Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-A&UC-8860
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- MHUCC, Lister Hospital, Coreys Mill Lane, SG1 4AB
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Team Leader
Band 7
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
In conjunction with other members of the management team, to lead in the development and implementation of the Mental Health Urgent Care Centre (MHUCC) The service will operate 24/7 and will be a multi-disciplinary, cross sector service that is practitioner-led and supported by social care, voluntary sector partners and Lived Experience Workers.
The MHUCC primary role is to assess mental health symptoms and risk of service users who are admitted and to provide brief interventions to reduce crisis. It is envisaged as an assessment and signpost/refer on service and intervention to treat mental health symptoms will largely take place in the community through self-help, primary care, secondary services and third sector organisations.
The MHUCC will operate with a recovery-focussed approach from the start, using the principles of personalisation of care, co-production and supported self-management. It will be responsive to the needs of the service users and may at times need to be flexible in approach especially in periods of high demand on the wider health and social care system.
The postholder will carry responsibility for leading the MHUCC. The primary role of the MHUCC is to assess mental health symptoms and risk of service users who are admitted and to provide brief interventions to reduce crisis.
Main duties of the job
Provide Operational Management of the Mental Health Urgent Care Centre with responsibility for a 24 hour, 7 day a week service. The MHUCC will ensure service users are supported with an appropriate intervention or redirection within 4 to 12 hours. Service users will be supported with any minor physical health needs with EDs supporting high level interventions. If a service user presents with high level physical health needs, they will be required to present to EDs as it the current model with a view to being and transferred once the service user needs have been met.
Establish and maintain effective inter-agency and inter-team communication and liaison systems including protocols relating to admission and discharge from the ED. Maintain effective joint working with the Inpatient services, CRHTT, catchment CMHTs, PATH, wellbeing team and other community-based teams according to local circumstances.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Establish and maintain effective inter-agency and inter-team communication and liaison systems including protocols relating to admission and discharge from the ED. Maintain effective joint working with the Inpatient services, CRHTT, catchment CMHTs, PATH, wellbeing team and other community-based teams according to local circumstances
- Provide operational and clinical supervision to all team members. Where appropriate make arrangements for additional professional supervision to be available to team members.
- Develop, establish and monitor operational policies and protocols which reinforce the nature of collaborative and ‘best practice’ service provision. Establishing and maintaining quality care standards and procedures which support the aims of Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust and the ethos of Crisis assessment and intervention work.
- Ensure the service meets the strategic needs of the Partnership Trust.
For a More in-depth Person and Job Description please read attached before applying
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN/RN (MH) Or
- CQSW/Dip SW Or
- SROT (DipCOT/Bs OT)
Desirable criteria
- Cert or Dip in Management
- Relevant skills-based training
- BSc Community Specialist Practitioner
- Graduate Specialist MHL training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant and relevant experience of working with people with acute mental illness.
- Multi-professional working/case management
- Service development and Change Management
- Contributing to Operational Policy
- Bio-Psycho-social models of care
- Knowledge of physical health contributions to Mental Health issues, difficulties and assessment
- Significant experience of community-focused care
Desirable criteria
- Management/leadership of a multi-professional service
- Experience of working in Crisis Resolution/Home Treatment Services or Mental Health Liaison Services.
- Multi-disciplinary management experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liz Angus
- Job title
- operational manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07966554195
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