Mental Health Practitioner- Urgent Care- Crisis Care Suite & 136 Suite

Job overview

We are delighted to offer an exciting and highly rewarding opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner (Registered NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered HCPC Allied Health Professional) to join our new Crisis Care/136 Suite based at St Georges Hospital, Stafford and working across our other Urgent and Emergency Care Mental Health Services in Staffordshire.

You will be part of a team providing specialist adult mental health support and will play a crucial and pivotal role in assessing Mental Health needs of individuals who are referred to the service that are experiencing a Mental Health Crisis and require an urgent assessment.

You will be responsible for supporting a culture of “wrapping the service around the person” supporting the delivery of safe and effective treatment and interventions for those individuals in line with a needs led plan of care.

As an integral member of the Crisis Care/136 Suite team you will be expected to work flexibility to cover across our Urgent Care Services to ensure that pathways work together as a whole service, to meet the person’s needs.

The Service operate 24/7 with core working hours 8am-6pm 7 days per week. On occasions work you may be required to work outside of the core hours, so flexibility is essential.

Due to the nature of this role. you will require the ability to adequately travel across a large geographical area when required.

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health Practitioner in this team, expected to deliver a wide range of skills and utilise your extensive knowledge within all aspect of the 3 services to deliver effective and efficient care.

You will be responsible for undertaking clinical assessments, in accordance with the clinical pathway, to establish the person’s needs, goals, risks and strengths to generate a formulation-based care plan agreed with all involved.

As part of this role, you will be expected to:

• Be responsible for delivering therapeutic interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health related difficulties.
• Provide indirect care through the functions of educator and advice giver to relatives, carers and other organisations where appropriate.
• Participate in the delivery of the agreed aims and objectives of the service and identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
• Provide care in line with NICE Guidance, COT Recovering Ordinary Lives Mental Health Strategy and COT Care Cluster guidance including other relevant local and national documentation.

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