.
To provide timely and effective administrative support to the wards regarding Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards requests/authorisations in relation to the Trust’s duties in the role of Managing Authority.
To process and maintain records for those patients detained under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in line with Trust processes and procedures.
To provide, in conjunction with others, holiday and sickness cover with the MHA Compliance team at all sites.
To participate in on-going audits and service development within the team.
To undertake any other appropriate tasks as requested by the MHA Team Leader/MHA Compliance Manager to meet the needs of the service.
**Working for our organisation**:
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
**Why work for us?** We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
**Why Norfolk and Suffolk?** The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS dis
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