Community Mental Health Practitioner - Brent Cmht
Central And North West London Nhs Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist to join the Brent CMHT. You will assess health and social care needs, provide supervision to team members, and contribute to MDT activities including duty rosters.
The role involves coordinating with GP practices to improve pathways and delivering NICE-concordant care within CNWL policies and professional frameworks.
Qualifications
- Significant experience in clinical mental health care and assessment.
- Experience with people experiencing serious ongoing mental health problems.
- Qualified Mental Health Nurse or OT with current professional registration.
Responsibilities
- Undertake initial and comprehensive assessment of health and social care needs.
- Provide supervision to staff and students on placement with the team.
- Carry out MDT activities including duty and clinic rota within professional scope.
- Develop communication between Mental Health Services and General Practice teams to improve care pathways.
Skills
Education
Job description
We are looking for team players who are passionate about the well-being and recovery and who able to place service users at the centre of care. The service operates from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday and the post holder will participate in the team duty and assessment systems. The team is committed to working with an individual's strengths in order to maximise autonomy and to deliver NICE concordant care for all service users on our caseload.
The Team serves the population of Brent, a diverse and vibrant Borough, and is located in Brent with excellent transport links. It is an established team with a friendly, supportive culture. There is a visible and supportive management team and a strong emphasis on training and professional development opportunities.
Brent is a place of contrast and a destination for thousands of British and international visitors every year. Home of the iconic Wembley Stadium, the world famous Wembley Arena, the new London Designer Outlet and the spectacular Swaminarayan Hindu Temple, it provides a stage for cultural, sporting and religious events of national and international importance.
Please see the person specification for essential criteria.
If you are a looking for a new challenge to make a real difference supporting the recovery of adults in Brent experiencing mental health crises then this is the job for you.
- The post holder will be a member of Brent CMHT which also leads on primary care mental health liaison and link working.
- Responsible for undertaking initial and comprehensive assessment of health and social care needs alone or with colleagues and feedback to Multi-Disciplinary Team
- Provide supervision to an identified group of staff and students on placement with the team.
- Carry out MDT activities including being on duty and clinic rota as appropriate and within sphere of profession
- They will develop and maintain effective communication strategies between Mental Health Services and General Practice Teams to improve care pathways.
- The post holder will be required to work within CNWL policies and procedures, professional and legal framework upholding the values and ethos of the organisation.
- To have a clear understanding and practice within framework of one's Code of Professional Conduct, Adult and Child protection protocols, Mental Health and Capacity Acts
- To provide regular ongoing contact with GP Practices as part of the post holder’s link worker role, this includes developing an improved understanding of the role and function of the CMHT.
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The Team serves the population of Brent, a diverse and vibrant Borough, and is located in Brent with excellent transport links. It is an established team with a friendly, supportive culture. There is a visible and supportive management team and a strong emphasis on training and professional development opportunities.
The successful applicant will be in contact with patients or service users.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Band: Band 6
Salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 333-J-BR-0882
- Significant Experience of working in a clinical area providing mental and physical health care and assessment.
- Demonstrable experience of working with people who experience serious on-going mental health problems
- Knowledge and experience of working with people prescribed Clozapine or Long Acting Injection (LAI) medication, medication effects, side effects and patient management.
- Experience of working with people in the community.
- Previous experience of in a clozapine or depot clinic.
- Health promotion experience.
- Qualified Mental Health Nurse or OT
- Current registration with professional body
- Mentorship qualification
- Non-medical prescribing
- Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
- Empowering and working in partnership
- Safeguarding and advocacy
- Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
- Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the people they are working
- Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
- Infection control and aseptic Non-Touch Technique
- Manual Handling patients
- Obtaining Consent
- Medicines management and administration
- Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
- Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
- Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working
- Coordinate work allocation and shifts (if appropriate)
- Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
- Mentor, teach and support others in the team
- Supervise others in the team
- Facilitate appraisals
- Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Able to maintain electronic patient records, use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing, use of electronic communication platforms TEAMS / ZOOM
- Knowledge of Cardio Metabolic risks in clients with Severe and Enduring mental health conditions. LESTER Tool and NHS Plan.
- Knowledge of substance misuse and associated risks.
- Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
- Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence
- Be a role model and embody CNWL's values by being: caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
- Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
- Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
- Able to work efficiently in the community
- Holder of full UK Driving Licence/Car Driver
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer's website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work
Operational Manager: Adenike Bolade, adenike.bolade@nhs.net, 07484452280
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