mental health counselor Havant, England
Job description
By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.
Job Title: Crisis Team Mental Health Practitioner
Trust Location: Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Pay Rates: Days £20.98, Saturdays and nights £26.98, Sundays and Bank holidays £33.21
Shift Pattern: 0800hrs - 1600hrs, 09hrs -1700hrs, 1400hrs -2200hrs
Monday-Sunday for the next 6 months
About the Trust –
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, rated ‘Good’ in their most recent CQC report, provides a wide range of mental health, physical health and learning disability services across Hampshire. Based in the centre of the South Coast, Hampshire has excellent transport links, with the M3 and M27, an airport in Southampton, as well as quick and easy access to London. As the Trust operates at over 300 sites across Hampshire, there is plenty of opportunities to experience either city, country or coastal life. Staff can also benefit from the Trust’s Academy of Clinical Excellence (ACE) which offers a specific focus on the professional development and career progression for registered nurses, nursing associates and AHPs.
As a member, you’ll have fantastic benefits:
· Competitive pay rates – work this week, get paid next week
· Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go – access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
· Essential support when you need it – 24/7 365 days – Call us anytime
· Multi-locational - work across neighbouring Trusts
· First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust – access before they are made available to agency
· Varied working options to suit your lifestyle – access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements
· Training and development opportunities
· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work
· Stakeholder pension scheme available
What you’ll be responsible for:
To contribute to the provision of intensive home-based treatment, as an alternative to hospital admission, providing a 24-hour service across the acute care pathway. To work proactively in accordance with the principles of social inclusion, promoting independence and recovery.
- To ensure the provision of intensive home-based treatment, as an alternative to hospital admission.
- To undertake ongoing assessment, implementation and evaluation of care needs of a changing caseload of service users within their home environment.
- To work closely with the inpatient units ensuring the effective transition of care across the acute pathway.
- Ensuring the regular attendance at ward rounds, professionals meetings to identify service users who may benefit from the Hospital at Home Service.
- Liaise closely with Community Treatment Teams ensuring the safe discharge of service users following a period of treatment with the Hospital at Home Service.
- To work as a lead practitioner in managing a flexible, team-based caseload.
- To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students.
- To lead the care for a specified group of service users.
- To work in a 24-hour service, on a shift basis.
- To ensure the completion of a rota system, ensuring adequate staffing levels are maintained over a 24-hour period.
- To undertake supervision and appraisal for a defined number of junior staff.
- To proactively work in accordance with the principles of social inclusion, promoting independence and recovery.
- To lead the clinical management of a designated group of service users.
- To allocate work to junior colleagues, reviewing progress and agreed outcomes.
- To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person-centred healthcare to a designated group of service users, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate.
- To work as a member of the multi disciplinary team in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in service users’ health.
- To identify and ensure the provision of the necessary physical care to service users, to help them complete daily living activities, ie: personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, manual handling, personal environment, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations.
- To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality, and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.
- To identify and provide appropriate intervention and emotional support for service users.
- To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.
- To ensure prescribed physical observations are undertaken as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately.
- To work with service users and carers across a wide age range including 16-18 and persons under 65.
- To work in flexible ways with service users who may be difficult to engage or demonstrate a degree of diagnostic uncertainty.
- To undertake direct work with service users and their families, including formulating care plans, crisis management, and advocacy.
- To be confident in using social inclusion, person-centred and recovery focussed models of care.
The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above.
You’ll have the following qualification/experience:
- Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Mental Health Practitioner or O.T.
- Computer skills
- Significant post qualifying experience
- Speciality specific Level 3 learning*
- Knowledge of another language
- Mentorship course (willingness to work towards this)
- Clinical supervision training
Experience (general/specific) :
- Highly developed communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding
- Good facilitation skills
- Evidence of effective interpersonal skills (active listening, building empathy)
- Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
- Ability to motivate service users
- Ability to work autonomously
- Provide clinical supervision.
- Able to co-facilitate group work
- Evidence of effective team working and leadership skills
- Evidence of experience in education of nurses and/or multi-professional groups
- Experience of mentorship in practice.
*Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills.
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As an equal opportunities' organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.
Disclaimer
Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: £20.98-£33.21 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Havant, PO9 1HS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
