15 Oct
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Gloucester
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
· Undertake a full range of activities required to deliver a comprehensive face to face bio psychosocial mental health assessment in an emergency, to people who may be distressed/ in crisis.
· Use highly developed communication skills in working with people in Mental Health Crises to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties, recognising the need for varying methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
· Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for people in Crises including assessing patients for suitability for psychological interventions and medical treatment.
· Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of service users presenting in Mental Health Crises that require an emergency response in line with the service and agreed protocols.
· Work with other health and social care professionals to assess,
treat and monitor management of patients in line with national and local policies and practice needs.
· Assume a clinical leadership role where co-ordination of a multi-agency approach is required in response to complex referrals or patients presenting to Urgent and Emergency services in mental Health Crises.
· To provide education, support and supervision to emergency services staff and health care professionals involved in MHRRV service and FPCC.
· Engage and involve family members, carers in management of response to people in a Mental Health crisis and any ongoing treatment as necessary.
· Promote and deliver the care to patients required to manage the demand of the quality and outcomes framework as appropriate.
· To respond to Crisis calls whilst at FPCC, acting as a clinical role model,
leading by example, mentoring clinical staff and where required taking the lead in managing challenging complex clinical scenarios.
· Provide specialist advice and consultation to other clinicians, professionals and emergency care workers on a broad range of issues relating to people presenting with Mental Health Crises.
· Keep coherent records of all clinical activity at FPCC and in line with joint Memorandum of Understanding and Operational Policy for MHRRV.
· Carry out clinical audits of service performance,
including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.
▶️ Mental Health Response Vehicle & FPCC Clinical Lead
🖊️ Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Gloucester