Band 7 Senior Practitioner (Older People's Mental Health) - Swindon

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To offer older adult clinical leadership and expertise to teams.

2. To provide clinical leadership to ensure where appropriate the service will work effectively alongside other services, to manage risk and prevent hospital admission for service users with the most complex and acute needs.

3. To undertake and support the specialist ongoing assessment of functioning for service users with the most complex and needs. This may include:

a) The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the ACE-III

b) Mental state

c) Impact of culture and diversity

d) Functional needs

e) The needs of family and carer

f) Evaluation of risk

g) Physical health

h) Complicating factors

i) The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change

j) Social care needs

k) Safeguarding and public protection

l) Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act

4. To be responsible for, both individually and within the team, the development, delivery and review of comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

5. To plan, deliver, and evaluate defined advanced specialist interventions within sphere of expertise, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads.

6. To oversee and deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

7. To offer support to team managers, ensuring the service develops and maintains excellent clinical standards for older adult service delivery.

8. To oversee and ensure, across the team, there are effective risk management plans and strategies, for service users and carers, taking account of risks to service users, carers, the organisation, staff and the public.

9. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible, across the service for facilitating and ensuring, the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.

10. To develop and maintain, good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

11. Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of people/services/ agencies about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing developing or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carer and the service.

12. To represent the organisation in a range of settings, presenting, facilitating or explaining as appropriate and dealing with any questions or difficulties as they arise

13. To support the team manager in developing systems and processes for the effective management and monitoring of the team caseload, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, and service users and carer receive the appropriate level of service.

14. To be responsible for regularly monitoring and evaluating treatment programmes for service users and carers, making appropriate clinical/practice decision in regard to ongoing needs, and offering supervision to others.

15. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by developing and reviewing with others protection plans and management strategies, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

16. To provide a leadership role within the team and provide cover for the manager and colleagues as required.

17. To work with team managers to ensure the continuing improvements to the service in line with organisational goals.

18. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

19. To participate in, and deliver as required, management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

20. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for the development of others, both practitioners, and those in training by making use of and providing, effective feedback, specialist therapeutic clinical supervision, coaching and appraisal.

21. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

22. Promote monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

23. Work with team managers to develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

24. Lead, practices which enable effective team working.

25. To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.

Most challenging part of this role:

Being an inspirational leader, practicing and sharing excellent clinical practice while also motivating others to deliver a high quality service. Balancing competing demands across the range of key result areas, keeping the needs of service user and carers at the heart of service delivery. Able to challenge clinical practice effectively to ensure that service users receive the most appropriate treatment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Nurse (RMN), or Registered General Nurse (RGN) with substantial MH experience

Desirable

• Further relevant post-registration qualifications including leadership training
• Non medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post-registration experience gained working in front-line services, undertaking assessments and delivering therapeutic interventions including in the most complex clinical cases
• Significant experience of complex assessment, risk management and care planning in complex need Experience of working effectively with families and carers.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to colleagues at independent practitioner level, ensuring complex interventions are delivered safely.

Desirable

• Experience of managing others

Skills

Essential

• Substantial experience of supporting older people with mental health needs in community settings.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to prioritise, especially when working under pressure
• Understanding of the roles of MDT in mental health care

Other requirements

Essential

• Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Sandalwood Court

Highworth Road

Swindon

SN3 4WF

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)