Job overview
The post holder will provide specialist interventions and manage a caseload of individual service users within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency framework.
This includes
Proactive engagement, assessment, care planning, risk mitigation, crisis planning and management and promoting advocacy and multi-agency working
Individual bespoke pieces of work when a patient does not ‘fit’ established pathways
Individual bespoke pieces of work to support junior staff in case management
Main duties of the job
Providing mental health nurse expertise into the team and into other services
Providing proactive care navigation across ELFT services and into other organisations modelling multidisciplinary and multi-agency working
Delivering substance misuse and mental health treatment, social care interventions and facilitating access to physical health services
Providing proactive engagement, assessment, care and risk planning, crisis planning and emergency interventions
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Providing bespoke interventions: short proactive interventions, one-off assessment and recommendations, and one-off and ongoing case review support in other teams and organisations, work to support junior colleagues in case management by re-setting the care plan
The post holder will manage a caseload of up to 45 service users – mixture of short, longer and off-off pieces of work
Person specification
Qualification/Training
Essential criteria
1. Professional Qualification: Mental Health Nurse (appropriate register)
2. Evidence of professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
3. Experience of effective multiagency working
4. Experience in effective delivering a wide range of substance misuse, mental health and social interventions
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
5. Ability to understand (and explain to others) of the issues effecting people who experience substance misuse and mental health issues
6. Ability to deliver substance misuse and mental health treatment, social care interventions and facilitating access to physical health services
7. Ability in proactive engagement, assessment, care and risk planning, crisis planning and emergency interventions
8. Proven effective case management ability – and the ability to teach this to other staff: how to be effective, prioritise work, and make best use of other services such as 3rd sector supports and advocacy services
9. To deliver teaching and training to a variety of staff
10. To deliver against multiple deadlines
11. Excellent communication – written and verbal Lateral, proactive and pragmatic thinking
12. To represent drug/alcohol users and P2R in Social Care/Health Integration forums
Knowledge
Essential criteria
13. Knowledge of the Mental Health Act, The Care Act, 2014 and other statutory frameworks
14. Of safeguarding and mental capacity requirements and obligations
15. Of social care, clinical and information governance
16. Of equal opportunities, confidentiality and consent issues