Mental Health Clinical Advisor

Are you looking for a new and challenging role? Do you have experience of working in Mental Health?

As part of our new Mental Health Strategy, EMAS have exciting opportunities for enthusiastic applicants to join our Clinical Assessment Team (CAT) working within a multi-disciplinary team based in our Emergency Operations Centres to deliver quality care to our patients and provide advice to the wider EMAS team.

We are looking for Registered Clinicians/Occupational Therapists /Social Workers with an extensive background in supporting Mental Health

Our Mental Health Strategy enables us to meet the objectives of the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) which identifies ambulance services as being integral in supporting people who are experiencing a mental health crisis. That is why we are recruiting more mental health staff into our emergency operation centres so that patients can be supported via ‘hear and treat’, appropriate pathways/appropriate signposting.

The CAT comprises paramedics, nurses, midwives, and mental health practitioners. Team members provide advice to patients and operational staff referring or signposting them to services and places where alternative, more appropriate care can be provided. This allows our ambulance crews and hospital colleagues to provide face-to-face care and treatment to those who are in most need.

Our Emergency Operations Centres (EOC) are based in Nottingham and Lincolnshire and on average receive one call every 34 seconds.
- Provide urgent telephone triage assessment of patients.
- Provide high quality and evidenced based clinical care to patients in Crisis by signposting to appropriate MH teams/pathways.
- Ensure appropriate and accurate entry to records and documentation.
- Provide a calm and confident resource to colleagues in stressful situations, providing leadership in mental health.
- Exercise advanced skills in de-escalation of distress, and anger.
- Demonstrate appropriate control and leadership in situations where people may be frightened, aggressive and/or violent.
- Actively make your experience available as a resource for advice and support to other members of the team.
- Liaise with other Healthcare Professionals, including Paramedics, Doctors, GP’s, Nurses, Allied Healthcare Professionals and Social Care Professionals from Primary and Secondary care as well as third sector organisations.
- To Support 999 Call Handlers in the assessment of emergency calls where required.

The post holder will report to the Clinical Assessment Team (CAT) Manager for Mental Health. They will be part of a wider Multi-Disciplinary Team across both CAT and the wider Emergency Operations Centre.

**Main duties of the role include**:

- Provide urgent telephone triage assessment of patients.
- Provide high quality and evidenced based clinical care to patients in Crisis by signposting to appropriate MH teams/pathways.
- Ensure appropriate and accurate entry to records and documentation.
- Provide a calm and confident resource to colleagues in stressful situations, providing leadership in mental health.
- Exercise advanced skills in de-escalation of distress, and anger.
- Demonstrate appropriate control and leadership in situations where people may be frightened, aggressive and/or violent.
- Actively make your experience available as a resource for advice and support to other members of the team.
- Liaise with other Healthcare Professionals, including Paramedics, Doctors, GP’s, Nurses, Allied Healthcare Professionals and Social Care Professionals from Primary and Secondary care as well as third sector organisations.
- To Support 999 Call Handlers in the assessment of emergency calls where required.