Job summary
We are looking for
a dynamic and enthusiastic Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to join
the Specialist Team Early Psychosis (STEP) based at St. Johns Court, Exmouth, Devon and Wonford House, Exeter, Devon.
This team provides early intervention for people between the ages of 14-65 years, who may be experiencing a first episode of psychosis.
We provide
specialist assessments over an extended period of time and provide specialist
evidenced based interventions for those confirmed as having a psychosis for a
period of up to three years. These include Family Interventions, Cognitive and
Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis and Employment support, alongside the usual
Care Coordination. Physical Health monitoring and interventions are a
developing part of the teams work.
There is the need to contribute to wider service development including education of other agencies on First Episode Psychosis
We will support you to learn the skills you need in the role. In return, you will need to be motivated, flexible and eager to learn. You will be supported and supervised by the Team Manager.
This post will
be working primarily in the East Devon & Exeter areas.
Main duties of the job
- Providing complex assessment and care planning for individuals and their families/carers experiencing first episode psychosis.
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Engage service users and carers assertively in the community.
- Develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with service users and their families and carers and other services to prevent hospital admission.
- Offer a range of NICE evidence based interventions
- To offer proactive risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce disabling effects of psychosis and enable full and sustained recovery
- Provide psycho-education regarding first episode psychosis to service users and families.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships and networks with colleagues within mental health services, primary care and other partner agencies including physical health checks and interventions
- Ensure basic needs are addressed i.e. housing, income, support in accessing education/training etc.
- Provide interventions and work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid problems with substance use/misuse.
- Engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning and provide and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users' ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.
- To support medication concordance.
- To support physical health monitoring.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader Employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health difficulties and their carers. This will include recovery co-ordination (design and co-ordination of treatment packages that are personalised and evaluated in line with payment by results). To provide statutory Adult Social Care, Care Management functions (assessment, care planning and reviewing). The liaison with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role.
The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other members and participating in team and service development, and evaluation.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationship Skills
- Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
Impart highly complex and sensitive information to :
- Patients and families/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review
- Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well coordinated care
- Primary care teams regarding client care
- External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g.: voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc.
- Service user/carer groups
- Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
- Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires.
- Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex to and from individuals and their families/carers, where there may be barriers to understanding.
- Provide a high standards of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards
- Participate in and chair clinical meetings, this will include CPA and non-CPA reviews, professional meetings, and clinical risk meetings.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring whilst employing negotiating techniques to gain co-operation from highly complex individuals.
- Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies.
- Facilitate fair access to social care services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability
Analytical and Judgemental Skills
- Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options.
- Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and diagnosis which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence based and payment by results.
- Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of individuals needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to formulate the most appropriate clinical plan.
Planning and Organisational Skills
- Organise and facilitate complex meetings, these will include: CPA and non-CPA professional and risk meetings.
- Responsible for managing their own workload to ensure the needs to the individuals who use our services are met taking the wider needs of the team into consideration.
- Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.
- Plan and organise individuals packages of care and ensure that reviews are held within the required time frames, for example Section 117, Funding Panels and CPA.
- Plan own workload and the workload of junior colleagues to ensure that care is provided in the most high quality and cost efficient manner, prioritise and make adjustments as appropriate.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
- Ensure that caseload is well managed and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards and recovery co-ordination (CPA and non-CPA).
- Understand social factors that impact upon mental health.
- Develop and deliver care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation.
- Ensure that all interventions have clear outcomes and that these are taken into consideration when sourcing the resources to best meet the individuals needs. This will include enabling individuals to take up Direct Payments and offering the person as much choice and control of resources as appropriate.
- Ensure that all social care packages are reviewed within the relevant timescales and focus on integration within existing community resources where possible.
- Deliver services using a recovery and strengths approach where the needs of the individual and their carers are held as central and their involvement is proactively encouraged.
- Deliver care in line with evidence based practice and employ engagement and therapeutic skills that are appropriate to the clinical situation presented.
- Responsibility for triaging individuals and signposting to the most appropriate services.
- Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in relation to the care of individuals.
- Enable communication and engagement of individuals and their carers to ensure that they have a voice about the services they receive and how these are developed. This may include engagement of advocacy services.
- Ensure that appropriate action is taken to safeguarding adults and children. This may include providing and receiving highly complex and sensitive information in relation to safeguarding adult and children work, co-ordinating and chairing safeguarding meetings and implementing relevant care plans.
- Ensure that assessment and treatment plans are holistic, outcome focused and take into account the physical health and social needs of the individual, including input of significant others.
- Ensure the monitoring and review of mental health medication taking into consideration interactions with physical health needs.
- Assess the eligibility of the person for services including financial maximisation, debt advice, budgetary management, FAB/FACS assessment.
- Ensuring timely and accurate documentation of all clinical activity in line with professional guidance and best practice.
- Practice in a way that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health difficulties and their carers. This will include recovery co-ordination (design and co-ordination of treatment packages that are personalised and evaluated in line with payment by results). To provide statutory Adult Social Care, Care Management functions (assessment, care planning and reviewing). The liaison with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role.
The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other members and participating in team and service development, and evaluation.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationship Skills
- Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
Impart highly complex and sensitive information to :
- Patients and families/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review
- Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well coordinated care
- Primary care teams regarding client care
- External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g.: voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc.
- Service user/carer groups
- Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
- Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires.
- Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex to and from individuals and their families/carers, where there may be barriers to understanding.
