Urgent Care Practitioner

Job description

Job summary

We have an opportunity for Band 6 Urgent Care Practitioner to join to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) at Langley Green Hospital in Crawley, West Sussex.We would particularly welcome applications from qualified Occupational Therapists and / or Social Workers.

CRHTT is a part of urgent care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support service-users experiencing a mental health crisis. It offers service-users' care and support in their own homes as an alternative to hospital admission.

CRHTT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission while remaining at home including home visits from our experienced team, with support from doctors and psychology. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to community-based service.

Main duties of the job

As an Urgent Care Practitioner in CRHTT you will work in partnership with service users with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.

You will be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of top-quality care to service users. This will include working alongside service users, carers, families and partner agencies. You will be providing specialist clinical advice, conducting clinical procedures, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments to progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

You will also be involved in providing clinical supervision to junior staff and students. This will include acting as shift co-ordinator, as well as allocating and delegating tasks to colleagues. You will be expected to liaise with other services and external agencies to triage referrals to the service and gatekeep inpatient admissions. This is a genuine opportunity to develop your leadership skills if you are looking for career progression in the future

About us

We are committed to ensuring that mental health care is co-ordinated wherever possible and delivered in a person-centred, compassionate, and supportive way.

Mental health care should promote safety and wellbeing while addressing social care needs and ensuring equality and fairness for all. It should be needs-led, outcome-focused, responsive and delivered in a way that empowers people to build on their strengths, promotes recovery, and supports families and carers.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Your benefits:

• Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Free parking on-site
• Access to a host of discount schemes
• A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
• Excellent NHS Pension

Job description

Job responsibilities

Qualifications Essential criteria

• Registered with governing body
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge and Experience Essential criteria

• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of prioritising a range of needs
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to patients with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Knowledge of impact physical health has on mental health
• Working knowledge of Mental Health Act

Job description
Job responsibilities

Qualifications Essential criteria

• Registered with governing body
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge and Experience Essential criteria

• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of prioritising a range of needs
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to patients with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Knowledge of impact physical health has on mental health
• Working knowledge of Mental Health Act

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with governing body.
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of prioritising a range of needs
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to patients with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professional
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Knowledge of impact physical health has on mental health
• Working knowledge of Mental Health Act

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with governing body.
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of prioritising a range of needs
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to patients with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professional
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Knowledge of impact physical health has on mental health
• Working knowledge of Mental Health Act

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

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 .

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. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

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 .

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. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Langley Green Hospital

Martyrs Avenue

Crawley

RH11 7EJ

United Kingdom

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