Overview
The CRHT team is a part of urgent care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support clients in a mental health crisis. It offers clients care and support in their own homes as an alternative to hospital admission. As an Urgent Care Practitioner in our team you will work in partnership with service users with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of top-quality care to service users. This will include working alongside service users, carers, families and partner agencies such as voluntary sector agencies, schools and colleges. You will be providing specialist clinical advice, carrying out clinical procedures, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments in order to progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention. You will also be involved in providing clinical supervision to junior staff and students, acting as shift co-ordinator as needed to lead the team on shift, and liaising with other services and external agencies to triage referrals to the service and gatekeep inpatient admissions.
Qualifications
* Professional Registration – experience of working in the relevant care group.
* Experience of working with people with complex needs.
* Experience of conducting clinical assessments, including risk assessments.
* Experience of supervising staff (advantage).
Benefits
* Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team.
* Excellent supervision programmes with ongoing training opportunities.
* Free parking on-site.
* Access to a host of discount schemes.
* A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC.
* Generous holiday entitlement (27 days + 8 bank holidays).
* Excellent NHS Pension.
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