We have an opportunity for Band 6 Urgent Care Practitioner to join to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) at Langley Green Hospital in Crawley, West Sussex. We would particularly welcome applications from qualified Occupational Therapists and / or Social Workers .
CRHTT is a part of urgent care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support service-users experiencing a mental health crisis. It offers service-users' care and support in their own homes as an alternative to hospital admission.
CRHTT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission while remaining at home including home visits from our experienced team, with support from doctors and psychology. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to community-based service.
As an Urgent Care Practitioner in CRHTT you will work in partnership with service users with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.
You will be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of top-quality care to service users. This will include working alongside service users, carers, families and partner agencies. You will be providing specialist clinical advice, conducting clinical procedures, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments to progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
You will also be involved in providing clinical supervision to junior staff and students. This will include acting as shift co-ordinator, as well as allocating and delegating tasks to colleagues. You will be expected to liaise with other services and external agencies to triage referrals to the service and gatekeep inpatient admissions. This is a genuine opportunity to develop your leadership skills if you are looking for career progression in the future
We are committed to ensuring that mental health care is co-ordinated wherever possible and delivered in a person-centred, compassionate, and supportive way.
Mental health care should promote safety and wellbeing while addressing social care needs and ensuring equality and fairness for all. It should be needs-led, outcome-focused, responsive and delivered in a way that empowers people to build on their strengths, promotes recovery, and supports families and carers.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Your benefits:
Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
Free parking on-site
Access to a host of discount schemes
A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
Excellent NHS Pension
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Registered with governing body
Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems
Experience of supervising staff
Experience of prioritising a range of needs
Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to patients with a variety of health problems
Experience of working consultatively with professionals
Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
Experience of working within the CPA process
Understanding of clinical governance
Knowledge of impact physical health has on mental health
Working knowledge of Mental Health Act
Please apply using the link in this advert
