Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Professionals
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (May require to work flexibly outside of these hours for business need)
- Job ref
- 335-A-1584
- Employer
- East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Home/Agile
- Town
- East Midlands
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/09/2024 23:59
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Mental Health Development Practitioner
7
We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job overview
Are you looking for a new and challenging role? Do you have extensive experience of working in Mental Health?
This position offers an exciting opportunity for a registered Mental Health Practitioner to join the EMAS strategic mental health team to further develop and drive forward the ambulance response to mental health workstreams.
The postholder will work across the EMAS geographical footprint (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire) to develop mental health pathways, provide mental health related advice/guidance to service lines and support the strategic mental health team to deliver and implement the aspirations so the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) with regard to the ambulance response to mental health.
Main duties of the job
- - Maintain specialist knowledge of mental health and associated legislation e.g. Mental Health Act (1983) and its application within prehospital urgent and emergency care.
-- - Ability to consider, synthesise and analyse complex mental health situations that arise in the prehospital environment and provide where required advice and guidance to a broad range of clinicians.
- - Work with the mental health team to support the implementation of the ambulance response to mental health as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) and drive forward the ongoing related workstreams.
- - Evidence of developed clinical skills in relation to mental health and a track record of continuing professional development.
- - Attend relevant internal and external meetings to represent the strategic mental health team and provide updates on ongoing workstreams, ensuring all work is underpinned by appropriate governance structures and reporting processes.
-- - Devise and conduct assessment of learning against prescribed outcomes and criteria including the Mental Health Core Skills Education and Training Framework and Dementia Core Skills Education and Training Framework.
- - Work with the workforce education teams to support their knowledge development regarding mental health so they can confidently deliver these aspects during induction and mandatory training.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will report to the EOC/999 Mental Health Lead and be part of the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team across the Organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details and criteria for this role.
Person specification
Qulaifications and Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Occupational Therapist/Social Worker/Psychologist with mental health experience and expertise.
- Educated to postgraduate level or equivalent knowledge through experience and portfolio.
- Portfolio of CPD evidence showing commitment to personal development.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching Qualification / Assessing Qualification
- Knowledge of Ambulance Service
- Robust evidence of experience and understanding of the wider health care system management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems, people who self-harm and people who experience suicidal thoughts or ideas.
- Experience in providing advice/ guidance regarding people in mental health crisis. / application of relevant legal frameworks/complex situations
- Experiencing in escalating incidents/ areas of clinical risk/concern.
- Experienced in planning and designing teaching/education/training materials.
- Experience of setting up and managing projects.
- Experience of working inter-professionally and across professional boundaries.
- Experience of writing reports.
- Experience of designing and implement changes to improve systems and processes.
- Ability to interpret data effectively in order to make meaningful judgments.
- Experienced in managing own time, working under pressure and working autonomously.
- Experienced in management, motivational and leadership skills.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with external stakeholders.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge of relevant legislation e.g., MHA, MCA, and their use in emergency and urgent care/ prehospital environment.
- Knowledge and understanding of current health and social care agendas.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Exceptional presentation skills.
- Proven analytical and judgement skills, problem solving skills and ability to make and act upon decisions.
- Excellent planning & organisational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and priorities.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner.
- Ability to present information in reports using charts and graphs etc. to explain complex information and make recommendations based on evidence.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft applications.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of Ambulance Service Policies, Procedures and Strategy and of broader NHS/Ambulance agendas.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Professional and personal credibility.
- Self-motivated
- Demonstrates high level of emotional intelligence.
- Demonstrates resilience, confidence and self- belief when under pressure.
- Demonstrates flexibility to support programme needs.
- Demonstrates collaborative and inclusive working.
- Ability to travel throughout Trust footprint within reasonable timescales.
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
- Helen Auld
- Job title
- Mental Health Strategic Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07385 085449
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