Senior Mental Health Practitioner | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40,701 - £48,054 Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, N15 3TH |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6212937/306-BEH-1358-D |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the North Central London CAMHS Home Treatment Team (NCL HTT) as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. This is role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality mental health care to support young people and their families in times of crisis, who has established and accredited skills, post -registration, and who is able to adapt to crisis situations as and when they arise. The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and will also need to be skilled at multi-agency working.
The NCL Home Treatment Team is a new service delivering high quality co-ordinated care to young people aged 13 up to 18th birthday and their families in mental health crisis across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. The service provides 12 weeks of intensive evidence-based support to prevent admission or facilitate safe early discharge from Tier 4 inpatient units. The team works in close collaboration with CAMHS Assertive Outreach Teams, Tier 4 inpatient units, local authorities, and emergency services. The post holder will work shifts to cover the service hours – 09:00-20:00 weekdays and 12pm-8pm weekends. The role primarily entails providing therapeutic assessments and brief interventions to children, young people and their families referred to the service.
• The post-holder will be expected to deliver flexible, high-frequency, evidence based crisis interventions such as ongoing mental health assessments, risk assessments, safety planning and problem solving in a collaborative fashion.
• Provide a clear, evidence based clinical perspective within the multi-disciplinary team and to referring agencies and external professionals.
• Be able to provide clinical consultation and liaison when appropriate and establish working clinical formulation through regular Multi-Disciplinary Team discussions.
• Help to deliver a service specialising in the care and treatment of children and young people with a range of complex mental health problems and disorders, requiring a crisis response and a period of safe stabilisation out in the community.
• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the provision of specialist child mental health interventions across a range of care provision to meet the needs of individuals, groups of individuals and families requiring intensive Home Treatment support.
• To focus on providing evidence based psychological interventions to young people who are suffering from serious mental illness, via a range of venues.
• Conduct appropriate specialist assessments of children, young people and their families/carers, evaluating the results and offering a range of therapeutic interventions as appropriate to the presenting clinical need.
Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
Key Relationships:
• Demonstrate respect for all team members, maximising potential through the diverse roles within the team.
• Attend team meetings as required and to attend meetings outside the team on occasions.
• Liaison with other teams and services to ensure that quality and timely services are delivered.
• Work closely with other team members to ensure that care is delivered to the highest standards.
• Maintain appropriate client confidentiality at all times, with reference to information sharing agreements using CPA and public protection principles.
• Communicate clearly and concisely in both written and verbal forms, taking into account the ethical, professional and legal aspects of documentation. Document all aspects of care, including care provision and communication with relevant others.
• Use appropriate methods of communication for addressing client, staff and management issues.
• Provide information, education and support to family members, carers and other professionals.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Following input from the emergency liaison team, to assess and manage clinical situations during psychiatric crisis in order to ensure safe and effective care and risk management.
• Offer structured, evidence based individual therapeutic work to young people experiencing serious mental illness, and to their families.
• Support and empower children and young people, their families/carers to influence and participate in decisions concerning their care by providing information on a range of specialist child mental health issues and services.
• Facilitate health promotion in relation to identified child and family mental health needs of children, young people and their families/carers.
• With other senior professionals, take an active role in ensuring the development of evidence based therapeutic interventions and care pathways.
• Ensure that risk assessments and collaborative safety plans are regularly reviewed and routinely carried out.
• To be competent in identifying Safeguarding concerns and make appropriate referrals to social services and attend meetings, and when required consult with Safeguarding Leads
• To have the interpersonal skills necessary to develop a therapeutic alliance with emotionally and psychologically distressed young people and their families, enabling the client to accept responsibility for their personal well-being appropriate to their level of cognitive functioning.
• Work with young people and families with complex needs, in a variety of different settings, using an appropriate range of evidence based approaches.
• The post holder will be required to work closely with families / carers and young people in the community.
• The post holder will also be required to offer evidence based individual work with young people experiencing extreme psychological distress.
• Act in accordance with agreed policies and procedures independently and autonomously within a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency context, especially Safe-guarding procedures.
• In liaison with the clinical lead, explore, implement and lead strategies for quality assurance and audit to contribute to effective systems of clinical governance, in order to contribute to service development.
• To support the multidisciplinary team in developing services that are sensitive to the individual needs of users and carers considering issues of race, gender, sexuality, age, culture and religion.
• To promote a values based service which meets the needs of service users.
• Provide a service, which is in line with the team Operational Policy.
• Contribute to the education of other staff and students.
• Manage time and resources effectively.
• Demonstrate respective for all team members, maximising potential through the diverse roles within the team.
• Attend team meetings as required.
• Participate in supervision on a regular and formal basis.
• Liaise with other teams and services to ensure that qualify and timely services are delivered.
• Proactively address areas of concern and report any areas of concern to the Team or Service Lead
• Work within the Operational Policy for the Home Treatment Team.
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of other relevant Crisis and Emergency Services.
• Act as a professional role model to students and staff at all times.
• Participate in the recruitment of staff.
• Participate in supervision, as per Trust policy, on a regular and formal basis.
• Provide Supervision for Junior Staff.
• Participate in the Professional Development of Junior Staff.
• Manage time and resources effectively within available constraint.
Clinical Responsibility
• Participate in the assessment of clients who are appropriate to be seen by the team and undertake the development and implementation of treatment plans, working within the agreed supervision arrangements within the team.
• Continually review and assess clients’ needs and to seek supervision and guidance as appropriate.
• Provide information, education and support to family members, carers and other professionals.
• Maintain a diary of people visited and complete appropriate returns.
• Maintain and develop expertise in the acute care of people with a serious mental health problem, including the management of people at risk of suicide.
• Provide profession-specific interventions relevant to the needs of service users.
• Work closely with other team members to ensure that care is delivered to the highest possible standards.
• Develop and document Care Plans for individual clients, their family and carers, ensuring that the service user, and where appropriate, carer has an up to date copy of their Care Plan.
• Actively seek to improve own practice by seeking new and innovative ideas for the delivery of care.
• Contribute to the education of clients, staff and student through ensuring practice that:
a) Seeks to identify current needs and expectations through collaboration with the client and where appropriate that it incorporates family and carers in the planning and implementation of care.
b) Commences individual care planning (including discharge planning) during initial entry and assessment phase and clearly documents interventions and plans.
c) Considers the biological, psychological, occupational, spiritual and social needs of care and provides the client and their carers with adequate feedback appropriate information regarding care.
d) Provide appropriate information to other team members of the multi disciplinary team and relevant care providers to ensure that the Care Plan established for the client continues when others provide care.
Leadership and Staff Management Responsibility
• Work with and deputise for the Team Lead as and when required. Contribute to the education of other staff and students.
• Participate in supervision on a regular and formal basis.
• Act as a professional role model to students and staff at all times. Participate in the recruitment of staff.
• Participate in supervision, as per Trust policy, on a regular and formal basis.
• Provide Supervision for Junior Staff.
• Participate in the Professional Development of Junior Staff.
Financial Responsibility
To ensure resources and equipment are purchased in line with the trust guidance and within the teams allocated budget – via the Team Leader or as delegated.
Service Development and Improvement
• Participating in audit and research.
• Contribute to the development work of the service working in partnership with local community organisations and groups, as appropriate to the service and needs of the service users.
• Actively seek to improve own practice by seeking new and innovative ideas for the deliver of care.
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of other relevant Crisis and Emergency Services.
• Expected to take a lead role in the development of the Home Treatment Team including the formulation of protocols.
• Implement all appropriate National, PCH and Local Home Treatment policies and protocols.
This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Apr 2024