Nursing Mental Health Practitioner Salford, North West England, England
Job description
Job overview
Salford is currently undergoing service transformation to redesign our Home First discharge processes and pathways. Our vision for Home First is ‘People are in the right place, at the right time - meaning nobody spends more nights away from home than is absolutely necessary’
We are establishing a Home First Multidisciplinary Community Hub to support people admitted to hospital to be discharged ‘Home First’ and we are looking for a Band 7 Mental Health Practitioner to join the team.
Main duties of the job
- You will work as part of the Salford Home First Multi-Disciplinary Hub. You will provide specialist mental health advice to the Hub team and to hospital /Intermediate care unit staff for people who are medically fit for discharge requiring a support plan after discharge.
- You will provide advice, supervision and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, on the support for the management of mental health issues.
- Undertake specialist mental health assessments, develop formulations, offering highly developed risk assessments and management plans.
- Provide colleagues with assistance in navigating Mental Health, Psychological Therapy services and 3rd sector as onward pathways.
- Be expected to provide support and training to the acute hospital staff and the Home First Hub regarding recognising mental illness and appropriate onward actions to be taken.
- Liaise with mental health services across Salford to support post discharge planning and implementation.
- Attend and contribute to Best Interests meetings
Working for our organisation
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Care Organisation is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership. However, as members of ethnicity minority groups and individuals with disabilities are currently under-represented at this level of post, we would encourage applications from members of these groups. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- RMN, BSc Occupational Therapy or equivalent
- Professional Degree D32/33 or ENB998
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Trained Clinical Supervisor
- Qualifications related to physical health related problems
- To be a non-medical prescriber (NMP) or be willing to undertake this training
- Significant post registration NHS experience including experience of working in all core clinical areas
- Evidence of wide clinical theoretical knowledge base
- Well developed communication skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Experience of working as part of an integrated MDT
- Flexibility
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Car Driver
- Experience of working in the community and/or rehabilitation
- Basic IT skills including: Log in and Log out, Operating a mouse and keyboard and Navigating a Windows based environment
- To demonstrate an awareness and understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity within their role
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/covid-19-vaccination-programme where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from everyone. We value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of our local community. If you are disabled and require reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact the Recruitment Team to discuss.
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
