Overview
Mid Mersey Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment are currently looking to recruit Band 6 practitioners to join the team.
Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment operates on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis. The service offers intensive home support to service users as an alternative to hospital admission and works collaboratively with a variety of services to support service users at home. The main base is St Helens and the service covers surrounding boroughs: Halton, Warrington & Knowsley.
The post holder will be expected to work on a rotational shift basis in accordance with service demands, including weekends and night shifts. The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within the framework of Effective Care Co-ordination (ECC). The post holder will operate as part of an integrated Home Treatment Service but be flexible in delivering care within a variety of environments. The team will assess and provide treatment to service users with complex needs and consider alternative options to admission where possible.
The post holder should demonstrate an attitude that respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning. They will participate in a 24hr roster system seven days a week, on a rotational basis as service demands require.
Responsibilities
* Formulate, contribute to, and participate in the development and implementation of assessment and care planning systems in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
* Manage a caseload within the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team.
* Carry out generic and specialist assessments, including risk, and provide therapeutic interventions/home treatments within the most appropriate setting in accordance with the service user’s and/or carers’ needs.
* Complete Gatekeeping for all inpatient admission requests across the Merseyside footprint. Assess whether users can be managed safely within the community, promoting quicker recovery.
* Assess risks and collaboratively develop safety plans with users/carers. Ensure effective liaison with inpatient units across the Trust to facilitate early discharges or to undertake reviews of users placed out of area.
* Act as the Duty Practitioner / 2nd Duty, as part of a rotational roster.
* Fully participate in ECC, undertaking a care-coordinator role as appropriate.
* Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.
* Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
* Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.
* Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multidisciplinary team; participate and promote positive intra-agency working.
* Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision and act as Named Nurse as required.
* Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.
* Act as a knowledge resource in a specialist area of practice to other team members and other agencies as required.
* Where indicated and following completion of relevant training, the practitioner will act as a non-medical prescriber, at all times working within their sphere of clinical competence.
About Mersey Care
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across the region. The trust is commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands and offers specialist inpatient and community services across physical and mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. It is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. The organisation is focused on delivering “perfect care” that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient, and supports staff to do their best work with service users, families and carers.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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