Haringey MACCT - Senior Practitioner Band 7

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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

Job overview

To provide efficient and effective advanced specialist and general mental health practitioner assessment and intervention to the clients who are care coordinated within the MACC Team MDT.

To create personalised treatment programmes co-produced alongside client's strengths and their support network to support them to manage with complex health conditions.

The AHP/Registered Practitioner will be aware of physical and psychological factors living with long term health conditions and frailty and will support the stabilisation of their social situations with the view to improve quality of life and well being.

To promote excellent collaborative working links with partnership agencies across the health, social and voluntary sectors to ensure the clients have the best possible support network to utilise the most appropriate health and social care services with the view to reduce and prevent unplanned hospital admissions.

Main duties of the job

• To be the Lead mental health specialist within the MACCT.

• To contribute to the triage of the referral and allocation process for new referrals received by the service.

• To provide highly specialist advice complete, complete assessments and the completion of individual care plans, which take account of risk assessments and individuals psychological and physical health needs (frailty).

• To maintain a role as care coordinator of a case load of clients whose range of needs require 'complex' arrangements of care.

• To ensure good caseload management in including that discharges or transfers of care are progressed in a safe and timely manner.

Working for our organisation

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and well being, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To collaborate with partner agencies in the development of the local delivery of services provided by the MACCT .

• To deputise for the Haringey OP Community Services Manager as required.

• In conjunction with senior managers, participate in recruitment, selection and appointment of staff.

• To provide formal practice and performance management supervision to MACCT BEH members in accordance with multi disciplinary supervision policies.

• To provide specialist professional supervision to members of own profession.

• To undertake yearly staff appraisals and develop Individual Development Plans for MACCT BEH Members.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant professional qualification in Nursing, Social Care or Therapy
• Currently registered appropriate professional body.
• Evidence of ongoing CPD in portfolio
• Additional qualification/learning within specialist field

Desirable criteria

• Further training within the specialist area of Mental Health for the Older Person

Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum of four years post registration experience including mental health and older people
• Experience of working as part of a team
• Experience of working in a community setting

Desirable criteria

• Two or more years experience working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of managing a department
• Experience of managing other professions

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to work and communicate effectively with team members of differing professional backgrounds
• Good knowledge of and ability to implement care pathways
• Able to demonstrate a high level of specialist clinical reasoning

Desirable criteria

• Good presentation skills
• Experience of organising internal or external training session/course
• Able to deal with difficult situations, e.g. dealing with aggressive and/or emotional patients or carers

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• MACCT Senior Practitioner Band 7 (PDF, 256.4KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 258.2KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)