About this role
Job summary
Barrow Home Based Treatment Team is looking to welcome a Mental Health Practitioner to their team.
The Home Based Treatment team work in the community with people in acute mental health distress, they support people in their own home to avoid hospital admission and support early discharge from hospital.
The team are looking for a mental health practitioner that is highly motivated and enthusiastic. The successful applicant will need to be able to demonstrate excellent clinical skills. It is expected they would have a good working knowledge of mental health and community services. Excellent communication skills are essential with an ability to manage change and support colleagues around learning and development.
You will need to be proactive, innovative and able to provide quality care, put the service users and carers at the heart of everything you do. In return we will offer excellent supervision, training, support and an environment for you to develop and enhance your current skills.
The Barrow HBTT are a 12 hour service working shift pattern of long days, although happy to discuss flexible working patterns.
Main duties of the job
You will provide a comprehensive assessment and triage service and, where necessary signposting or clear onward facilitation to a mental health pathway. Your referrers will include GPs, Police, self-referrals and referrals from carers via the Initial Response Service and direct referrals via from our Acute Hospital Colleagues and directly from other LSCFT agencies. Service users will be triaged collaboratively and a decision will be made in consultation with the referrer.
The post holder will provide evidence based mental health assessments and/or signposting to alternative service provision for people who present requiring a specialist urgent mental health assessment. The post holder may offer follow-up appointments within the agreed timescale for intervention as part of the on-going assessment process.
About us
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
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Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Social worker / Occupational therapist
Knowledge Essential
Able to understand the difference between crisis planning and contingency planning and able to formulate explicit planning in these areas Knowledge, understanding and experience of the care pathways for psychosis and non psychosis and relevant interventions Effective communication with service users, carers and members of the multidisciplinary teams. Strong customer service and negotiation skills
Skills Essential
Demonstrate the ability to work sensitively in a non judgemental way with service users who are in crisis Ability and skills in undertaking robust psycho social urgent assessments of mental health service user needs Complete risk assessments which reflect the risk a service user may pose. Transfer the risk assessment into robust risk management planning.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address Dane Garth - Home Based Treatment Team
Barrow-in-Furness
LA14 4LF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)