Senior Home treatment team practitioner

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

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Job overview

We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner to join our Home Treatment team on a six month secondment. Ideally you will have existing assessment experience and the ability to work as an autonomous practitioner. You will need the ability to move across the Borough of Rochdale to work with people in their homes and you will ideally have had some community experience.

You will work within the home treatment function delivering support to patients and their families using evidence based, profession specific, and general mental health knowledge providing client-centered, recovery-orientated principles and practice for individuals, families, and carers.

We provide an alternative to inpatient admission treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress. You will be expected to have a means of visiting people in their own homes (when safe to do so) across the Heywood, Middleton, and Rochdale area.

We are looking for a qualified practitioner- a Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist. You will need to have experience of community mental health work and/or inpatient mental health services and to be passionate about this area of work. We are more than willing to support people ready for their next stage of their career.

Main duties of the job

1. The post holder will review patients who are seeking self-discharge from the wards, providing a safer discharge and any Rochdale HTT patients that present at A&E.
2. They will also complete home visits if risk assessed safe to do so, providing a greater flexibility for supervised medication regimes for patients.
3. To support patients with telephone calls if required.
4. To be involved in the ongoing development of the service.
5. To undertake accurate psychosocial / risk assessments and act as co-worker for service users who are supported by the Home Treatment Team who present with acute mental health problems or psychological distress. To work in close liaison with other members of the multidisciplinary team, including care coordinators, to implement treatment / management plans in order to facilitate Home Treatment.
6. To undertake the role of the gatekeeper for all people requiring admission to inpatient services, including those requiring assessment under the MHA and to provide an alternative to hospital admission through Home Treatment interventions where appropriate.
7. It is expected that you will deliver care in accordance with all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures, the Mental Health Act and community care legislation.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities of the Post:

1. To develop individualized packages of care for service users with mental health problems, including signposting where necessary.
2. To provide intensive home treatment in service users home/community settings.
3. To provide crisis management and short term psychotherapeutic interventions as appropriate.
4. To develop and provide a supported discharge/leave pathway for inpatients.
5. To identify the need for protection in line with safeguarding children and the Protection of Vulnerable Adult Policy and to comply with statutory obligations.
6. To liaise and negotiate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies to ensure the best possible service is provided to service users and carers.
7. To evaluate systematically and record, outcomes of mental health assessments, adapting care on the basis of these outcomes.
8. To involve family and carers in the assessment and care planning with service users consent.
9. To provide education and appropriate self-help resources to patients and carers specific to individual needs.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RMN / Social Worker / OT

Desirable criteria

• PSI Training

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive knowledge of mental health legislation and guidance

Desirable criteria

• Experience of work in Crisis / Home Treatment Team

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge and experience of working within a multidisciplinary team

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to provide leadership cover in the absence of the team manager when required
• Ability to supervise and support community support workers in meeting the needs of clients on their caseload.
• Ability to prepare, record and complete relevant documents and reports to a professional standard

Desirable criteria

• Commitment to professional development

Work Related Circumstances

Essential criteria

• Must be able to work flexibly over a 7 day week in response to client / service user needs
• Must be willing to develop competencies within the scope of professional practice to meet service needs

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What happens after your application has been received?

You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.

What happens if I am offered the position after interview?

The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.

What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?

By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:

• Identity verification
• Right to work check
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
• Professional registration and/or qualification check
• Occupational health assessment
• Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.

What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?

Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.

Other important information

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
• If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
• If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
• Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
• We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.

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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.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 119.0KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 94.1KB)
• Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)