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Job overview
Supporting patients who are acutely unwell in the community, and providing the best level of care to them whilst remaining in their own homes. We provide support for individuals who are experiencing an acute episode in the community, as well supporting people who have been discharged from inpatient wards. We provide a menu of interventions, to ensure the highest level of care and support is delivered.
This is an opportunity to be apart of a dynamic service, providing opportunities to develop your skills and your career. You will play a key role in the multi-disciplinary team supporting the qualified staff members and leading the STR workers. You will need experience working in mental health care as a band 5 qualified practitioner. Experience of leadership and recovery focused practice is required.
This is a permanent role with flexible and part time working opportunities available over 7 days week, covering a 24 hour shift pattern. The team will cover Medway and Swale locality
Supporting patients who are acutely unwell in the community, and providing the best level of care to them whilst remaining in their own homes. We provide support for individuals who are experiencing an acute episode in the community, as well supporting people who have been discharged from inpatient wards. We provide a menu of interventions, to ensure the highest level of care and support is delivered.
This is an opportunity to be apart of a dynamic service, providing opportunities to develop your skills and your career. You will play a key role in the multi-disciplinary team supporting the qualified staff members and leading the STR workers. You will need experience working in mental health care as a band 5 qualified practitioner. Experience of leadership and recovery focused practice is required.
This is a permanent role with flexible and part time working opportunities available over 7 days week, covering a 24 hour shift pattern. The team will cover Medway and Swale locality
Main duties of the job
- To work collaboratively with MDT members to contribute to a flexible and effective interdisciplinary team approach to clinical care.
- To effectively establish a therapeutic relationship with service users and their relatives/carers.
- To assess capacity and obtain informed consent from service users and work within a legal framework with those clients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- In conjunction with colleagues to undertake, record, review and work within individual risk assessment and management plans in line with service and Trust policy.
- To provide mental health assessment of clients with acute mental health needs, clearly assessing and managing risks.
- To ensure service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
- To adapt practice to meet individual service users’ circumstances, including regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Working with service users referred to Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service
- To screen and work with all newly referred service users experiencing acute mental health crisis providing assessment or short term interventions until crisis is resolved.
- To provide short-term specific psychosocial interventions for those who would benefit from crisis interventions
- To contribute to the planning and implementation of induction, training and education of students and staff.
- To contribute to the delivery of specialist/ professional training packages of in-service training and staff development when necessary.
- To fulfil the role of mentor/practice educator, maintaining own update training and ensuring responsibility for regular placement provision and ensuring supervision and written assessment of students whilst on placement.
- To assist the band 7 senior practitioner by identifying personal and professional training needs in order to appropriately plan for future training and development.
- To provide effective supervision, support, and guidance for support /STR/ peer workers and any work delegated to them.
Please see job description for full details.
Person specification
training and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification
Desirable criteria
- additional training/qualifications
knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Experience in qualified role
Desirable criteria
- understanding of community role
PLEASE NOTE: If role is patient-facing, candidates will be required to meet any government requirements for Covid-19 vaccination as a condition of deployment to be appointed. A full course of the Covid-19 vaccination (or where applicable a valid exemption) may be
