Senior Mental Health Practitioner Band 6 Andover

As an RMN in our team you will deliver high quality holistic care for people with severe and enduring mental illness. You will be expected to work collaboratively with other clinicians and GPs to contribute to annual health reviews, risk assessments and risk management, and achieve key performance indicators. This opportunity also gives you the chance to make a real difference to individuals' lives through high quality compassionate and integrated care.

Main duties of the job

• Your primary caseload will include patients registered with GPs within the Andover CMHT catchment area.
• This offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your knowledge and build strong working relationships with local Primary Care Networks.
• To work in line with all relevant policies and procedures, including care planning, risk and safeguarding.
• Helping with Depot and Clozapine clinics.
• Holding a small caseload of patients.
• Supporting housebound patients in the community.
• To alert the Team Leader or Manager to any concerns in a timely manner.

Communication

• To develop a professional relationship with service users based on principles of recovery, such as hope, opportunity and choice.
• To record agreed outcome measures.
• To accurately record all contacts with service users in the Rio electronic record in line with Hampshire & the Isle of Wight Healthcare FT record keeping policy.
• To ensure effective communication with service users, their relatives and carers.
• To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation as well as policies and procedures.
• To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to the service user and complies with legislation.
• To respond to questions or concerns from service users and carers in a timely and professional manner.
• To be aware of professional boundaries in keeping with Trust policy.

About us

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives. Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse.
• Social Worker.
• Mental Health Practitioner or OT with Computer skills.

Experience

• Commitment to lifelong learning.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding.
• Good facilitation skills.
• Evidence of effective interpersonal skills.
• Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks.
• Able to co-facilitate group work.
• Working knowledge of the application of the appropriate professional Code of Conduct.

Desirable

• Knowledge of risk assessments and outcome measures.
• Facilitating group and project work.
• Able to carry out supervision of staff.

Additional Criteria

• Patients & People First.
• Providing compassionate and safe care.
• Listening to each other.
• Doing the right thing.
• Appreciating each other.
• Delivering quality.
• Partnership.
• Communicating clearly.
• Supporting each other.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.