Job summary
You will be working as a member of the Home Treatment Team, providing intensive home treatment to patients and support for their families using evidence based, profession specific and general mental health knowledge providing client centred, recovery orientated principles and practice for individuals, families and carers referred to the Service.
To work in accordance with Trust and Home Treatment Team Policies and Procedures and the Care Programme Approach. To provide an alternative to inpatient admission treating patients in their home environment who are presenting in a crisis with significant distress.
Our team covers the West Kent locality including Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks. It is an essential requirement that you are able to travel in the community in a timely manner.
Main duties of the job
- To work collaboratively with MDT members to contribute to a flexible and effective interdisciplinary team approach to clinical care.
- Communicate face to face with clients on a daily basis, some of which display challenging behaviour.
- To effectively establish a therapeutic relationship with service users and their relatives/carers.
- To assess capacity and obtain informed consent from service users and work within a legal framework with those clients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- In conjunction with colleagues to undertake, record, review and work within individual risk assessment and management plans in line with service and Trust policy.
- To provide mental health assessment of clients with acute mental health needs discharged from inpatient wards clearly assessing and managing risks.
About us
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) provides mental health, learning disability, substance misuse and other specialist services for 1.6 million people across Kent and Medway. We pride ourselves on providing high quality clinical services, innovation and partnership working. We are one of the larger NHS trusts covering an area of 1,450 square miles, employing over 3,600 staff and operating from over 100 buildings across Kent and Medway.
The range of services offered by KMPT offers unique opportunities for your professional development. We are committed to delivering integrated, community-based health and social care services and our strategy is underpinned by a 'recovery and wellbeing model' delivered in partnership with service users, their families and a wide range of organisational stakeholders.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Working with service users referred to Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service
- To provide short-term specific psychosocial interventions for those who would benefit from crisis interventions
- To ensure documentation is reviewed and updated in line with quality improvement standards
- To contribute to the planning and implementation of induction, training and education of students and staff.
- To contribute to the delivery of specialist/professional training packages of in-service training and staff development when necessary.
- To assist the band 7 senior practitioner by identifying personal and professional training needs in order to appropriately plan for future training and development.
- To provide effective supervision, support, and guidance for support/STR/peer workers/OT apprentices and any work delegated to them.
- Responsible for the delivery of individual care plans for a caseload
- Expected to implement policies as directed by the trust/directorate for the department, ensuring awareness throughout the department.
- Participate in leading service developments.
- Knowledge and expertise in the application of relevant professional theoretical models, and approaches relevant to client group.
- Communicate complex, sensitive and emotional information using a variety of mediums; being able to adapt methods/style/approach as appropriate.
- Awareness of clinical governance and its relationship to clinical effectiveness and patient safety and patient experience.
- To have effective organisational /planning and decision-making skills to manage workload
- Good knowledge of IT skills
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Working with service users referred to Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service
- To provide short-term specific psychosocial interventions for those who would benefit from crisis interventions
- To ensure documentation is reviewed and updated in line with quality improvement standards
- To contribute to the planning and implementation of induction, training and education of students and staff.
- To contribute to the delivery of specialist/professional training packages of in-service training and staff development when necessary.
- To assist the band 7 senior practitioner by identifying personal and professional training needs in order to appropriately plan for future training and development.
- To provide effective supervision, support, and guidance for support/STR/peer workers/OT apprentices and any work delegated to them.
- Responsible for the delivery of individual care plans for a caseload
- Expected to implement policies as directed by the trust/directorate for the department, ensuring awareness throughout the department.
- Participate in leading service developments.
- Knowledge and expertise in the application of relevant professional theoretical models, and approaches relevant to client group.
- Communicate complex, sensitive and emotional information using a variety of mediums; being able to adapt methods/style/approach as appropriate.
- Awareness of clinical governance and its relationship to clinical effectiveness and patient safety and patient experience.
- To have effective organisational /planning and decision-making skills to manage workload
- Good knowledge of IT skills
Person Specification
qualified OT
Essential
Desirable
- Experience of working in mental health
.
Essential
- Must be able to drive a car.
Desirable
- Experience of working in mental health
Person Specification
qualified OT
Essential
Desirable
- Experience of working in mental health
.
Essential
- Must be able to drive a car.
Desirable
- Experience of working 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
