Home Treatment Team Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust operates a Croydon Home Treatment Team delivering 24/7 crisis assessment and intensive home treatment to prevent hospital admission where possible and to facilitate earlier discharge.

The post holder will work as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist providing care from history taking, through assessment and treatment, to evaluation for service users in crisis, and will also support carers within the home

Qualifications

• A Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with clinical background is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide community/home environment-based support to service users in crisis to promote recovery.
• Support carers of service users receiving home treatment and work within a multi-professional team.

Job description

Croydon Home Treatment Team is a crisis service that provides assessment and intensive treatment to clients in their own home as an alternative to psychiatric admission. It provides 24hr, 7 day a week, crisis assessment and intensive home treatment to patients with the aim of preventing in-patient admission where possible or if admission is required facilitating earlier discharge.

The post holder will provide community/home environment-based support to service users with mental health needs who are in crisis, to promote their recovery. It will also involve supporting the carers of service users receiving home treatment. The role will involve working with clients who have a wide range of mental health problems in a culturally diverse borough. The postholder will work within the multi-professional team in implementing, evaluating, and delivering high quality care and treatment to service users and carers.

Communications And Working Relationships

• Multi-disciplinary Team - daily
• Service Users and Carers - daily
• Management Team - as required
• Head of Profession – as required
• Inpatient, Liaison and Community Teams - regularly
• GP (General Practitioners) - regularly
• Children and Families Services - as required
• Other agencies - as required

A Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with an established clinical background that has successfully completed a period of academic education and clinical supervision to be competent against the relevant competency requirements for a Home Treatment Team Practitioner. The post holder may be required to work across different Trust sites according to the needs of the Home Treatment Service Line.

The Trust Home Treatment Teams provide 24hr, 7-day a week, crisis assessment and intensive home treatment to patients with the aim of preventing in- patient admission where possible or if admission is required, facilitating earlier discharge.

The post holder will work as a Registered Mental Health, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, who, acting within their own professional boundaries, will provide care for presenting service users from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ehsan Kanan Job title: Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 020 3228 0356