Job summary
The Biggleswade and Ampthill CMHTs are recruiting a community mental health nurse or social worker to join our team as a triage practitioner.

You will be part of The Mid Bedfordshire Community Mental Health Services. Our team is part of the Mental Health Transformation of services and our new blended team where our voluntary service colleagues are fully embedded within the team. This is an exciting time to join this expanding, developing, and modern service.If you are looking to be innovative, a team player, and want to be part of a supportive, progressive, and effective team, then this will be the post for you.

We are interested in what you want from your career, to grow and develop for your continuing professional development and we will work closely with you to focus on and to tailor your individual needs as a nurse or social work professional.The post holder will have a particular focus on our 'front door'. You will hold a caseload and work within the principles of the agreed model of care for the service as laid down in the Operational Policy. The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner within an integrated Multi-disciplinary team. This will involve the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the care provided and will liaise with all agencies involved with the client.Come And Join The Team!

If you would like to visit us or call for an informal chat please feel free.Call Amy Bagshaw on 01767 224922

Main duties of the job
Undertake specialist and comprehensive assessment of needs at the 'front door' to the service

Use tools such as Dialog+ to co-ordinate care for a defined caseload

Practice within professional guidelines and promote professional practice in the clinical area.

Ensure high standards and accurate verbal/written communication about patient care with all team members.

Put service users at the center of everything achieved, taking responsibility for the development and delivery of evidence-based practice, ensuring that it supports and reflects service users' individual needs, Trust objectives, and professional guidance.

Work to values that include self-determination, empowerment, and choice for service users

Work in partnership with service users and empower them to draw on their strengths and assets, and set goals they would like to achieve in all aspects of their lives.

If you are a registered Mental Health Nurse you may be required to support the effective operation of our depot clinic and undertake physical health assessments, although this will not be the core element of the role.

About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

• Comprehensive needs assessment and care planning - ensuring this is holistic, person-centred, and co-produced
• DIALOG+.
• Specialist clinical assessments and care delivery in line with best and evidence based practice, with reference to NICE recommendations
• Case management
• Crisis Intervention
• Safeguarding - awareness, alert raising and acting as enquiry officer
• Awareness and implementation of MHA and relevant legal frameworks. Good report writing and presentation of case
• Trauma informed practice
• Carers' support and psycho-education
• Liaison and interface with other agencies
• Ensuring that a service user centred multi-disciplinary approach to care is present
• To take an active role in direct service user care and act as a role model at all times
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Care Act associated responsibilities within your role, and if you are a registered social worker, complete statutory assessments under Care Act 2014
• Ensuring that care reflects individual and cultural needs taking into account any reasonable adjustments that may be required
• Understand and apply the aims and principles of health promotion, protection and improvement and the prevention of ill health when engaging with people
• Undertake training and assessment to expand clinical skills and knowledge relevant to clinical practice needs.
• Ensure that the clinical environment is pleasant, clean, comfortable and suitable for use at all times liaising with other departments as necessary.
• Risk assessment and comprehensive risk management
• Relapse prevention and early warning signs
• Medication administration & management inclusive of concordance and side-effect monitoring. Participation in depot/ clozapine clinic (registered nurses only)
• Reflective practice
• Maintaining accurate and timely records
• Completing outcome measures at the start and end of each clinical episode
• Participation in audits and quality improvement projects

Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential

• Professional Qualification - Nursing or Social Worker
• Registered with NMC or Social Work England
• Evidence of further training and developmen

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working in Community Mental Health or Social Care.
• Experience of Recovery Focused interventions.
• Experience of using Information and Communication Technology to deliver clinical practice.
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of managing a full caseload.

Knowledge & Skills
Essential

• Skilled at assessing need and risk, and demonstrating professional curiosity
• Good understanding of mental health conditions and treatment options in line with NICE Guidance
• Ability to analyse complex information and evidence well-reasoned decision making within oral and written information
• Ability to develop co-produced plans, addressing specific identified needs and meet goals
• Ability to apply recovery values and principles in day-to-day work.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries and work effectively with service users, colleagues and other agencies.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).