This role demands active participation in planning and executing treatment to help young individuals remain in their homes, while adhering to a 24-hour service schedule that includes night and weekend shifts. The practitioner will manage a caseload, engage in the assessment and evaluation of care strategies, and ensure compliance with Trust protocols, documenting interactions and decisions in relevant systems. Overall, the position is pivotal in delivering high-quality mental health support and intervention in a community setting.
Band 6 practitioner have a crucial role in assessing mental health crisis in children and young people referred to the service and supporting the delivery of safe and effective home treatment for an identified group and in accordance with that persons' wellbeing and recovery action plan. The main purpose of the role is to provide mental health assessment, risk assessment and treatment, with the primary focus of the work being the high quality assessment and treatment of patients presenting with a mental health issue within a physical healthcare setting, may have physical health conditions impacting upon their mental health
Provide specialist assessment and care planning in conjunction with service users and carers, evaluation of individual treatment plans and discharge planning
Contribution to the delivery of home treatment through nursing care to an identified community client group and within a multi-disciplinary team.
Support for and facilitation of, early discharge from hospital.
This is a 24 hour service which will involve shifts including weekends and nights.
To coordinate the workload of the team on an as required basis.
To provide an active involvement in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of service user care which focuses on ensuring that service users are supported to remain in their own homes wherever hospitalisation can be safely and appropriately avoided.
To be responsible for an agreed caseload to be determined by the operational lead and reviewed under Clinical supervision.
Triage and assess referrals received by service in liaison with multi-disciplinary colleagues as appropriate. Formulate and action appropriate response based on need, risk and urgency. Respond to and inform referrers/other professionals and responsible adults as necessary on decisions, plans, policy and best practice. Record this on Trust systems (RIO and Safeguard).
About us
Assessing a mental health crisis and delivering safe and effective home treatment for young people in accordance with their care plan and risk assessment. Assessing young people who present to our local acute trust, facilitate a holistic assessment along with robust safe discharging plan and risk management
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