Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

The Emergency Response Coordinator is responsible for providing senior clinical leadership and advice within the Emergency Response Service which is a service offering a crisis response to patients 24/7.  As a specialist practitioner the role entails the post holder to provide clinical leadership and day to day coordination of clinical practice to support the effective delivery of care across the Crisis Network.

As a coordinator for the team, there will be a need for the post holder to work flexibly in supporting the safe running of the service, providing supervision for lower banded members of the team, with an expectation that they will be involved in face to face and telephone assessments.

There will be a need to work closely with other services such as police, ambulance and the local authority and other local partnership agencies to ensure the effectiveness of outcomes following crisis assessment.  By ensuring the co-ordinating support, refer and liaise effectively with all professionals, agencies and other parties involved in service user’s support in order to deliver the crisis support package.

Main duties of the job

To flexibly work shifts covering a twenty-four hour period in order to meet service need.

Allocate safe distribution of workload and provide coordination of the shift.

Provide and oversee the clinical management and support of team members.

Provide clinical supervision for lower banded members of the team.

Provide and oversee the management and care of service users.

Produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenance of accurate and timely documentation / records on all service users in line with your professional code of conduct and Trust policy.

Undertake specialist assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care in the community for service users with severe / complex mental health conditions/ experiencing episodes of acute psychological distress.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Oversee the conduct/ contribute to the assessment process, as well as the observation and on-going assessment, providing accurate and timely feedback.

Conduct risk assessment of the individual and of the potential hazards in the service user’s environment.

Attend multi-disciplinary meetings i.e. referral / review / business.

Report and document incidents as required.

Conduct and oversee physical health care checks and act upon findings.

Responsible for administration of medications, assessment of side effects, review concordance and clinical effectiveness of medication regime in line with Trust policy including safe transportation and storage of medicines, checking receipt, storage of medicines in medicine cupboard.

Provide education around the medication prescribed, side effects, actions and aids to compliance.

Provide education and support to develop service users understanding of mental illness and training packages for staff.

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