Mental Health Practitioner

NHS Jobs; Aldershot; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Aldershot, Hampshire, is seeking a clinician to lead the clinical management of a care package for an individual accessing our services. The role involves coordinating and monitoring person-centered healthcare with complex clinical decisions, delivering CBT-based therapy, and working within the MDT to assess and plan care.

The post requires maintaining professional boundaries, ensuring accurate documentation, and supporting clients' wellbeing through therapeutic activities and

Responsibilities

• Lead the clinical management of a care package to an individual who uses our services.
• Coordinate and monitor delivery of person-centered healthcare with complex clinical decision making.
• Deliver individual and group therapy using CBT skills.
• Work as part of the MDT in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in health.

Job description

Location: Hospital Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire,, GU11 1AY

Key Responsibilities To lead the clinical management of a care package to an individual who uses our services. To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person centered healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate. To deliver individual and group therapy utilizing CBT skills. To work as a member of the MDT in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in people who use our services health. To ensure provision of the necessary physical care to help people who use our services i.e.: personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, manual handling, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations. To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these. To ensure provision of therapeutic activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries. To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery. To ensure prescribed physical observations are undertaken as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately Communication To accurately record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with SABP record keeping policy. To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others. To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures. To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to People who use our services. To communicate with people in a manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background Please refer to JD for more details!