Senior Screening and Assessment Clinicia

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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

The postholder will be the lead clinician responsible for screening and assessing referrals for the Haringey Older Person's Community Mental Health Team, to ensure the service meets the four-week referral to treatment requirement. The post requires significant clinical, supervisory and organisational skills.

You will embed the 'No wrong Front Door' approach to mental health referrals to older people with mental health needs associated with ageing. You will be an autonomous practitioner, providing support and oversight to the Screening and Assessment (Band 5) clinician and Voluntary Care Sector Colleagues.

You will work holistically, liaising closely with GPs, other providers across health and social care, and community organisations in the borough of Haringey. You will undertake clinical assessments to understand complex needs of service users relating to psychiatric, cognitive, psychological, functional, behavioural and physical health issues. You will formulate an initial plan and complete a Dialog + informed care plan.

You will develop and oversee systems for the effective screening and assessment of service users referred to the Haringey Older Person's Community Mental Health Team to ensure the service meets the 4 week referral to treatment target.

Main duties of the job

• Coordinate the day to day running of the Assessment and Screening pathway within Haringey Older Person's Community Mental Health Team, including screening new referrals and allocating these to the Band 5 Screener and overseeing the work of the Voluntary Care Sector workers.
• Complete telephone triages/screening for service users who are referred to our service, meeting the physical, psychological, social and cultural needs of the individual and their family, using research-based knowledge and skills to maintain the individual's identity.
• Work collaboratively with community organisations, charities and voluntary care sectors across Haringey to improve access to Community Mental Health Services for residents from all communities across Haringey.
• Complete over the telephone risk assessment and management plans and where necessary, arrange home visit and face to face assessments.
• Complete brief assessments including Dialog+ assessments
• To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients who do not meet the criteria for the Core Team and to sign post them safely to relevant partner agencies and services.
• Apply specialist clinical knowledge and experience to provide education for clients to develop a greater understanding of their mental health condition and working in a client centered way with clients to help develop their awareness of their condition, life skills and coping strategies.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is embedded within our clinical strategy. We want to help people live, love, do.

• Live - A safe and secure place to call home
• Love - Re-building relationships which may have broken down during a period of illness
• Do - Help people to find a meaningful activity - that may be getting back into employment or further education

Our values

The Trust's values are:

• Compassion
• Respect
• Being Positive
• Working together

See details in the attached Job description.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To undertake a comprehensive Risk Assessment and clearly communicate this within the MDT to formulate a clear plan of care.
• To participate in the weekly Core Team Referrals MDT meetings, Business Meeting Clinical Governance meetings and any other forums as requested by the team manager.
• Have clear understanding and knowledge of process and systems to effectively raise safeguarding concerns.
• Manage and maintain clear and up to data systems.
• Work alongside admin colleagues and members of the MDT to ensure a smooth and timely response/screening for all new referrals into the Core Team
• Ensure the safe delivery of Key KPI's and access to treatment standards.

Co-production and Service User Engagement

• To adhere to Trust Policy of co-production and produce and review guided self-help materials with service users.
• Work closely with community organisations to identify and reduce barriers to residents access Community Mental Health services.

Teaching, training, and supervision

• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a senior Clinician and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
• To gain additional specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical discipline and the service as agreed with the professional manager.
• To provide regular supervision to the Band 5 Screening and Assessment Clinician including annual appraisals, formal and informal guidance to support their continuing professional development.
• To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

• Professional registration with relevant professional body i.e. NMC, HCPC
• Relevant degree or post graduate diploma/equivalent level of experience
• Minimum of 3 years post registration experience including mental health and older people

Desirable criteria

• Two or more years experience working within a multidisciplinary team/Older Adults CMHT

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

• Experience of undertaking risk assessments for complex clients
• Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and client.
• Experience of effective communication with other key stakeholders at a variety of levels

Desirable criteria

• Experience of coordination and overseeing referral management systems
• Knowledge of statutory and voluntary sector services

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria

• Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical, technical and clinical knowledge and experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively in highly emotive situations: - overcoming barriers to understanding and analysing complex and conflicting opinion/emotions

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

• Band 7 Senior Screener & Assessment Clinician (PDF, 504.3KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)