Senior Mental Health Practitioner Job In Leinster

Transform Mental Health Services in Lincolnshire

Join a dynamic team to revolutionize mental health care in Lincolnshire, promoting holistic care and integrated working.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the transformation of Mental health Services. The role is flexible and we promote hybrid working opportunities.

Main Responsibilities

• Work within East Lindsey Medical Group and Marsh Medical Practice to offer consultations within surgeries to meet the mental health needs of local communities at primary care stage.
• Provide specialist mental health support and advice to our population and link in with those in secondary care if and when appropriate to ensure the needs of individuals are being met.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner to provide specialist mental health within this primary care setting.
• Ensure delivery of a person-centred approach, enabling individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological and social wellbeing.
• Provide a timely response to referrals and be responsible for advanced clinical care using comprehensive, evidence-based, holistic assessment.
• Promote high-quality standards and cost-effectiveness in all aspects of care delivery.
• Act as an autonomous practitioner, working with a caseload of people referred to them in a manner which demonstrates an enhanced knowledge base and advanced clinical skills and competencies.
• Improve clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own home/community and reduce the need for, or prevent inappropriate hospital admission.
• Maintain responsibility and accountability for the provision of a high-quality, cost-effective complex care based on health assessment of patients referred to the caseload.
• Accountable for planning and evaluating the work carried out by self-managing and prioritising a caseload of patients according to their health status, who are referred by various agencies including GP, hospital, case managers, social care, and independent sector.
• Contribute to the work carried out by Neighbourhood colleagues from a MH perspective.
• Establish effective working relationships with patients, their families and carers, including education and promoting individual rights, recognising and respecting their contributions to care planning, placing patient in the centre of their care.
• Develop individual evidence-based holistic care plans and self-management plans with the patient, carers, relatives, health and social care professionals.
• Attend core neighbourhood working meetings as part of an integrated team and work in a collaborative manner with the Neighbourhood Lead.
• Facilitate, participate and optimise case conferences/Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings.
• Work within the Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding policy.
• Maintain and record accurate documentation and correspondence in line with professional and Trust guidance in the appropriate legal records and formats.
• Plan, implement, monitor and review therapeutic interventions with individuals/carers who have serious mental illness through holistic patient-centred assessments.
• Support the local implementation of national and local policy that impacts upon the health and well-being of patients.
• Act as a role model and expert to neighbourhood and primary care colleagues, endorsing best practice, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Support the workforce development for managing the changing demographic and population health.
• Develops and maintains highly developed clinical skills and support the learning and educational needs of others within the neighbourhood.
• Act as a clinical specialist and contribute to service development by working as a member of working/steering groups and in partnership working and service transformation.
• Engage patients and carers in individual health promotion action.
• Participate in population health/management/improvement activities within the community.
• Maintain patient confidentiality and work within the confines of the Data Protection Act.
• Undertake medicine management review and prescribe medicine and appliances for patients.
• Work with the management matrix to understand the fiscal and governance issues that are applicable to the organisation and the neighbourhood.
• Provide supervision to other team members on a day-to-day basis.
• Provide direct supervision to specified staff delegated by the Service Manager.
• Receive and participate in staff development and performance appraisals.
• Support the development of the professional practice in the service, ensuring the provision of clinical supervision.
• Promote the mission and values of the Trust.

Person Specification

• Qualifications:
• Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent.
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
• Evidence of advanced clinical practice at postgraduate level to masters or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Management or leadership qualification.
• Non-medical prescriber.
• Experience:
• Post-Registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs.
• Experience of working autonomously within a senior position.
• Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills.
• Experience of working across organisations.
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of confidentiality.
• Sound knowledge of community care issues, local health and social structures, functions and boundaries.
• Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act.
• Experience of leading service change/development/transformation.
• Experience of leading training sessions.
• Experience of neighbourhood working.
• Skills:
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
• Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.
• Able to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stakeholders.
• Good negotiation skills for conflict resolution.
• IT skills - email, word processing, excel, systems use.
• Analyse and interpret data and/or information.
• Statistics.
• Special Requirements:
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
• Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.