Band 6 Specialist Practitioner CMHT / PCLS - Kingswood Civic Centre

Undertake quality comprehensive mental health and social care needs assessment, including risk assessment for service users. To provide primary care services with rapid access to specisalist mental health advice and Support and to enable them to deal more effectively with a range of mental health problems. To provide information and sign posting support for service users and their relatives/carers about functional and organic mental health disorders. To ensure when needed that people experience a seamless transfer into AWP provider/treatment services. Following assessment, to provide short-term follow up of patients where appropriate. To advice on mendication management issues To ensure the active involvement of carers and family members during all stages of assessment processes. To rasie awareness of the effects of physical conditions on the mental health of service users. Be responsible for a specific caseload of service users and acting as care co-ordinator. Establish with the service
user and carer (where appropriate) an agreed care plan, which includes evidence based interventions to address assessed needs, how outcomes will be measured and agreed timescale for input. To arrange such services as are appropriate to the care plan using the care management process. Regularly evaluate the care plan with the service user and alter as required. Use the principles and processes with the agreed CPA policy and to act as care coordinator when appropriate. Undertake specialist assessments, eg Continuing Health Care and Cognitive testing as required. Lead, maintain and participate in pracittices that enable team working. Act as a link practitioner between the PCLS and the Later life CMHT. Record Keeping & Administration Keep contemporaneous, chronological and accurate mental health records in accordance with Trust policy, professional guidelines and local team procedures. Collect and input information and appropriate statistics for providing overall information about clinical
activity. Use time effectively and make appropriate use of resources. Attend business meetings and participate in clinical discussion, presenting complex cases when appropriate. Clinical Liaison Provide effective communication both within AWP and with Primary Care, Social Services and a range of other voluntary and statutory organisations. Sensitively and appropriately communicate with colleagues, service users, carers and relatives. Operate within the Multi Agency Policy on Safeguarding Adults and participate in the investigation process as appropriate. Continuing Professional Development and Practice Maintain and develop professional knowledge skills and expertise, to ensure that practice reflects best practice and remain current and evidence based. Act in accordance within the guidelines from professional body. To assist and participate in appropriate service development reforms. Work to the policies and procedures of the Trust. Ensure knowledge of and work to any local team policies
and procedures. Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant medicines, related medication management issues and act in accordance with NMC guidelines. Take responsibility for post-registration education and practice requirements for continued professional development needs. Ensure the provision and fully participate in the clinical and management supervision and appraisal process. Actively participate in the T Maintain up to date knowledge and skills of appropriate IT systems. Teaching, Education and Audit Contribute to the provision of an appropriate learning environment for pre and post registered students and new team members and act as a mentor for nursing students Provide formal feedback from training sessions attended. Identify, initiate and support the development of improvements in the service, including clinical audit. Management Provide supervision for other staff members both qualified and unqualified as required by the Team Manager/Senior Practitioner. Lead