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About
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being. To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.
Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
Accepting applications until: 17-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 17-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Cavell Centre
- Town
- Peterborough
- Postcode
- PE3 9GZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Specialist mental health practitioner
Job overview
The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older adults (CRHTTOP) is a well-established, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team based in Peterborough. The team offer intensive support and treatment at home, and in care homes, for older adults with mental health challenges, including the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. The service we offer includes:
- Crisis intervention, intensive treatment, support, risk assessment and management to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating earlier discharge from mental health hospital beds.
- Dementia Intensive Support which offers a practical and a psycho-educational approach to care within patients' homes and care homes – The aim is to avoid admission to hospital from carer burnout and to prevent care placement breakdown.
- We provide time-limited interventions and patients will be referred for longer term monitoring, support, and treatment if appropriate within Older People’s Mental Health Community Teams.
We are strong, passionate, and a fun-loving team with a wealth of clinical experience and knowledge and are looking for a person to join us who will have the following attributes:
- A similar passion for working with older people.
- A desire to develop and enhance existing skills and knowledge.
- Drive and motivation whilst working under pressure in very busy team.
- Experience in carrying out Clinical assessment including risk assessments.
- A strong team-player with a great sense of humour!
Advert
- The post holder will work within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older people to provide a mental health service seven days a week, within a community setting, by providing a psychosocial assessment to those who present with a range of mental health problems. - To work in partnership with service users and carers to provide treatment within the least restrictive environment.
- To take on the role of care coordinator for clients and provide leadership support to others, to ensure that full assessment of individual care needs are undertaken, that care is planned, implemented and reviewed on a regular basis.
- To provide assessment to those at risk of being admitted to hospital and provide care, support and treatment within a community setting or facilitate admission to hospital and promote rapid discharge.
- To provide clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis.
- To act as a role model and promote effective teamwork across the service to meet individual client needs.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- Screen referrals to the service and prioritise referrals effectively and safely
- Provide holistic psychosocial assessment, and subsequent planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
- Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
- Undertake risk management; practising safely and according to individual service user needs.
- Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients.
- 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.
- Act as the patients and relatives’ advocate. Champion patients’ rights, including dignity, equality, diversity, choice, and respect.
- Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss, and change.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
- Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
- Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
- Children and young people’s mental health services;
- Children’s community services in Peterborough;
- Social care;
- Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Mental Health Nurse, Social Work, Occupational Therapy Qualification or Psychologist.
- Current NMC/HCPC/Social work Registration.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical supervision qualification.
- Post Graduate level education relating to specialism.
- Approved Mental Health Practitioner
- Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.
Exerience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in Crisis Environment.
- Working with people presenting with complex mental health needs.
- Multi-agency working/working across service interfaces. Working within a multicultural framework.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff.
- Experience relating to specialism
Skills
Essential criteria
- Assessing, formulating, and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress
- Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning.
- Clear evidence of effective & safe decision making and problem solving
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of ability to develop and lead new initiatives within the clinical care environment.
- Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidenced based clinical interventions relevant to the service.
- Models of care and treatment relevant to working with older people.
- Sound knowledge of Mental Health Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty, Safeguarding Act, Children’s Act, Equality Act 2010, Health and Safety Act and the Data protection Act
Desirable criteria
- SystmOne
Physical
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel promptly across a large geographical area.
- Physically able to undertake a demanding role safely, as required.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Norma Moyo
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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