Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: working 7 days a week including bank holidays.
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 311-R337-24-A
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birch Hill Hospital
- Town
- Rochdale
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/12/2024
Employer heading
Home treatment team practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
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Job overview
Are you interested in working with people in a mental health crisis and need home treatment? We are looking for a new Band 6 to join our team (Rochdale Home Treatment Team). If you are an experienced Band 5 ready to make the step in your development, then we would love to hear from you too.
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
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.
They will also complete home visits if risk assessed safe to do so, providing a greater flexibility for supervised medication regimes for patients.
To support patients with telephone calls if required.
To be involved in the ongoing development of the service.
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.
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.
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:
To develop individualized packages of care for service users with mental health problems, including signposting where necessary.
To provide intensive home treatment in service users home/community settings.
To provide crisis management and short term psychotherapeutic interventions as appropriate
To develop and provide a supported discharge/leave pathway for inpatients To identify the need for protection in line with safeguarding children and the Protection of Vulnerable Adult Policy and to comply with statutory obligations.
To liaise and negotiate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies to ensure the best possible service is provided to service users and carers.
To evaluate systematically and record, outcomes of mental health assessments, adapting care on the basis of these outcomes.
To involve family and carers in the assessment and care planning with service users consent.
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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachael Apps
- Job title
- Home Treatment Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01706 676161
- Additional information
Please feel free to contact Rachael for an informal chat about the service or to arrange a visit.
We are more than willing to support people ready for their next stage of their career so don't be put off if you have not worked in the community yet but we expect the successful candidate to be able to think on their feet and be responsible for their own practice and safety of their patients.
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