CCETT Practitioner
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 5 Practitioner, to join our award winning ongoing developing CCETTS Team based in Lincoln.
Our service covers areas across North of Lincolnshire so having a means to travel is essential.
We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to join our award-winning team. You will be providing crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people struggling with acute deteriorating mental health difficulties, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders/ disordered eating and psychosis.
Our team looks at providing an alternative to a tier 4 admission and supporting those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care.
The role will include providing Crisis Assessments, 1:1 therapeutic intervention; utilising DBT and CBT skills, providing Emotional First Aid group work, and psycho- education with parents and Carers.
You will work closely with our CAMHs Mental Health Liaison service.
The successful applicant will be expected to work a shift pattern on a rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45-19:00hrs.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of community clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools
Provide rapid response to children/young people presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations over a 24/7 rota.
Work as part of a team managing referrals for assessment and intensive community treatment for young people experiencing a mental health crisis or at risk of hospital admission.
Act as bed co-ordinators for out-of-county placements.
Support the Access Assessment of new referrals for in-patient beds.
Act as lead professional for complex cases within the team.
Engage with young people to provide mental health and risk assessment, risk management plans, and taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following crisis.
Provide full assessment and collaborative care planning for implementation by the multi-disciplinary team, in partnership with young people/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children’s services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment Framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.
Proactively involve children/young people and their families/carers in service development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a high standard of community clinical care ensuring safe and effective treatment and comprehensive care planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools
Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
Empower Service Users and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.
Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
Work flexibly across the county from a designated base.
Provide a 7 day week, extended service
Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children’s services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.
Proactively involve young people and families in service development including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.
Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children and families.
Work closely with other colleagues within the service to enable effective transitions to and from other areas.
Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.
Adhere to Trust Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues and in maintaining accurate and effective written records.
Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.
Propose changes and developments to service delivery and contribute to policy discussions at both team and service level.
Participate and deliver management and clinical supervision.
Mentor students placed with the service
Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including training and continuing professional development.
Maintain knowledge and standards of medicine management through training and supervision
Have an awareness of the mental health act, (MHA) deprivation of liberty, (DOLS), mental capacity act (MCA) and children’s act and how this affects the management of patients at home and as inpatients.