Band 6 Specialist Practitioner BSW 111 Urgent Care Service - Devizes

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role will work collaboratively with a range of internal and external teams and agencies to support and enhance current mental health urgent care service provision across the BSW system. The role will inspire and support others to deliver a high quality and effective urgent care intensive service for service users and carers.

Working in partnership with team managers the post holder will ensure excellent clinical standards and effective workload management; this will be underpinned by robust and effective supervision processes.

The majority of the role will include undertaking telephone based triage and assessments, making onward referrals to services when clinically indicated, and providing advice and guidance to service users and carers, and other statutory and commissioned services.

You will be working in collaboration with AWP BSW services such as Intensive Support Teams, Acute Hospital Liaison, Care Home Liaison, Police Control Room Triage and Health Based Place of Safety.

Description of the duties

1. To delivery of high quality and effective intensive out of hours Urgent Care mental health service for service users, carers and professionals calling.

2. To ensure the appropriate care pathway is identified focussed on the management of risk and prevent hospital admission for service users with the most complex and acute needs where appropriate.

3. To co-ordinate, undertake and/or support the specialist assessment of physiological and/or psychological functioning for service users with complex and health and wellbeing needs, in an emergency for service users, who may be acutely unwell, distressed and in crisis.

4. To be responsible for, ensuring that calls made to BSW enter an appropriate mental health care pathway using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and their carers, bringing in other resources as required.

5. To develop and maintain, good partnership working with other services throughout all urgent care episodes, including core partnership working with staff and regular liaison with other statutory agencies. Including the Police Service, Ambulance Service and Social Service Emergency Duty Teams. In addition to Primary Health Care Teams, inpatient and intensive services, the Third Sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

6. Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of people/services/ agencies about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing developing or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carer and the service.

7. To represent the organisation in a range of circumstances, settings, presenting, facilitating or explaining as appropriate and dealing with any questions or difficulties as they arise

8. To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.

9. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by developing and reviewing with others protection plans and management strategies, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

10. Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.

11. To work with the Team Manager and Senior Practitioners to ensure the continuing improvements to the service in line with organisational goals.

12. To maintain health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

13. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

14. To participate in, and deliver as required, management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

15. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for the development of others, both practitioners, and those in training.

16. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

17. Promote monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

18. Work with the Team Manager and Senior Practitioners to develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

19. To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.

This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP trust policy all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSWs are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years.

If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Has worked at band 5 or equivalent
• Is a registered professional
• Has worked in Mental Health services

Desirable

• Has worked in AWP
• Has worked in a community setting in Mental Health

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 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).

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Green Lane Hospital

Marshall Road

Devizes

SN105DS

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)