Assistant Practitioner

2 days ago


Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Assistant Practitioner to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Great Yarmouth. As a valued member of our team, you will play a crucial role in supporting children, young people, and their families in achieving optimal mental health outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
  • Participate in ongoing assessments of service users with the Multi-disciplinary team
  • Assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate service users' needs in conjunction with a registered professional
  • Deliver care within the sphere of the Care Programme Approach, including the importance of working with carers
  • Work independently on own initiative to meet the needs of service users
  • Deliver person-centered care
  • Liaise with external organizations as required, promoting partnership working to ensure holistic care
  • Have an understanding of Social Care requirements and legislation, including referrals, carers' assessments, and self-directed support
  • Attend and contribute to MDT/CPA review
  • Hold and manage an identified caseload where appropriate
  • Participate in and contribute to ongoing review of risk assessments, recognizing and responding to any changes
  • Ensure service users' needs are accurately reflected in health record documentation
  • Assist service users and carers to access information
  • Provide therapeutic interventions, including 1:1 sessions and facilitation of group activities
  • Demonstrate an understanding of pharmacology, including the ability to discuss benefits of medication, issues of compliance, and recognizing side effects
  • Carry out basic physical health checks as required, including basic observations, phlebotomy, MEWS, and respond accordingly to any concerns
  • Ensure that service users' physical health needs are met and demonstrate an ability to identify any common ongoing physical health needs
Team Working and Communication
  • Work within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Recognize the importance of service user and carer involvement in delivery of care
  • Develop relationships and networks with internal and external agencies and services
  • Communicate complex, sensitive information to a wide variety of professionals in a variety of methods
  • Provide updates and reports as required, related to service users' needs and care, both written and verbal
  • Work within Trust Policy in all matters related to communication of clinical risk, including the need for information sharing
  • Clearly understand the issues surrounding confidentiality
Personal Accountability and Responsibility
  • Act consistently with legislation, policies, procedures, and other quality approaches and promote the values of quality approaches to others
  • Practice within the professional boundaries and code of practice for Assistant Practitioners
  • Recognize own level of competency and act and seek support when limitations of knowledge or competency are identified
  • Maintain practice through further study, research, clinical practice, and personal development
  • Work unsupervised and organize own workload and work in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
  • Keep accurate records in accordance with Trust Policies
  • Support the day-to-day running of services, including coordination of staff and daily tasks, training, and mentoring of junior staff
  • Provide leadership for junior staff, including supervision, appraisal, and line management
  • Maintain quality in own work and encourage others to do so
Equality and Diversity
  • Act in ways that support equality and value diversity
  • Support, promote, and value equality and diversity
  • Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity
  • Participate in Equality and Diversity Impact Assessment


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