Description of the duties
1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with Forensic mental health needs whilst in hospital and living in the community. This will include:
Standardised risk assessment tools, i.e. Dundrum, HCR-20 Recovery Star Needs assessment Mental state Impact of culture and diversity Functional needs Carers assessments Evaluation of risk Physical health assessment Social care needs Safeguarding and public protection Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act
2. To be responsible for developing, delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment interventions using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence-based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.
3. To act as care coordinator for service users as required, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseload
4. To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers’ ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.
5. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services .To take part in provision of expert forensic consultation, advice, supervision and training to community professionals and other relevant organisations
6. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans.
7. To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.
8. To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.
9. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.
10. Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which maybe required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.
11. Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.
12. Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.
13. To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
14. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
Person specification
Professional registration
Essential criteria
* Registration
* Relevant qualification - RMN, OT, SW
* Minimum 2 years MH experience
Desirable criteria
* Community or forensic Mental health experience
* Experience/ training in drug and alcohol services
* Relevant training e.g. DBT, social supervision
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