SPECIALIST PRACTITIONER - MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM

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NHS AfC: Band 6

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

The Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team (MHCIT) are undergoing an exciting period of transformation and to support this we are recruiting additional practitioners into our dynamic and supportive multi disciplinary team.

The MHCIT Team is a Crisis and Home Based Treatment service for adults aged 18-64 (and their families and carers) living in Hull and East Riding who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis.

We work closely with our partner agencies including Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Humberside Police, Secondary, Primary and voluntary care providers to deliver Crisis and Home Based Treatment and offer a gatekeeping service for Inpatient care.

We are seeking professionals with a Mental Health or Learning disability nursing or social work registration with specialist mental health experience. We are looking for professionals who are patient and carer focused, patient safety led and experienced in mental health and risk assessment and management and developing robust care pathways.

We are seeking individuals who are motivated, enthusiastic and have experience of working with people who have complex needs and severe enduring mental illness. This role requires good organisational skills, being able to demonstrate an ability to prioritise and delegate work effectively, and an interest or specialism in urgent and emergency mental health care, providing expert clinical advice and support and providing leadership and guidance on shift.

Main duties of the job

The main features of this role include assessing the care needs and developing and implementing plans of care for individuals who are experiencing acute mental health deterioration or who are in a state of mental health crisis.

Collaboration with patients and carers and partner agencies is a key element to delivering high quality crisis and acute interventions.

We provide crisis assessment and Home Based Treatment Interventions, gatekeeping for inpatient admissions, coordinate and manage the section 136 suite/Mental Health Based Place of Safety pathway at Miranda House and the 111 option 2 Urgent phone line. We are due to commence partnership working with the Mental Health response Vehicle with Yorkshire ambulance paramedics which is a vehicle to provide an effective response to people in mental health distress who have called 111 or 999 and require a face to face response. Our work is diverse, fast paced and clinically rich.

We are a 24/7 service therefore patterns of duties include days, evenings, weekend\’s, nights and bank holidays.

Working for our organisation

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We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

If you require sponsorship

On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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