Senior Mental Health Practitioner NHS 111 option 2

Pennine Care NHS FT; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Flexible working

Continued Professional Development

Health and wellbeing services

Staff discounts

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within the NHS 111 MH option in Greater Manchester. The role involves receiving escalated calls, delivering immediate telephone support, expert advice and signposting to the most appropriate service.

The service operates 24/7 with shifts across a 24-hour pattern. You will monitor trends, formulate care plans with assistants, lead attender management, and collaborate with CAS, GM Police, NWAS, and local

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience in crisis care and crisis management.
• Knowledge of current mental health legislation and safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Monitor calls and respond to repeated contacts from service users.
• Formulate care plans for regular callers in collaboration with practitioners.
• Lead frequent attender management meetings and review care plans.
• Collate data on trends and share insights with the team.
• Collaborate with external agencies to support patient journeys.

Skills

Registered Mental Health Nurse

NMC Registration

Crisis care experience

Mental health legislation knowledge

Degree in Nursing

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent

Job description

NHS 111 MH option aims to make it quicker and easier for service users and carers to get the right support and advice they need for their mental health by:

Listening and help callers to work through immediate problems

Advising callers on how to access therapeutic and clinical support from their current care team following their care plan

Providing information about other services and resources including self-help materials and web based support that may be helpful.Signposting callers to other services or resources.

The role of the Senior Mental Health Practitioner is to receive calls escalated to them from the First Responders and Assistant Practitioners, and be able to provide immediate support or assistance via telephone support, expert advice and sign post service users to the most appropriate service.

The service operates 24/7 and practitioners are expected to work within a 24 hour shift pattern.

Main duties of the job

- To monitor calls that are received into the service for trends and respond to repeated calls from an individual appropriately, which may be liaising with open teams to formulate a consistent approach, boundary setting with regular callers, management planning abusive or inappropriate callers.

- To formulate care plans for regular callers needing a structured response in collaboration with the assistant practitioners who will manage the calls.

- To be the lead for frequent attender management group, meeting with the assistant practitioners to identify, review and clinically assess frequent attenders, formulate and review care plans and identify learning to share with the wider team.

- Collate and present frequent attender data with respect to trends and outcomes.

- Work with callers presenting as complex or high risk that are passed to them by the First Responders and Assistant practitioners.

- To work collaboratively with other agencies including CAS, GM Police, NWAS, Local authority to share relevant clinical information in order for the patient journey to be identify & an alternative management plan identified.

- To understand how/why an individual package of care for service users with mental health problems, including signposting where necessary.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Job responsibilities

Please find attached job description for more detailed information and the main responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• NMC Registration
• Post Registration Experience
• Experience of working with individuals who present to mental health services in crisis and have symptoms of mental health illness
• Understanding of current mental health legislation, Safeguarding and Child Protection Legislation
• Knowledge of psychosocial assessment and risk assessment / management processes
• Educated to degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Adult acute mental health work experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum, pro rata