Treatment Team Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Home Treatment Team Practitioner to join Lambeth Home Treatment Team. The post holder will work as part of the borough's Home Treatment service on a rota basis. The role will include working across the Trust's Acute Referral Centre (ARC) on a rotation basis although most time is spent located in the borough Home Treatment Service.

When working in the HTT team, practitioners undertake assessments and treatment as required. The person will lead in the assessment, co‑ordination, planning, implementation, evaluation and delivery of high‑quality home treatment for people in acute psychiatric crisis. The role will involve responsibility for a group of mental health service users in crisis, with the aim of promoting their recovery and maintaining them in a community setting rather than in hospital.

When working in ARC Practitioners undertake triage assessments and on occasions face‑to‑face assessments. They form part of a team that manages beds and are expected to follow through the referral to a safe conclusion which means liaising with wards, community services and Home Treatment teams.

Please note vacancy may be closed early once capacity has been met.

The post holder will work as a Registered Mental Health, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, who, acting within their own professional boundaries, will provide care for presenting service users from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. The post holder will supervise junior members of staff and support the work of the senior team members of the team.

The post holder will play a key role in the current development of the team and help implement the service’s aims and objectives, as well as helping to ensure good links with referring in‑patient and community teams, with a view to reducing the number and length of inpatient admissions. Effective gatekeeping assessment and the identification and delivery of the best treatment packages for people presenting to services in crisis will also be key.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well‑established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five‑year strategy, Aiming High;
Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them an asset to the Trust.

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights.

We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and…