- Provide a high standards of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards
- Participate in and chair clinical meetings, this will include CPA and non-CPA reviews, professional meetings, and clinical risk meetings.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring whilst employing negotiating techniques to gain co-operation from highly complex individuals.
- Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies.
- Facilitate fair access to social care services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability
Analytical and Judgemental Skills
- Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options.
- Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and diagnosis which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence based and payment by results.
- Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of individuals needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to formulate the most appropriate clinical plan.
Planning and Organisational Skills
- Organise and facilitate complex meetings, these will include: CPA and non-CPA professional and risk meetings.
- Responsible for managing their own workload to ensure the needs to the individuals who use our services are met taking the wider needs of the team into consideration.
- Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.
- Plan and organise individuals packages of care and ensure that reviews are held within the required time frames, for example Section 117, Funding Panels and CPA.
- Plan own workload and the workload of junior colleagues to ensure that care is provided in the most high quality and cost efficient manner, prioritise and make adjustments as appropriate.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
- Ensure that caseload is well managed and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards and recovery co-ordination (CPA and non-CPA).
- Understand social factors that impact upon mental health.
- Develop and deliver care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation.
- Ensure that all interventions have clear outcomes and that these are taken into consideration when sourcing the resources to best meet the individuals needs. This will include enabling individuals to take up Direct Payments and offering the person as much choice and control of resources as appropriate.
- Ensure that all social care packages are reviewed within the relevant timescales and focus on integration within existing community resources where possible.
- Deliver services using a recovery and strengths approach where the needs of the individual and their carers are held as central and their involvement is proactively encouraged.
- Deliver care in line with evidence based practice and employ engagement and therapeutic skills that are appropriate to the clinical situation presented.
- Responsibility for triaging individuals and signposting to the most appropriate services.
- Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in relation to the care of individuals.
- Enable communication and engagement of individuals and their carers to ensure that they have a voice about the services they receive and how these are developed. This may include engagement of advocacy services.
- Ensure that appropriate action is taken to safeguarding adults and children. This may include providing and receiving highly complex and sensitive information in relation to safeguarding adult and children work, co-ordinating and chairing safeguarding meetings and implementing relevant care plans.
- Ensure that assessment and treatment plans are holistic, outcome focused and take into account the physical health and social needs of the individual, including input of significant others.
- Ensure the monitoring and review of mental health medication taking into consideration interactions with physical health needs.
- Assess the eligibility of the person for services including financial maximisation, debt advice, budgetary management, FAB/FACS assessment.
- Ensuring timely and accurate documentation of all clinical activity in line with professional guidance and best practice.
- Practice in a way that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional mental health qualification e.g. RMN, Social Work Degree or equivalent, BSc/Diploma in OT, SROT, Chartered Clinical Psychologist, ENB 811/812 or CPN Degree.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism
- Clinical Supervision qualification
- Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of managing a extensive and complex caseload of clients with a range of complex mental health problems.
- Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector. Providing clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
- Participation in user involvement in services.
- Experience of delivering model based psychological therapy
- Mentoring students in line with professional requirements
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Able to plan creatively to maximise effectiveness of care plans, including complex multi-agency care plans
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to manage own time and that of the teams.
- Ability to work flexibly.
- Ability to be mobile across a geographical area.
- Excellent clinical assessment skills.
- Ability to manage change in a positive manner.
- Excellent clinical assessment skills.
- Ability to manage change in a positive manner.
Knowledge
Essential
- An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements.
- CPA Process
Desirable
- Awareness of community structures and social care management responsibilities
- Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of managing a extensive and complex caseload of clients with a range of complex mental health problems.
- Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
- Providing clinical supervision.
- Mentoring students in line with professional requirements
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
- Participation in user involvement in services.
- Experience of delivering model based psychological therapy
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Communication and Working Relationship Skills
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
- Able to produce well written reports.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
- Essential
- Essential
- Essential
- Analytical & Judgemental Skills
- Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
- Ability to assess and develop plans to manage risk.
- Essential
- Essential
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional mental health qualification e.g. RMN, Social Work Degree or equivalent, BSc/Diploma in OT, SROT, Chartered Clinical Psychologist, ENB 811/812 or CPN Degree.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism
- Clinical Supervision qualification
- Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of managing a extensive and complex caseload of clients with a range of complex mental health problems.
- Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector. Providing clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
- Participation in user involvement in services.
- Experience of delivering model based psychological therapy
- Mentoring students in line with professional requirements
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Able to plan creatively to maximise effectiveness of care plans, including complex multi-agency care plans
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to manage own time and that of the teams.
- Ability to work flexibly.
- Ability to be mobile across a geographical area.
- Excellent clinical assessment skills.
- Ability to manage change in a positive manner.
- Excellent clinical assessment skills.
- Ability to manage change in a positive manner.
Knowledge
Essential
- An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements.
- CPA Process
Desirable
- Awareness of community structures and social care management responsibilities
- Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of managing a extensive and complex caseload of clients with a range of complex mental health problems.
- Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
- Providing clinical supervision.
- Mentoring students in line with professional requirements
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
- Participation in user involvement in services.
- Experience of delivering model based psychological therapy
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Communication and Working Relationship Skills
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
- Able to produce well written reports.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
- Essential
- Essential
- Essential
- Analytical & Judgemental Skills
- Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
- Ability to assess and develop plans to manage risk.
- Essential
- Essential
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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