Access Team Practitioner

Navigo Health and Social Care CIC; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local mental health service provider in Grimsby is seeking an Access Team Practitioner to join their integrated Access Team. The role involves crisis assessment and case management, requiring at least two years of experience in mental health settings. You will provide support in a dynamic environment, including training junior staff. A commitment to quality monitoring and partnership with service users is crucial. This position offers competitive benefits including relocation support.

Benefits

£2,500 Golden Hello Payment

Up to £4,000 Relocation Package

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years' post-registration experience.
• Experience with severe and enduring mental illness in acute settings.
• Knowledge of relapse prevention and psychosocial interventions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial assessments and implement care plans.
• Supervise junior colleagues and deliver training.
• Manage crisis referrals and provide telephone support.

Skills

Crisis management

Communication skills

Teamwork

Clinical assessment

Education

UK RMN/RNMH/SW qualification

Post qualification award in health/social care

Job description

Awarded for this vacancy - £2,500 Golden Hello Payment. Apply now and if you are successfully recruited you will receive up to £2,500. Terms and Conditions Apply.

Up to £4,000 Relocation Package available for this position. Terms and Conditions Apply.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our integrated Access Teamwithin Navigo. Whether you have experience working within Crisis/Liaison/SPAservices, or have experience in another mental health setting and are lookingfor your next challenge - this role plays a pivotal part in improving the livesof the people using our services,supporting them to access the most appropriate service(s) for theirneeds. There will be numerous opportunities to develop your skills, undertaketraining in a variety of evidence-based interventions including the innovativeCAMS programme (Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality). If you are enthusiastic, flexible, hardworking and ready for a challenge, we invite you to apply.

Main duties of the job

The Access Team Practitioner will work within the integrated Access Team,covering Crisis, Hospital Liaison and SPA. You will be responsible for initialassessment, implementation, planning, and evaluation of care. Assessment ofrisk along with subsequent management and safety planning is a significant partof this role, including face-to-face and over the telephone. Covering a 24/7 rota, the post-holder willprovide essential mental health assessment and support, whilst sometimesoverseeing and supervising other areas of acute services and acting as sitelead. The role will entail both teamworking and autonomous working practices, together with personal responsibilityfor caseload management from first contact to discharge. You will be an inspiring supervisor ofjunior colleagues and students, also delivering training/information to theteam and wider services. The post-holderwill work closely within the multi-disciplinary and inpatient team along withcarers/family members.

About us

Hello!

Weare Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshires mental health andwell-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental healthservices to the NHS and beyond.

Thewhole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for ourown family to use.

Weoffer a range of mental health services, including acute and communityfacilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adultsinpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and anoutstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Rankedas one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companiestop 100 large company list.

Asa social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have alsodeveloped income-generating commercially viable businesses that providetraining, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby GardenCentre.

Workingat Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but wereally mean it.

Welike to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.

Comeand Join us !

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Job responsibilities

To develop and take an activerole in quality monitoring of the service, including leading of researchprojects and audit activity with the aim of improving the service/service area.

Partnership with service usersand carers is integral to these activities.

The post-holder will be ableto evaluate and review research, using this in tandem with the appropriatelegislation, policies and evidence-based interventions to best meet the needsof individuals using services.

Role model the values,attitude, conduct and language commensurate of a clinical professional tocolleagues, people using services and other people involved in the delivery ofcare.

Work within an environmentthat involves taking responsibility for the use of a significant number ofresources, including four crisis beds, access to in-patient services,processing of referrals and allocation of activity to achieve rapid response tocrisis referrals.

Plan and organise workloadsfor staff within the area to include allocation of staff, planning patient careand groups etc.

Supervise the day-to-day careof their service area, ensuring staff are designated to appropriate areas.

To be involved in therecruitment process, along with appraisals and supervision.

Be involved in the provisionof internal training sessions and presentations.

Provide specific training ormentorship to students.

Play an active role in thedevelopment of the service and the team.

Provide education to servicesusers and carers with regard to living with mental ill health, and gainingaccess services.

Provide high quality care in avariety of settings, including at Harrison House, DPoW, other services and inthe community.

Be able to support individualswith complex needs in a person-centred, trauma-informed and compassionatemanner.

Maintain accurate records,both written and computerised to a standard that reflects the level of clinicalassessment, observation and intervention.This may involve the use of specialised psychometric tools to complementthe assessment and evaluation of client care.

Implement holistic,biopsychosocial interventions.

Liaise with community-basedservices and resources such as education, social security, employment, housing,Police and voluntary sector organisations to facilitate the delivery of themost appropriate and best possible care for the individual client, carers and their families.

Discuss complex issuessurrounding risk management and plan care accordingly, and keeping the relevantpeople informed.

Respond to client crisis in anon-judgemental, positive and pro-active manner.

Develop clear care pathways,including methods to reduce the risk of further crisis developing.

Work in a manner which isflexible according to client need.

Provide telephone support topeople accessing services, carers, outside agencies or clinicians who requireinformation, advice or crisis intervention.

Exercise sound clinicaljudgement and manage competing priorities and opinions.

Assess complex mental healthconditions, then to develop and implement care packages in a variety ofsettings.

If required (or at theirrequest) undertake Mental Health Act Training (AMHPs) and if qualified takepart in the AMHP rota.

Complete triage andassessment, whether over the telephone, face-to-face, on-site or elsewhere.

Person Specification

Experience

• Two years' post-registration level
• Two years' experience working with mental illness of a severe and enduring nature in an acute or crisis setting
• Knowledge of relapse prevention
• Psychosocial interventions
• Use of clinical assessment measures

Knowledge

• Proven and advanced skills in the following areas:
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Approaches to risk assessment
• Communication and liaison with a range of others.
• Management and change management
• Clinical abilities

Qualifications

• A current professional qualification (UK RMN/RNMH/SW or equivalent, please provide registration or PIN number).
• Evidence of post graduate training/studies.
• Post qualification award in health/social care at degree or equivalent level.
• Clinical Supervision Training.
• Nurse prescribing.

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.