This is an excitingopportunity to take a lead role in contributing to the delivery of high-quality care within the South Manchester Home-Based Treatment Team. As a Band 7 Senior Practitioner, you will provide strong leadership and support the management of a busy urgent care team to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care for individuals requiring HBTT as an alternative to hospital admission.
The Senior Practitioner will support the day-to-day coordination and management of the service. You will provide visible and accessible leadership to staff within the Service; you will support the delivery of a safe and efficient service to those accessing it and ensure timely, person-centred interventions that promote recovery and wellbeing. Key Aspects of the role include monitoring the performance and quality of the service the team delivers. Alongside clinical leadership and effective day-to-day management of the team.
You will need to be able to manage your own workload, work well under pressure and be able to work within a multi-disciplinary team. You will also be working collaboratively with multiple agencies and will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and an awareness of Trust Policies and Procedures.
The HBTT service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so flexibility in working patterns is essential, which may include weekend and out-of-hours working and contributing to the on-call Operational rota.
Main duties of the job
Supporting the service to develop and maintain robust gatekeeping processes, incorporating the principles of person-centred care and least restrictive interventions
Proactively identifying and facilitating supported early discharges from our inpatient settings, by attending board rounds and mini-MDTs, and completing trusted assessment for patients going to out of area HBTs on discharge
Being involved in purposeful admission formulation and statements, and the review of these as part of ward round if and when admitted and with other services involved such as community mental health teams
* SURP provides training on HBT and the SURP role to key stakeholders, for examples inpatient services and MHLS, and to promote this role and understanding of the role of HBT.
They play an active part in the leadership and service development of the HBT, for example by line managing staff members, offering clinical supervision to staff either formally or informally, attending and contributing to the leadership meetings and supporting operational duties.
- SURP facilitate spoke days for shadowing as part of induction or on student placements - this can be from HBT or other services across the division.
About us
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Job responsibilities
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.
Undertake responsibility for the continuous improvement of the service provided by the Home-Based Treatment Team.
Ensure that the contract for the service is delivered in line with the service level agreements and service specifications which detail quality, quantity and cost. Including the provision of regular reports on the agreed service standards, performance indicators and outcomes.
Undertake responsibility for the maintenance of good standards of professional practice.
Undertake responsibility for the management of the financial budgets for the Home-Based Treatment Team in accordance with the Trusts standing financial instructions.
Undertake line management responsibility for all non-medical staff in the Home-Based Treatment Team.
To lead the multi-disciplinary team
To plan with the multi-disciplinary team the allocation of key workers and involvement of other team members in treatment plans.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management of all clients as necessary.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RMN and evidence of significant professional development OR CSS/CQSW/Dip SW or equivalent Social Worker training and experience OR Occupational Therapist
* Trained supervisor
* Teaching qualification
Experience
* Significant post qualifying experience of working within community mental health settings, working with individuals experiencing severe and enduring mental illness.
* Experience of working in a supervisory capacity
* Experience of managing a multidisciplinary service or function
* Experience of service development and quality improvement
* Experience of working within the Core Fidelity model for HBTs
Knowledge & Skills
* A knowledge of the Home-Based Treatment Service Model of intervention and its effectiveness
* Sound knowledge of the factors involved in the development of poor mental health and key features of relapse prevention
* Ability to organise, prioritise and monitor own and others' workload
* Ability to implement and maintain good standards of professional practice to ensure a quality and efficient service
* The ability to promote good staff care by creating a supportive environment, which contains workload management, supervision, staff development and training opportunities
* Knowledge of service monitoring and evaluation
Other
* A willingness to be flexible, proactive and to undertake duties which may fall outside traditional professional boundaries
* Post holder will be required to participate in an on-call system
* There is an occasional requirement to travel across the wide footprint of the Trust to attend meetings and events relevant to the role
* Committed to improving mental health services
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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