Mental Health Practitioner Basildon

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner for a 12-month secondment within the Mental Health Urgent Care Department. The Mental Health Urgent Care Department is a facility where adults, aged 18 years and above, who are experiencing a mental health crisis can receive an urgent biopsychosocial assessment with immediate care planning. It is a new, purpose-built department based at the Basildon Mental Health Unit on the Basildon University Hospital site.

The post holder will work as a Band 6 Senior Practitioner with the urgent care team providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients attending the service. Assessments must be completed in line with your professional code and Trust policies and clinical guidelines.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide comprehensive assessment, care and safety planning for patients attending the Urgent Care Department ensuring their care pathway is purposeful and promotes recovery.
• Ensure accurate and timely clinical documentation in line with your professional Code and Trust policy.
• Develop and maintain specialist clinical skills and expertise in the assessment and treatment of people with mental health needs.
• Receive, triage and assess patients attending the Urgent Care Department, ensuring nursing triage, assessment, care and support of each person is appropriate to their individual needs.
• Offer advice on management of patients with mental health issues to other health care professionals, advocating for best practice in line with Trust and national guidance.
• Assess, investigate, treat and discharge or refer patients attending the department with a diverse range of minor injuries/illnesses, within the parameters of the Urgent Care Department guidelines and scope of practice.
• Feedback outcomes of assessments to the department clinical leaders and agree and implement the management plan.

About us: Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you. Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential. Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks. If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling. We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.

Benefits:

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.
• Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us.
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs: Flexible working: available from day one for most roles. Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

Job responsibilities:

• Support the Clinical Lead in ensuring the effective provision of care, service developments of the urgent Care Team.
• In the absence of the Clinical Lead ensure that referral, assessment and workload allocation happens in a timely, flexible and responsive manner, taking into account the wishes of the patients and their carers.
• On a daily basis, support and manage the patients within the urgent care department, providing appropriate prioritisation of the workload within agreed timeframes depending on the nature of the presenting needs and patient safety risks.
• Participate in team meetings, initiating and discussing new methods/models of care using QI methodology and contribute in the introduction of research or trials within the area.

Person Specification:

Education/Qualifications:

• Essential: Registration Mental Health Nurse RMN Part 3 or equivalent or LD/social work/AHP qualification. Educated to Degree Level or equivalent. Personal evidence of personal and professional development in contemporary mental health practice.
• Desirable: Non-medical prescriber.

Knowledge:

• Essential: Experience in conducting clinical assessments and safety planning. Ability to take on broader responsibilities to improve own and others knowledge and skills.
• Desirable: Good understanding of national policy and the implications for mental health e.g. crisis care concordat, parity of esteem.

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.