Senior Practitioner inSheffield inSheffield PUBLISHED 10 DEC 2023

Principal Duties

• Responsible with the Service Manager and other members of the Leadership for managing and developing staff from a range of professions by providing regular work supervision and appraisals.

• Be a positive role model to promote a conducive working environment.

• Responsible with the Service Manager and Leadership Team for developing effective team working.

• Responsible for the development of evidence based practice within the service.
• Responsible with the Service Manager and Leadership team for ensuring that the service adheres to Care Pathways and service wide systems and processes for the delivery of health and social care

• Responsible for the development of service policies and protocols in conjunction with other senior practitioners and managers across the service.

• Responsible with the Service Manager for ensuring effective systems and governance structures to support the effective delivery of care.

Other Duties

• Deputise for Service Manager in their absence ensuring continuity of service and maintenance of standards.
• Take responsibility for ensuring own professional competence.
• Ensure that behaviour and conduct comply with SHSCs policies and procedures eg Health and Safety, Equal Opportunities, Confidentiality and Data Protection.

• Adhere to professional codes of conduct.

Professional and Advisory Role

• Advise others of the role and function of the service.
• Provide specific clinical and professional advice to a broad range of professionals.
• Maintain close working relationships with professional leads.
• Develop and maintain a professional interface with other services.
• Establish and develop positive partnerships with primary care professionals and related community mental health services.
• Develop and maintain clinical standards within the service in keeping with both local and national policy.

Service Development

• Responsible with the Service Manager and others in the Leadership team for auditing practice within the team.
• Responsible with the Service Manager and others in the Leadership team for ensuring that staff undertake appropriate training.
• To maintain contemporary knowledge of educational developments in relation to the service and profession.
• Routinely engage with service improvement initiatives.

Are you looking for a challenging new role? Do you have a desire to work within a fast-paced crisis network? We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Practitioner to join the new Urgent and Crisis service that was recently launched in April 2024, to work predominantly Out of Hours covering evenings weekend and Bank Holidays.

Sheffield Urgent and Crisis Service have recently undergone an exciting transformation. The new post holder will play an important & integral role in operationalizing the new model of service.

Shift Patterns will be spread across 4 working days, working Twilight shifts, and weekend and Bank Holiday Day shifts, although some flexibility will be expected when required to attended Leadership meetings and training etc.

The urgent and crisis service supports people who are experiencing a crisis with their mental health and / or need urgent help.

The Urgent and Crisis service provide Crisis intervention to service users in Sheffield , primarily supporting people aged 18 and over

The MDT comprises of Psychiatrists, Nurses, Social Workers, Support Time Recovery Workers and other professionals.

The Post holder will Provide a clinical/practice overview and input into the team. The post holder will provide a senior clinical and day to day managerial leadership role within the service. The post holder will be an integral part of the leadership/ management structure, developing practice, practitioners & team functioning.

• To support the team to triage urgent/crisis mental health referrals from a variety of sources and to establish an appropriate response.

  o To support the team and offer clinical oversight of mental health assessments, formulation and time limited treatment planning for individuals needing an urgent/crisis response

  o To support the team to provide a resource of highly specialised, time limited interventions to individuals for up to 72 hours following assessment.

  o To work with other disciplines and teams within Sheffield Health and Social Care (SHSC) to ensure service users benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach that best matches clinical need.

  
  Job description
  

  Working together for service users Respect & kindness Everyone countsCommitment to quality Improving lives

  o To work flexibly to develop team working and to ensure consistent standards of service delivery throughout wider services.

  o To actively participate in developing team functions through tests of change, measuring outcomes, audit and service evaluation.

  o To include families / carers in decision making and planning

This is not an exhaustive list.