Home Treatment Team Advanced Practitioner

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Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in London is seeking an Advanced Practitioner for the Lewisham Home Treatment Team. This role is integral to clinical leadership, providing high-quality care and support within a multi-disciplinary team. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in mental health and crisis management, as well as relevant professional qualifications. The position offers a competitive salary with benefits including flexible working and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Subsidised London accommodation

On-site nursery

NHS discounts

Career development opportunities

Flexible working options

Counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Long service awards

Season ticket loan

Staff restaurants

Qualifications

• Recognised Professional Qualification in Nursing, Social Work, or Occupational Therapy required.
• Experience in managing crisis situations and providing clinical leadership.
• Evidence of continuing professional development is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a multi-disciplinary team in providing high quality care.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and ensure timely treatment.
• Ensure adherence to Mental Health Act and support service development.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Mental health assessment

Crisis management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Recognised Professional Qualification in Nursing (RMN), Social Work (Dip SW/CQSW) or Occupational Therapy

Post registration qualification in specialty

Masters Degree

Job description

Main area Lewisham Directorate Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent: 37.5 Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full Time 37.5 hours per week) Job ref 334-NUR-7132440-LF

Employer South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site 4 th Floor Ladywell Unit, University Hospital Lewisham Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 01/07/2025 23:59

Home Treatment Team Advanced Practitioner

Band 7

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as an Advanced Practitioner in Lewisham Home Treatment Team playing a crucial role in the clinical leadership of the team, supporting staff to provide a high quality service to service users and carers.

We are looking for a highly experienced and enthusiastic person who has a real passion for mental health and who promotes the highest standards of care in their practice. This is a diverse and challenging role and requires an experienced mental health professional ( a Nurse, OT or Social Worker) who can assess and manage risk in crisis situations and support staff to do the same whilst ensuring that high standards of practice are maintained. The role will involve a substantial level of direct care and support to services users and carers working within the shift pattern of the team as well as providing clinical and professional supervision and supporting service development initiatives within the team. It is vital that you have an excellent understanding of safeguarding and practical experience of how it affects your role and the service users you support.

Main duties of the job

In exchange, you will be working within a highly skilled and knowledgeable multi-disciplinary team who will support you in your development and your ability to deliver the best care you can to our service users. You will also have access to all of the staff benefits that South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has to offer including subsidised London accommodation, on-site nursery, and discounts in a number of high street chains.
The rota for this role includes working weekends and weekdays between the hours of 8am and 10pm (Long Day or 8am-4pm or 2pm-10pm).

Part of our Advanced Practitioners main duties are:

• To ensure least restrictive options are thoroughly considered for all patients presenting to the Liaison Service where admission is being considered.
• To ensure timely assessment of patients who are admitted to an acute ward with a view to enabling discharge at the earliest opportunity.
• To undertake comprehensive psychiatric and risk assessments of service users in line with policy standards
• To ensure capacity is assessed and safe treatment and care is delivered to those who may lack capacity.
• To rapidly and continuously evaluate the patient’s changing condition and response to therapeutic interventions and modify the plan of care for optimal patient outcome.
• To assess high risk or complex patients to provide management advice and appropriate clinical interventions
• To operate within the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act

Working for our organisation

About the location:

The Service is based within the Acute Hospital – University Hospital, Lewisham. Lewisham Home Treatment Team provides a rapid assessment and referral service to patients experiencing mental health difficulties who present to the Emergency Department or the general hospital wards.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career.
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work as an experienced mental health professional (Nurse, OT or Social Worker) who acting within their own professional boundaries will ensure that all possible alternatives to hospital admission have been thoroughly and carefully explored for those patients who present to the Emergency Department or general hospital wards in a mental health crisis. The post holder will provide a trusted, senior assessment and Home Treatment opinion where admission is being considered by the initial assessor. The post holder will also ensure that in the event a patient is admitted to an acute ward timely reviews are undertaken to ensure discharge occurs at the earliest opportunity.

Advanced Practitioners undertake assessments and home visits whilst exhibiting the ability to balance both clinical demands and managerial responsibilities. They will be available shift to shift to consult and take a lead in the treatment of more complex and/or high risk cases demonstrating safe clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment diagnostic skills and effective interventions . The post holder will be able to demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision making process. They will work with the multi-professional team to meet the needs of the service users and provide clinical professional supervision and leadership to the team.

The post holder will need to co-ordinate robust multidisciplinary working and maintain excellent communication and working relationships with all staff across the Home Treatment and Psychiatric Liaison service and the acute wards.

The post holder will provide management support as delegated by the Clinical Services lead, including supervision of staff, team training and service development initiatives. It is expected that the post holder be responsible for organising the roster ensuing safe staffing at all times. They will also be expected to deputise for the Clinical Service Lead in their absence.

Advanced Practitioners are expected to work either the early or late shift making certain that there is always an Advanced Practitioner on duty during the hours of 8am to 10pm 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Recognised Professional Qualification in Nursing (RMN), Social Work (Dip SW/CQSW) or Occupational Therapy
• Post registration qualification in specialty or relevant experience
• Mentorship for RMNs
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Masters Degree

Skills/Abilities

• Ability to analyse complex issues/problems, gather relevant information and exercise sound judgement in reaching the most appropriate conclusions.
• Strong commitment to improving patient services with a clear focus on achieving performance goals
• Competence in provision of clinical supervision/ people management skills
• Teaching and mentorship within a clinical setting

Knowledge/Experience

• Experience and knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit
• Experience in managing complaints and quality assurance
• Experience of working within acute and crisis services
• Comprehensive experience at local leadership level within speciality
• Experience of working within home treatment

Other

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation and influencing skills demonstrated by the ability to engage others
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Full valid UK Driving Licence

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.