Acute Care Qualified Practitioner
at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lincoln LN1, England, United Kingdom -
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Immediate | 24 Sep, 2024 | GBP 42618 Annual | 25 Jun, 2024 | N/A | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
Do you believe that Autistic Individuals and/or Individuals with an Intellectual Disability (also known as Learning Disability) should receive the right care, in the right place and at the right time? Receiving care and treatment in their own homes, accessing mainstream mental health services, and avoiding unnecessary hospital admission? Then this could be the job for you.
We are looking to recruit an Acute Care Qualified Practitioners who will be providing dedicated support to the Home Treatment Team’s sitting with the Crisis team (CRHT) offering intensive and enhanced support. You will be working flexibly over a 7-day week to include early of late shifts covering the hours of 8am – 7pm. Weekend working would be based with either the Lincoln or Boston Teams.
You will be working alongside the Acute Assistant Practitioners with guidance from the Transforming Care Liaison team offering support to Autistic individuals and/or individuals with Intellectual Disabilities to access Mental Health services when they are in an acute phase on mental illness.
You will support the wider CRHT team in making reasonable adjustments needed for the successful treatment and support to ensure the prevention of unnecessary hospital admission. You will, along with colleagues, assess, plan, and implement a person’s care, utilising your specialist knowledge and skills. If you are driven to improve services offered to Autistic people and/or those with an Intellectual Disability, then this is for you.
You will be based within the Transforming Care Liaison Team but will directly link into and work alongside the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service. You will be responsible for the co-ordination of care needs, assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence based care to service users diagnosed with a Learning Disability and/or Autism who meet the criteria for the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment service. You will work a rota system over a 7 day week to provide this additional support.
You will deliver care jointly alongside other members of the crisis team and the Transforming Care Liaison Team, but be able to provide specialist advice, guidance and intervention in relation to an individual’s learning disability/autism diagnosis. Providing intensive/enhanced support to Transforming Care cases in order to facilitate admission avoidance, there could be occasions where you will be directly responsible for a small caseload where they are leading on the individual’s care needs.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
- 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.
- Assessment, treatment and support for individuals who display behaviour that challenges/distressed behaviours. Bio-pyschosocial assessment of needs and behaviour, using a functional assessment approach, and in collaboration with others who know the person well.
- Direct and urgent support in response to a crisis that might otherwise lead to family/service breakdown; admission to an inpatient setting; or an out of area placement.
- Rapid risk assessment and liaison with care commissioners and/or providers with a view to making immediate modifications to the person’s care and support with the aim of reducing the risk of harm / placement breakdown.
- To deliver support across a range of community settings e.g. people’s own homes, family homes, short break services, residential placements, short-term accommodation etc.
- An offer of time-limited direct and intensive support, including supporting paid carers/family carers with hands on support.
- Operates flexibly across a 7 day week.
- To deliver care jointly alongside other members of the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment staff.
- To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice is of the highest standard of clinical care.
- To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
Responsibilities:
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