Additionally, the practitioner will support hospital discharges and liaise with external agencies to promote personalized recovery outcomes. Flexibility is key, as the role encompasses community-based work, and some travel will be required. The service operates Monday to Friday, with a commitment to guiding service users on accessing support outside of standard hours. The position contributes to the overall development of the CERT while prioritizing holistic approaches to enhance the recovery journeys of patients.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the New Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT) for the Black Country. This role includes providing wrap around care in conjunction with CMHTs and care co-ordination of service users from a capped team caseload that are either in out of area rehabilitation placements or living within the Black Country. These individuals will be open to secondary care services with a diagnosed Severe Mental Illness and requiring community rehabilitation support.
The post holder will also be responsible for supporting discharge from hospital, providing recovery focussed interventions and assessing the complex mental health needs of individuals, ensuring that the placement and or package of care is appropriate to their needs and step down to locality based services. The post holder will work intensely with the client for up to 18 months, focussing on helping to build resilience, improve their wellbeing and tailoring interventions to meet their individual, cultural and social needs to help them to achieve their optimum level of functioning and a fulfilling life
The post holder will work as part of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT) MDT, which includes a Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologist and Occupational Therapists. The post holder will liaise with external agencies to achieve personalised recovery outcomes for patients within the service.
The post holder will be able operate flexibly from home and /or a community-based facility and will provide service from the work base, virtually or within the service user's place of residence. Some travel will be required to visit out of area placements to review care
The service will operate Monday to Friday 9-5 hours but is expected to advise service users and carers of access to services outside of these hours and liaise and refer on to other mental health care providers in cases where support outside of these hours is required.
About us
Provide care co-ordination, Wrap around input to CMHT, assessment and recovery focussed interventions to service users within a specified time frame across the Black Country
Liaison with external services to facilitate discharge from out of area placements, co-ordinate 117 packages of care and to support referral process
Contributing to the development and implementation of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (HOPE team)
Working within an MDT to work holistically and improve our patients recovery journey
For further details please see Job Description and Person Specification
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