Mental Health Practitioner - Urgent Care Rotation Posts - South Staffs

Job summary

We are delighted to offer an exciting and highly rewarding opportunity to join our South Staffordshire Mental Health Teams as a Mental Health professional based across St Georges Hospital, Stafford and Stafford County Hospital with travel across the South Staffordshire area.

As a Registered Mental Health professional (Nurse, OT or Social Worker), you will be part of a team providing specialist adult mental health support and will play a crucial and pivotal role in assessing Mental Health crises in individuals referred to the service and deliver safe and effective treatment for those individuals in line with a wellbeing and recovery action plan.

This is a unique opportunity to work across 3 services in Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHT) West Pathway, Liaison Psychiatry Team West and the Crisis Care Suite on a 6-12 month rotational post providing you with a varied role with scope to develop skills across those fields and positively impact the services you work within.

You will be responsible for supporting a culture of "wrapping the service around the person" and will need to work flexibly to ensure that pathways work together as a whole service, to meet the person's needs.

As an integral team work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on a shift basis therefore a degree of flexibility will be required. Due to the nature of this role you will require the ability to adequately travel across a large geographical area.

Main duties of the job

As this role is a rotational post you will be expected to deliver a wide range of skills and utilise you extensive knowledge within all aspect of the 3 services to deliver effective and efficient care.

You will be responsible for undertaking clinical assessments, in accordance with the clinical pathway, in order to establish the person's needs, goals, risks and strengths in order to generate a formulation-based care plan agreed with all involved.

As part of this role you will be expected to:

• You be responsible for delivering therapeutic interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health related difficulties.
• Provide indirect care through the functions of educator and advice giver to relatives, carers and other organisations where appropriate
• Participate in the delivery of the agreed aims and objectives of the service and identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
• Providing care in line with NICE Guidance, COT Recovering Ordinary Lives Mental Health Strategy and COT Care Cluster guidance including other relevant local and national documentation.
• Supply, administer and monitor medications, complying with relevant Trust Procedures (for example Patient Group Directions and Non-Medical Prescribing) and NMC Guidance.
• Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance including pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications