Crisis Pathway Mental Health Practitioner | East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Bedford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Crisis Pathway Mental Health Practitioner to join the 24/7 CRHTT in Bedford. You will assess adults in mental health crisis, create formulations, manage risk, and coordinate home treatment or crisis house care.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, provide gatekeeping, mindful safeguarding, and facilitate safe discharge from hospital where appropriate, using psychosocial interventions to support recovery and reduce readmissions.

Responsibilities

• Assess adults in mental health crisis from multiple sources, including GPs and hospital wards, and provide home treatment where appropriate.
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and update risk at each contact.
• Provide expert advice on management, treatment interventions and diagnosis during mental health crisis to minimise risks and promote recovery.
• Support acute hospital wards and facilitate early discharge or leave, reducing length of stay when possible.
• Use psycho-social interventions to improve mental health outcomes and enable service user-led recovery and independence.

Job description

Crisis Pathway Mental Health Practitioner | East London NHS Foundation Trust

The CRHTT and Kelvin Grove (Crisis House) operates a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week service for people aged 18 years and above who are experiencing a mental health crisis or requiring support to be discharged from the acute wards. The service will maintain focus on identifying, assessing and care planning for service users.

The post holder will be expected to be self-motivating with the ability to demonstrate accurate formulations of mental state, risk and need for people in a mental health crisis and take into account medical, social & cultural factors and referring on to other disciplines in the team or other agencies as appropriate within the given time frames for the service. In particular you will be expected to assess and update risk on each contact and be fully aware of the safeguarding concerns.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

• To work within a multidisciplinary mental health team, assessing from various sources including GPs, CRHTT and the acute admission wards and providing home treatment for patients accepted on to our caseload and alternative to home treatment via the crisis house.
• To be a part of the assessment or the home treatment team within the Crisis Team.
• To provide Gatekeeping and feedback based on the CRHTT criteria.
• To provide comprehensive risk assessments incorporating baseline physical assessments.
• Provide expert advice on the management, treatment interventions and diagnosis of patients experiencing a mental health crisis with the aim of minimising risks, ensuring safe care and promote recovery.
• Provide support to acute hospital wards and facilitate early discharge of patients or support them while on leave and reduce length of stay for patients in hospital.
• To use a range of psycho-social interventions to improve mental health outcomes for patients
• To reduce re-admissions to the acute hospitals by facilitating client education and service user led recovery and independence as well as longer term support.
• To provide seamless care from the GP or ward to community for those patients under our service.
• To act on a regular basis as a shift co-ordinator assigning colleagues work for the day.
• Be aware of and adhere to our lone worker policy.
• When required supervise and facilitate the administration of medication.
• Participate in the multi-disciplinary team meetings as well as team and business meetings.
• Topromotesocialinclusion,communityaccessand participationthroughthe provision ofclientcare.

Where appropriate and withauthorisation, act as an advocate for patients and carers

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