Senior Mental Health Practitioner Rehabiliation & Recovery
NHS Jobs Exeter
Communication and Working Relationship Skills Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies. Impart highly complex and sensitive information to : Patients and families/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review Multi disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well coordinated care Primary care teams regarding client care External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g.: voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc Service user/carer groups Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires. Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex to and from individuals and their families/carers, where there may be barriers to understanding.Provide a high standards of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards. Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring whilst employing negotiating techniques to gain co-operation from highly complex individuals.
Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies. Facilitate fair access to social care services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
To maintain effective verbal and written communication with the clinical team and to keep staff informed of changes to prescribing intervention or treatment provided to service-users. To work in partnership with medical staff and service-users in the development and implementation of clinical management plans related to an individuals treatment and prescribing needs.
To establish and maintain good liaison with GP practices and other services in the area, including sharing prescribing information and rationale. To liaise and work jointly with partnership agencies, service user and carer groups, with both the statutory and non-statutory sectors as appropriate.
To develop joint working relationships with other services where needed. Analytical and Judgemental Skills Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and diagnosis which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence based and payment by results.
Undertake recovery focussed care planning with individuals, their carers and their families which ensure that personalised recovery goals are identified and met. Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options.
Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of individuals needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to formulate the most appropriate clinical plan Planning and Organisational Skills Organise and facilitate complex meetings, these will include: CPA and non-CPA professional and risk meetings.
Responsible for managing their own workload to ensure the needs to the individuals who use our services are met taking the wider needs of the team into consideration. Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.
Plan and organise individuals packages of care and ensure that reviews are held within the required time frames, for example Section 117, Funding Panels and CPA. Plan own workload and the workload of junior colleagues to ensure that care is provided in the most high quality and cost efficient manner, prioritise and make adjustments as appropriate.
To be aware of the current legislation and prescribing developments that may impact on the delivery of services to service users. Have a good knowledge, and apply current Trust Policies and associated Standard Operating Procedures Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy Ensure that caseload is well managed and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards and recovery co-ordination. Develop and deliver care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation.
Ensure that all interventions have clear outcomes and that these are taken into consideration when sourcing the resources to best meet the individuals needs. This will include enabling individuals to take up Direct Payments and offering the person as much choice and control of resources as appropriate.
Ensure that all social care packages are reviewed within the relevant timescales and focus on integration within existing community resources where possible. Deliver services using a recovery and strengths approach where the needs of the individual and their carers are held as central and their involvement is proactively encouraged.
Deliver care in line with evidence based practice and employ engagement and therapeutic skills that are appropriate to the clinical situation presented. Responsibility for triaging individuals and signposting to the most appropriate services.
Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in relation to the care of individuals. Enable communication and engagement of individuals and their carers to ensure that they have a voice about the services they receive and how these are developed.
This may include engagement of advocacy services. Ensure that appropriate action is taken to safeguarding adults and children. This will include providing and receiving highly complex and sensitive information in relation to safeguarding adult and children work, co-ordinating and chairing safeguarding meetings and implementing relevant care plans.
Ensure that assessment and treatment plans are holistic, outcome focused and take into account the physical health and social needs of the individual, including input of significant others. Ensure the monitoring and review of mental health medication taking into consideration interactions with physical health needs.
Ensuring timely and accurate documentation of all clinical activity in line with professional guidance and best practice. Practice in a way that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery. Comply with the relevant Professional body Code of Conduct/ Royal Pharmaceutical Society Code of Ethics, relevant legislation, procedures and policies.
To attend and contribute effectively to relevant professional forums.
NHS JobsExeter
that is sensitive to the needs of the population. The team will provide comprehensive assessment in order to establish diagnosis and creation of an appropriate person centred evidenced based treatment plan. The Specialist Clinical Practitioner will contribute...
NHS JobsExeter
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.
NHS JobsExeter
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.