Enhanced Response Practitioner | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 29 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 February 2025 |
| Location: | Wallington, SM6 0EX |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6972825/294-COMM-6972825-JB |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to lead one of our Community Teams as Band 7 Community Mental Health Enhanced Response Practitioner.
The post requires a nurse who is forward thinking, innovative, assertive, thrives under pressure, compassionate and can bring their experience and expertise to this senior nurse role within our Community Team, ensuring that they can provide a responsive and co-ordinated Enhanced Response Service and train in Advanced Clinical Practice, meeting the four pillars of clinical practice, providing training and development, participating in QI and research and acting as a compassionate leader.
You will be expected to work closely with the services within the Acute and Urgent Care Service Line, the Community Service Line, Primary Care, the Local Authority and with family and carers in a collaborative and professional manner. In return, the Trust will ensure that you are supported to develop further through our tACP programme and if you wish to achieve further promotion within the organization this is something that we are keen to develop and nurture.
If you are a qualified RMN with a minimum of 3 years experience, then we would like to hear from you if you believe that you have the skills or have the ability to develop into this exciting role.
As the enhanced Response Practitioner you will be leading a community patient led service and work with adults 18-65 years who have mental health issues, social needs and require support with their physical health needs.
These new roles will be introduced into our 5 boroughs to enhance the community systems that are already in place, providing additional senior support and capacity to triage, assess, provide brief interventions and review patients within 24-48 hrs when they are escalating towards a mental health crisis. In essence, this role will act as a senior liaison nurse for community services and for patients who need to be seen quickly but safely outside of other crisis services such as A&E, Crisis Care etc.
The triage will initially determine the crisis response needed and this will be carried out by the band 7 ERP. It is hoped that the addition of this new role will free up the time from other community staff in our community teams to carry out their scheduled clinical appointments rather than needing to respond to patient crisis escalations at short notice.
You will be responsible for the monitoring and assessing patients who’s mental health is deteriorating or behaviour is escalating in the community with your team and using various IT systems, you will work closely with the service’s Senior Management Team to ensure the services delivered are of high quality and meet nationally agreed targets and local KPIs.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
This is a new model of working within our community service line, therefore our enhanced Response Practitioners will work as part of a group to establish this model of care and ensure its success within the borough.
The Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner is a semi-autonomous multi-professional clinical leadership role. The post holder will undertake post-graduate training in Advanced Clinical Practice, while consolidating your advanced-level knowledge and skills within your scope of practice. You will gain a high-level of training and practice-based experience through the four pillars of advanced practice (Clinical Practice, Leadership, Education and Research) - receiving a minimum of 20% off-the-job learning.
The post holder will develop their skills and knowledge to deliver, and lead on the delivery of, high quality safe and contemporary care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence; including: promoting population health, improving personal outcomes, contributing towards service evaluation, while leading and developing research and quality improvement initiatives.
The post holder will be the Borough Lead for health inequalities and will develop expert knowledge of health inequalities and inclusion health to support the development, planning and delivery of the health inequalities programmes. In collaboration with key partners, the postholder will implement innovative health and wellbeing initiatives and lead the delivery of the Health and Wellbeing implementation plan for local people including our ambition to address health inequalities. The Health Inequality Lead's leadership will drive forward systematic and structural change to improve the health outcomes of the population of their borough to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity.
The post holder is expected to place the well-being and safety of service-users/patients above all other considerations, with responsibility to recognise and work within the limits of your professional competence. It is the joint responsibility of the Post Holder, in collaboration with your CSL/Service Manager, Clinical Assessor and Academic Assessor to undertake the ongoing assessment of competence, ensuring this is monitored and recorded in your portfolio and in line with clinical governance and organisational policy.
As a professional leader working within the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership, the post holder is required to encourage and foster collaborative and cross-organisational working.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Feb 2025