Job Title: Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Agency: Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Location: Norfolk, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: Not Specified

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Job Summary

ROLE SUMMARY

• The post holder will undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi- disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs.
• Support and advice to other health care professionals. To support aspects of service development.
• Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant UEA students.
• To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge, and at review.
• To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed on to other Trust teams or services on the transfer of patients.
• To ensure the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team

Main duties of the job

Clinical

• To be accountable for one’s own professional practice, in line with one’s professional body.
• Participate in mental health promotion.
• Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE Guidelines).
• Provide training and support for colleagues, including non-statutory and statutory agencies.
• Effective personal planning and organisation of daily workload
• Flexible working and managing own working time effectively and according to service demands.
• Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing, and providing high-quality care.
• Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others.
• Attend all mandatory training as required by the Trust, and undertake further training and updating as required to carry out the role.
• Initiate, create, and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient-centred.
• Promote the involvement of service users and carers in the development of the care pathway.
• Ensuring that all patients are given a full explanation of their care pathway/treatment options, and no decision is taken forward without their consent.
• Regularly be involved in service evaluation, audit, and/or research studies.
• Undertake clinical audit and clinical governance activities as required.

How to Apply;

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