Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
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, supporting them in their own home to avoid hospital admission and facilitate 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 have a good working knowledge of mental health and community services. Excellent communication skills are essential, along with the ability to manage change and support colleagues in 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 operates as a 24-hour service with a shift pattern of long days, including nights, though we are happy to discuss flexible working patterns. Main duties of the job
You will provide a comprehensive assessment and triage service and, where necessary, signpost or facilitate clear 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 using a clinical tool for response time required. This comprehensive, collaborative triage system will lead to thorough 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 individuals 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 role at LSCFT or in a role such as Mental Health Practitioner that requires the same profession. The Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across the area, specialist provision comprising inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care. Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, believing 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, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview. Person Specification
Qualifications
Registered Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist Knowledge
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
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 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. Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
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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, supporting them in their own home to avoid hospital admission and facilitate 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 have a good working knowledge of mental health and community services. Excellent communication skills are essential, along with the ability to manage change and support colleagues in 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 operates as a 24-hour service with a shift pattern of long days, including nights, though we are happy to discuss flexible working patterns. Main duties of the job
You will provide a comprehensive assessment and triage service and, where necessary, signpost or facilitate clear 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 using a clinical tool for response time required. This comprehensive, collaborative triage system will lead to thorough 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 individuals 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 role at LSCFT or in a role such as Mental Health Practitioner that requires the same profession. The Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across the area, specialist provision comprising inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care. Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, believing 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, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview. Person Specification
Qualifications
Registered Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist Knowledge
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
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 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. Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
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