Acute Care Practitioner

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools. To work flexibly across a 24 hours / 7-day-a-week service, including night shifts. To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of staff members of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team is of the highest standard of clinical care. To help manage a shared case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
To ensure up to date and agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place. Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour. Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk. To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm. Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community. To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within CRHT and with external agencies. To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
To adhere to registered practitioners codes of professional conduct and ethics (NMC etc.), plus associated legislation. To develop clinical practice having due regard to guidelines of the N.S.F. for Older People, N.S.F for Mental Health, N.I.C.E. and N.I.M.H.E.
To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within CRHT and seek opportunities in local and national area as to promote and develop the profession. To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audits. To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the CRHT Team Co-ordinator/Manager. Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care colleagues and teams to help create networks that improve the pathway of care for service users referred to CRHT.
Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development

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