Key Responsibilities of the Post: To develop individualized packages of care for service users with mental health problems, including signposting where necessary. To provide intensive home treatment in service users home/community settings. To provide crisis management and short term psychotherapeutic interventions as appropriate To develop and provide a supported discharge/leave pathway for inpatients To identify the need for protection in line with safeguarding children and the Protection of Vulnerable Adult Policy and to comply with statutory obligations.
To liaise and negotiate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies to ensure the best possible service is provided to service users and carers. To evaluate systematically and record, outcomes of mental health assessments, adapting care on the basis of these outcomes.
To involve family and carers in the assessment and care planning with service users consent. To provide education and appropriate self-help resources to patients and carers specific to individual needs.
apartmentPennine Care NHS FTplaceAshton-under-Lyne
in mental health and preferably within crisis services.
The post requires practitioners to be confident assessors who can make clear decisions about risk management, care planning and the appropriateness of hometreatment team interventions. Effective...
apartmentPennine Care NHS Foundation TrustplaceAshton-under-Lyne
assessors who can make clear decisions about risk management, care planning and the appropriateness of hometreatment team interventions. Effective gatekeeping assessment and the identification and delivery of the best treatment packages for people...
apartmentGreater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation TrustplaceManchester, 8 mi from Ashton-under-Lyne
Part 1 Mental Health or equivalent Professional body.
• Experience of risk assessment and risk management,
Desirable criteria
• Experience of working within a mental health and hometreatment service
Desireable
Desirable criteria
• • Awareness...