Focused Care Pathway Practitioner

Job summary

The East Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) are looking for a skilled Senior Mental Health Practitioner to work within the service's Shared Care and duty team. The purpose of this is to provide consistent and pre-planned crisis care for patients within our caseload who are experiencing a decline in their mental health and require extra support.

The shared care team are part of the multi-disciplinary team and are centre to the daily functions of the CMHT. The role covers a wide range of interventions and communication with primary and secondary care is critical in making sure that the patients are at the centre.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

• To participate in weekly team meetings, communicating service user needs and

  be able to assist in prioritising the allocation of workload.

  To work in a focused way with patients to achieve goals identified by the patient.

  To contribute to the weekly multi-disciplinary meeting where service user's

  presenting with an increased level of need are discussed and to present cases,

  on a rota basis, for team review.

  To formulate care plans in line with identified need and review in line with the

  Trust Care Programme Approach and Care Planning Policy.

  To provide clinical supervision and caseload management to support workers.

  To provide therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk

  assessment, utilising psycho-social interventions and CBT based treatment

  To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review and adjust in line with the

  service user's needs.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Social Worker

Occupational Therapist

Registered Mental Health Nurse

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Lindsay Andrewartha 

lindsay.andrewartha@southernhealth.nhs.uk 

02382310982