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MHCAS Mental Health Practitioner

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Mental Health Crisis Assessment Practitioners provide face-to-face assessments to provide clinical assessment, formulation and short-term care planning for people presenting in mental health crisis. They will respond to people referred wherever they are including at home, in the community and other services area. They will ensuring patients get the right care, at the right time, in the right place to ensure people's care move on to the correct next stage for that person.

Clients will be screened and tele-triaged by clinicians from our existing 24/7 - 365 Single Point of Access (SPA). Following this Mental Health Crisis Assessment Practitioners will use a range of brief interventions to empower patients, carers and their families in decision making and divert to a range of health and social care resources for support including crisis support at home, intensive treatment and if necessary care and treatment to be delivered in a hospital setting.

Main duties of the job

Mental Health Crisis Assessment Practitioners provide face-to-face assessments to provide clinical assessment, formulation and short-term care planning for people presenting in mental health crisis. They will respond to people referred wherever they are including at home, in the community and other services area. They will ensuring patients get the right care, at the right time, in the right place to ensure people's care move on to the correct next stage for that person.

Clients will be screened and tele-triaged by clinicians from our existing 24/7 - 365 Single Point of Access (SPA). Following this Mental Health Crisis Assessment Practitioners will use a range of brief interventions to empower patients, carers and their families in decision making and divert to a range of health and social care resources for support including crisis support at home, intensive treatment and if necessary care and treatment to be delivered in a hospital setting.

About us

CNWL can offer:

Flexible working Staying well at work service for tailored employment related support to staff Staff wellbeing zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) network Lived Experience of Mental Health staff network Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BAME) Discounts and savings at hundreds of retailers nationwide with My Trust benefits: you can save money on your weekly food shops, household bills, toiletries and cosmetics, cinema tickets, meals out and holidays or weekend breaks. Childcare vouchers Salary sacrifice Travel discounts

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide evidence based clinical needs and risk assessment, making autonomous clinical decisions about the most appropriate urgent and acute offer to meet assessed need Take decision allocate to the Home Treatment Caseloads or decisions to admit (DTAs) and share these recommendations through collaborative working and support. Be able to make and articulate your autonomous decision making in a high paced area, enabling positive risk taking which other services may challenge Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest clinical research evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures. Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner. Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment. Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change. Champion patients rights, including: dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect. When undertaking all of the above ensure good documentation is provided and entered within the appropriate systems of record sharing. Prepared to work as part of a team feeding into the central Urgent Care Service hub, providing support and empowerment across the team. Ability to understand and adapt to system-wide needs, working flexibility across geographies covered by CNWL as required, particularly out of hours.

12. Lead or contribute to handover and communication with colleagues

Person Specification

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

You are expected to have the skills required to act as a professional, registered clinician and to adhere to your professional Code of Conduct Ability to communicate at all levels, with the multi- disciplinary team, with other teams internal and external to CNWL, GPs, external stakeholders (such as the policy, ambulance service), carers and family. Ability to communicate in writing, and skills in writing letters and reports Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning Ability to communicate, triage and assess clinical information over the telephone Ability to co-ordinate and prioritise tasks.

Desirable

Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis

Education and Qualifications

Essential

Mental Health Nurse Qualification (RMHN) or Social Work Qualification OR adult / LD nursing qualification with mental health experience Current NMC/HCPC Registration Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.

Desirable

Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience/Mentorship qualification

Experience

Essential

Previous experience as a clinician in an acute or community mental health setting. Multi-agency working/working across service interfaces. Working with people presenting in mental health crisis

Other

Essential

Willingness to work unsocial hours and different shift patterns