Frailty Virtual ward Mental Health Practitioner

at  Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

To provide a high standard of specialist mental health assessment, planning, implement & evaluate planned treatment for individuals with common mental health problems using evidence-based practice. Intervention will reflect peoples psychological, physical, social, cultural, and spiritual needs, promoting good health as well as treating ill health. Develop therapeutic relationships in which people using services are empowered and enabled to make informed choices about their health and healthcare. Demonstrate clinical leadership through participation in; the management of referrals, provision of clinical supervision to the frailty service team and wider Community teams, facilitating case review discussions when required.
Prescribe medication as an independent nurse prescriber within their own sphere of competence and the bounds of their approved prescribing status in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy. Work as an independent non-medical prescriber initiating / modifying treatment to support management of behavioural psychiatric symptoms of dementia, mood disorders, delirium etc. within areas as required and designated, taking responsibility for the clinical assessment of the patient, establishing a diagnosis, and delivering a plan for that patients care and treatment. Promote patient choice and understanding when delivering a diagnosis or prescribing medicines, including provision of high-quality information both written and verbal to support this.
Negotiate with and motivate clients when working with care plans and treatment processes particularly to socially excluded vulnerable people. Act as care co-ordinator for service users as required

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