Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Mental Health Practitioner - Integrated Urgent Care

This is an exciting opportunity to work for South East Coast Ambulance service (SECAmb). We would like to recruit enthusiastic and experienced Mental Health Practitioners to join our Integrated Urgent Care Team.

The applicant will have experience of working in Mental Health Services and be ready to work with people in urgent and crisis mental health situations.

Applicants must have extensive experience of working in mental health settings with a minimum of 2 years experience within an appropriate service. The role may particularly suit those applicants who have previously worked in Mental Health liaison, acute wards, crisis teams or assessment teams.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our Trust values:

• Taking Pride
• Striving for continuous improvement
• Acting with integrity
• Demonstrating compassion and respect
• Assuming responsibilities

We would like to hear from Registered Mental Health Nurses, Occupational therapists, and Social Workers with a strong background in supporting acute and crisis Mental Health.

As an applicant for this role, you are urged to demonstrate within your supporting statement a combination of evidence that reflects your competence to meet the job specification and provide examples of how SECAmb values are an integral part of the way you have and will continue to deliver service.

Main duties of the job

This is a challenging but rewarding role, offering an exciting opportunity to nurses, occupational therapists or social workers who have strong assessment and therapeutic skills. You will need the ability to work autonomously whilst still contributing to the team as a whole. If you enjoy the challenge and stimulus of working under pressure and are able to remain calm in quickly changing circumstances, you will be well suited to this role. If successful you will be working within our 999 & 111 contact centres undertaking remote consultations over the phone.

You will be responsible for providing mental health consultation, assessment and outcome based interventions to meet patient needs.

As a Mental Health Practitioneryou will undertake clinical assessments with patients using a clinical consultation tool.

Mental Health Practitioners will ensure we deliver expert support and advice to our patients over the phone, as well as offering clinical oversight, guidance, and leadership to our EOC and Contact Centre staff and frontline responding resources.

As part of your role you will be required to provide peer audit and feedback to colleagues helping to drive and support personal improvement in order to maintain clinical competency and practice.

Training - 2 weeks full time Pathways Clinical Consultation System (PaCCS) course including mentoring on the use of systems and ways of working.The Training is Full Time whether you are applying for a Full- Time or Part-Time Position.

About us

You will be required to:

• Harness your wealth of healthcare experience to assess and lead patients to the correct health outcome.
• Work quickly and accurately with resilience under pressure
• Be available to work a full range of shifts, including out of hours and bank holidays.
• Use your excellent communication skills to provide advice to patients with the most appropriate advice and treatment, based on their assessment.
• Record data quickly and accurately on the computer

We offer a robust induction programme through clinical supervision, mentoring and teamwork.