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Job role: Mental Health Practitioner
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: C9350-25-1175
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About the Job:
- Formulate, contribute to, and participate in, the development and implementation of assessment and care planning systems in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team
- Manage a case load within the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team
- Carry out generic and specialist assessments, including risk and provide therapeutic interventions/ home treatments within the most appropriate setting in accordance with the service users and/or carers needs.
- Complete Gatekeeping for all Inpatient admission requests across the Merseyside footprint.
- Assess whether users can be managed safely within the community promoting quicker recovery.
- Assess Risks and collaboratively develop safety plans with users/carers.
- Ensure effective liaison with inpatient units across the Trust to facilitate early discharges or to undertake reviews of those users placed out of area.
- Act as the Duty Practitioner /2nd Duty, as part of a rotational roster.
- Fully participate in ECC undertaking a care-coordinator role as appropriate
- Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.
- Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
- Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.
- Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multi-disciplinary team.
- Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.
- Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision and act as Named Nurse as required.
- Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.
- Act as knowledge resource in specialist area of practice to other team members and other agencies as required.
- Where indicated and following completion of the relevant training the practitioner will act as a non-medical prescriber, at all times working within their sphere of clinical competence.
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