Senior Home Treatment Team Practitioner inAshton-Under-Lyne inAshton-Under-Lyne PUBLISHED TUE 26 NOV 2024

This is a diverse and challenging role that requires the development of specialist skills to deliver recovery focused interventions to adults in a mental health crisis. Our focus is to support service users to remain in their own home in order to aid their recovery during the crisis episode. You will be a qualified Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker and will have worked in a multi-disciplinary team. You will need to have significant post qualification experience in mental health and preferably within crisis services.

The post requires practitioners to be confident assessors who can make clear decisions about risk management, care planning and the appropriateness of home treatment team interventions. Effective gatekeeping assessment and the identification and delivery of the best treatment packages for people presenting to services in crisis will also be key.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven registered practitioner who can work autonomously in the community, complete full mental health assessments, manage risk in the community, while also being an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. We also provide clozapine titration in the community.

We are a dedicated team of nurses, OTs, Social workers, QAP and support workers who will work closely with Sector Consultants, our colleagues in the community mental health team, acute inpatients wards and the wider members of the MDT.

The post requires practitioners to be confident assessors who can make clear decisions about risk management and the appropriateness of home treatment team interventions and effective gatekeeping assessment.

You will liaise with other Trust departments to gatekeep referrals to the acute care pathway.

To undertake accurate risk assessment and care planning and act as co-worker for service users who are supported by the Home Treatment Team who present with acute mental health problems or psychological distress. To work in close liaison with other members of the multidisciplinary team, including care coordinators, to implement treatment / management plans in order to facilitate Home Treatment.

It is expected that you will deliver care in accordance with all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures, the Mental Health Act and community care legislation.

This role works within a 24/7 model of care - both day and night shifts to be undertaken on a rotational basis.

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Key Responsibilities of the Post:

To develop individualized packages of care for service users with mental health problems, including signposting where necessary.

To provide intensive home treatment in service users home/community settings.

To provide crisis management and short term psychotherapeutic interventions as appropriate

To develop and provide a supported discharge/leave pathway for inpatients To identify the need for protection in line with safeguarding children and the Protection of Vulnerable Adult Policy and to comply with statutory obligations.

To liaise and negotiate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies to ensure the best possible service is provided to service users and carers.

To evaluate systematically and record, outcomes of mental health assessments, adapting care on the basis of these outcomes.

To involve family and carers in the assessment and care planning with service users consent.

To provide education and appropriate self-help resources to patients and carers specific to individual needs.