Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner Posts in Barrow HTT.
Barrow Home Treatment Team is looking to welcome Mental Health Practitioners.
Essential Qualifications required:
Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Social worker / Occupational therapist
The Home Treatment team works 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 is looking for mental health practitioners who are highly motivated and enthusiastic. The successful applicant will need to demonstrate excellent clinical skills and 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, with 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 HTT is a 24 hr service working a shift pattern of long days including nights, although we are happy to discuss flexible working patterns.
Anyone wishing to discuss this opportunity please contact us.
Main duties of the job
You will provide a comprehensive assessment and triage service and, where necessary, signpost or clearly facilitate onward care to a mental health pathway. Your referrers will include GPs, Police, Acute Hospital colleagues, self-referrals, and referrals from carers. Service users will be triaged collaboratively, and a decision will be made in consultation with the referrer and with the use of a clinical tool, based on the required response time.
This comprehensive, collaborative triage system will lead to comprehensive assessment and clear onward facilitation of service users to the most appropriate care following assessment.
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 ongoing assessment process.
About us
*The Welcome Bonus is only available to candidates who are not currently employed (or who have not been employed in the last 12 months) by any NHS provider Trust in the Lancashire & South Cumbria (LSC) Integrated Care System (ICS) in a like-for-like role or core profession. For example, a Band 6 Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Mental Health Nurse at another Trust in the LSC ICS would not be eligible for the bonus if moving to a Band 6 Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Mental Health Nurse role at LSCFT or in a role such as Mental Health Practitioner Role that requires the same profession.
The following trusts are included:
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bank only workers for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are eligible for the scheme if they have not held a substantive role in Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in the last 12 months (subject to all other terms and conditions being met). These incentives are subject to recovery clauses within the first 6 months of employment. This bonus is applicable from 1st July 2024 - 31st January 2025.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The £7k Welcome Bonus package is designed to attract and retain the very best staff in post. The amount a new starter would receive is shown in the Welcome Bonus Payment Schedule below:
£3,000 after 2 months of employment (counted from start date with LSCFT) £2,000 after 12 months £2,000 after 24 months
If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them. Please contact recruitment@lscft.nhs.uk.
PLEASE NOTE: This bonus scheme is subject to a Repayment Clause should the post holder leave this role within 6 months of commencing employment.
For more details, please visit our website - Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (lscft.nhs.uk)
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria, and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and well-being. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part-time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information, please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
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
Motivational skills Assertiveness skills in relation to bed management Demonstrate the ability to work sensitively in a non-judgmental way with service users who are in crisis
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Dane Garth
Barrow-in-Furness
LA14 4LF
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
351-BAY354-EB-T #J-18808-Ljbffr
Barrow Home Treatment Team is looking to welcome Mental Health Practitioners.
Essential Qualifications required:
Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Social worker / Occupational therapist
The Home Treatment team works 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 is looking for mental health practitioners who are highly motivated and enthusiastic. The successful applicant will need to demonstrate excellent clinical skills and 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, with 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 HTT is a 24 hr service working a shift pattern of long days including nights, although we are happy to discuss flexible working patterns.
Anyone wishing to discuss this opportunity please contact us.
Main duties of the job
You will provide a comprehensive assessment and triage service and, where necessary, signpost or clearly facilitate onward care to a mental health pathway. Your referrers will include GPs, Police, Acute Hospital colleagues, self-referrals, and referrals from carers. Service users will be triaged collaboratively, and a decision will be made in consultation with the referrer and with the use of a clinical tool, based on the required response time.
This comprehensive, collaborative triage system will lead to comprehensive assessment and clear onward facilitation of service users to the most appropriate care following assessment.
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 ongoing assessment process.
About us
*The Welcome Bonus is only available to candidates who are not currently employed (or who have not been employed in the last 12 months) by any NHS provider Trust in the Lancashire & South Cumbria (LSC) Integrated Care System (ICS) in a like-for-like role or core profession. For example, a Band 6 Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Mental Health Nurse at another Trust in the LSC ICS would not be eligible for the bonus if moving to a Band 6 Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Mental Health Nurse role at LSCFT or in a role such as Mental Health Practitioner Role that requires the same profession.
The following trusts are included:
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bank only workers for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are eligible for the scheme if they have not held a substantive role in Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in the last 12 months (subject to all other terms and conditions being met). These incentives are subject to recovery clauses within the first 6 months of employment. This bonus is applicable from 1st July 2024 - 31st January 2025.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The £7k Welcome Bonus package is designed to attract and retain the very best staff in post. The amount a new starter would receive is shown in the Welcome Bonus Payment Schedule below:
£3,000 after 2 months of employment (counted from start date with LSCFT) £2,000 after 12 months £2,000 after 24 months
If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them. Please contact recruitment@lscft.nhs.uk.
PLEASE NOTE: This bonus scheme is subject to a Repayment Clause should the post holder leave this role within 6 months of commencing employment.
For more details, please visit our website - Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (lscft.nhs.uk)
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria, and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and well-being. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part-time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information, please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
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
Motivational skills Assertiveness skills in relation to bed management Demonstrate the ability to work sensitively in a non-judgmental way with service users who are in crisis
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Dane Garth
Barrow-in-Furness
LA14 4LF
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
351-BAY354-EB-T #J-18808-Ljbffr
