Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Overview

The Older Adults HTT covers the older age populations of Barking, Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest. The aim is primarily to provide an alternative to hospital admission, where appropriate, for those patients in acute psychiatric crisis and to facilitate an early discharge from hospital for those admitted.

• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to health care assistants.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
• To supervise pre-registration students.
• To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.

• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
• The post holder will have Current Effective Status on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - Registered Nurse (RN12) or the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
• To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
• To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
• To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
• To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature and peer review.
• To ensure that assessments and care plans reflect the psychological, emotional, social care, treatment, intervention and risk management needs appropriate to older adults with acute mental health problems.
• To ensure carers are offered assessment of their needs in a timely manner.
• To ensure the safe custody and administration of drugs in accordance with professional code of practice and Trust policy.
• Exercise decision-making skills in relation to patient risk and care in complex cases.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application. We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.

• Probationary Period:
  This post will be subject to a probationary period.
• High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London:
  This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 p.a. pro rata for part time).

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

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