CRHT Associate Practitioner | Isle of Wight NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG |
| Company: | Isle of Wight NHS |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6183788/470-24-0002-KP |
Summary
We are recruiting for six Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team Associate Practitioners to work within the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team providing support to service users in crisis as an alternative to hospital admission.
The post holder will contribute to the ongoing assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health and wellbeing needs. There will also be a requirement to complete administrative tasks communicating within the MDT and wider allied organisations.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description & person specification document attached. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population. Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.
This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.
We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the new organisation will be called Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
As part of the move towards working as one organisation, people employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust on 30 April 2024, will transfer to Southern Health Foundation Trust under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 May 2024.
On 1stJuly 2024 Southern Health will become the new organisation (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust).
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust will continue to deliver both acute and ambulance services for the island population.
To undertake the role of Associate practitioner for identified service users who are deemed to have complex needs and risks. he ongoing assessment, planning, delivering and review of care to meet identified physical, mental health and wellbeing needs. This will include:
• Organising and participating in defined assessment methods/activities
• Arranging care review meetings in line with Trust policy
• Developing and reviewing appropriate care plans identifying and organising other resources as appropriate
• Computing relevant paper and electronic documentation in line with Trust Record Keeping Policies
• To positively promote the recovery and independent living of service users within the community, taking into consideration holistic needs (education, welfare, financial, leisure, housing, spiritual, etc.), in partnership with other individuals and agencies.
• To support service users to engage with their individual care plan, working in collaboration with both service user and their networks of support including family and carers.
• To provide support and therapeutic interventions to service users in order to promote their recovery in their community environment, helping them to build their own support network.
• To assist in the assessment of service users mental state and facilitate inpatient admission if required.
• To support with admin tasks identified through the assessment and discharge process as directed by the Senior Practitioners.
• To liaise with allied agencies to include health, social and third sector to ensure on-going service user needs are coordinated in an integrated manner.
• To have the individual service users needs at the fore at all times and use agreed values and skills to underpin their ongoing journey.
• To assist the mental health practitioners in administering agreed standards of care to all service users.
• To provide information on discharge to patients, their support networks and wider agencies to ensure that ongoing support is seamless.
This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024
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