Senior Home Treatment Team Practitioner

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

About the team:

Lambeth Home Treatment Team provides 24hr, 7 day a week, crisis assessment and intensive home treatment to patients with the aim of preventing in-patient admission where possible or if admission is required facilitating earlier discharge.

About the role:

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Home Treatment Team Practitioner to join Lambeth Home Treatment Team. The post holder will work as part of the borough's Home Treatment service on a rota basis. The role will include working across the Trust's Acute Referral Centre (ARC) on a rotation basis although most time is spent located in the borough Home Treatment Service.

When working in the HTT team, practitioners undertake assessments and treatment as required. The person will lead in the assessment, co-ordination, planning, implementation, evaluation and delivery of high-quality home treatment for people in acute psychiatric crisis. The role will involve responsibility for a group of mental health service users in crisis, with the aim of promoting their recovery and maintaining them in a community setting rather than in hospital.

When working in ARC Practitioners undertake triage assessments and on occasions face to face assessments. They form part of a team that manages beds and are expected to follow through the referral to a safe conclusion which means liaising with wards, community services and Home Treatment teams.

Please note vacancy may be closed early once capacity has been met.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a Registered Mental Health, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, who, acting within their own professional boundaries, will provide care for presenting service users from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. The post holder will supervise junior members of staff and support the work of the senior team members of the team.

The post holder will play a key role in the current development of the team and help implement the service's aims and objectives, as well as helping to ensure good links with referring in patient and community teams, with a view to reducing the number and length of inpatient admissions. Effective gatekeeping assessment and the identification and delivery of the best treatment packages for people presenting to services in crisis will also be key.

Working for our organisation

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers

We look forward to receiving your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Recognised Professional Qualification in Social Work, Nursing (RMN or RNLD) or Occupational Therapy
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship for RMNs or equivalent
• Post registration qualification in specialty

Experience

Essential criteria

• A range of relevant post registration experience in an acute mental health setting
• Excellent knowledge of mental health policy including relevant legislation especially the Mental Health Act
• Experience of having a lead role within a team or involvement in QI

Desirable criteria

• Experience of delivering teaching
• Experience of a variety of psychological and social interventions
• Previous experience of working for a home treatment or crisis service

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to assess risk and provide a management plan
• Able to conduct a thorough assessment of mental state, needs and risk
• Able to work with a wide variety of professionals and agencies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable criteria

• Able to teach, appraise and supervise junior staff

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

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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

• B6 Senior HTT Practitioner (PDF, 171.7KB)
• SLaM Staff Benefits (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working (PDF, 680.1KB)