Senior Home treatment team practitioner Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner to join our Home Treatment team on a six month secondment. Ideally you will have existing assessment experience and the ability to work as an autonomous practitioner. You will need the ability to move across the Borough of Rochdale to work with people in their homes and you will ideally have had some community experience. You will work within the home treatment function delivering support to patients and their families using evidence based, profession specific, and general mental health knowledge providing client-centered, recovery-orientated principles and practice for individuals, families, and carers. We provide an alternative to inpatient admission treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress. You will be expected to have a means of visiting people in their own homes (when safe to do so) across the Heywood, Middleton, and Rochdale area. We are looking for a qualified practitioner – a Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist. You will need to have experience of community mental health work and/or inpatient mental health services and to be passionate about this area of work. We are more than willing to support people ready for their next stage of their career. The post holder will review patients who are seeking self-discharge from the wards, providing a safer discharge and any Rochdale HTT patients that present at A&E. They will also complete home visits if risk assessed safe to do so, providing greater flexibility for supervised medication regimes for patients. To support patients with telephone calls if required. To be involved in the ongoing development of the service. To undertake accurate psychosocial / risk assessments and act as co-worker for service users who are supported by the Home Treatment Team who present with acute mental health problems or psychological distress. To work in close liaison with other members of the multidisciplinary team, including care coordinators, to implement treatment / management plans in order to facilitate Home Treatment. To undertake the role of the gatekeeper for all people requiring admission to inpatient services, including those requiring assessment under the MHA and to provide an alternative to hospital admission through Home Treatment interventions where appropriate. It is expected that you will deliver care in accordance with all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures, the Mental Health Act and community care legislation. We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester – Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer. Key Responsibilities of the Post: To develop individualized packages of care for service users with mental health problems, including signposting where necessary. To provide intensive home treatment in service users home/community settings. To provide crisis management and short term psychotherapeutic interventions as appropriate. To develop and provide a supported discharge/leave pathway for inpatients. To identify the need for protection in line with safeguarding children and the Protection of Vulnerable Adult Policy and to comply with statutory obligations. To liaise and negotiate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies to ensure the best possible service is provided to service users and carers. To evaluate systematically and record outcomes of mental health assessments, adapting care on the basis of these outcomes. To involve family and carers in the assessment and care planning with service users consent. To provide education and appropriate self-help resources to patients and carers specific to individual needs. This advert closes on Thursday 1 May 2025. #J-18808-Ljbffr