Frailty Virtual ward Mental Health Practitioner inCalderdale inCalderdale PUBLISHED
THU 14 NOV 2024
Key responsibilities include maintaining effective communication with primary and secondary care services, conducting clinical assessments, and providing medication management as an independent non-medical prescriber. The practitioner will also play a crucial role in the development of therapeutic relationships with service users, empowering them to make informed choices about their health and treatment while also demonstrating clinical leadership and supervision within the team.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly specialised band 7 Mental Health Practitioner in the Community Frailty Team and Virtual wards within the Calderdale Area.
The Mental Health Practitioner will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, who will be available to support and advise staff on the prevention and proactive management of the needs of older people.
The key aims of the service are to:
Reduce urgent admissions and attendances to hospital.
Reduce unnecessary reactive demand on GPs.
To provide a seamless, high quality and integrated approach to caring for people in the community.
The post holder will be able to demonstrate highly specialised quality assessments and treatments for adult service users who experience a wide range of mental health difficulties and need support from mental health services.
We are seeking a practitioner who is highly experienced in assessments and treatments of people living with frailty.
The post holder will be able to demonstrate highly specialised quality assessments and treatments for adult service users who experience a wide range of mental health difficulties and need support from mental health services.
We are seeking a practitioner who is highly experienced in assessments and treatments of people living with frailty.
The post holder will provide flexible and individualised care packages to meet the mental health requirements of patients with mental health needs and those requiring robust clinical risk assessment and treatment skills, along with an understanding of the occupational role and needs of individuals presenting to the service.
The post holder will be required to maintain clear lines of communication with a range of services within primary and secondary care, the Local Authority, and independent sectors.
About us
To provide a high standard of specialist mental health assessment, planning, implement & evaluate planned treatment for individuals with common mental health problems using evidence-based practice. Intervention will reflect peoples psychological, physical, social, cultural, and spiritual needs, promoting good health as well as treating ill health.
Develop therapeutic relationships in which people using services are empowered and enabled to make informed choices about their health and healthcare.
Demonstrate clinical leadership through participation in; the management of referrals, provision of clinical supervision to the frailty service team and wider Community teams, facilitating case review discussions when required.
Prescribe medication as an independent nurse prescriber within their own sphere of competence and the bounds of their approved prescribing status in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy.
Work as an independent non-medical prescriber initiating / modifying treatment to support management of behavioural psychiatric symptoms of dementia, mood disorders, delirium etc. within areas as required and designated, taking responsibility for the clinical assessment of the patient, establishing a diagnosis, and delivering a plan for that patients care and treatment.
- Promote patient choice and understanding when delivering a diagnosis or prescribing medicines, including provision of high-quality information both written and verbal to support this.
- Negotiate with and motivate clients when working with care plans and treatment processes particularly to socially excluded vulnerable people.
- Act as care co-ordinator for service users as required.
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