01 Nov
NHS
Boston
Do you want to make a difference to the lives of people with dementia in Lincolnshire?
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Older Peoples and Frailty Division (OPFD) for band 6 D-HTT practitioner.
The Dementia Home Treatment Team (D-HTT) is a county wide community service providing intensive support to patients in their own homes and in nursing /residential homes. This support enables more people to remain at home or close to home, reducing the need for hospital admission. It supports people with dementia to be supported in a familiar environment, reducing the anxiety and distress that can be associated with transfer to an unfamiliar care environment.
D-HTT provides a rapid health response across seven days to patients whose presentation indicates that they are at risk of immediate deterioration or relapse that could escalate to an in-patient admission; or have been recently discharged from the Specialist Dementia Inpatient Pathway.
We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals at Band 6 level to join our dynamic team, we have a vacancy due to an expansion of the service in Lincoln and Boston.
The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate an understanding of the complexities and challenges that can present for patients with dementia and for their carers.
The posts will include weekend working to enable flexibility in meeting the needs of service users and their carers.
Main duties of the job
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 7-day-a-week service.
To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Dementia Home Treatment Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
Ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.
Work with older adults 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 people's identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
To assess carers' and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live well in their community where possible.
About us
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.
Date posted
29 October 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
274-11182-OA
Job locations
Boston Department of Psychiatry
Boston
PE21 9QS
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team,
ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Older Adult Dementia Home Treatment Team and Community Mental Health Teams and with external agencies.
To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
To adhere to codes of professional conduct and ethics, 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 the Older Adult Dementia Home Treatment Team 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 audit.
To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the Older Adult Dementia Home Treatment Team Co Ordinator.
To act as lead professionals within the Older Adult Dementia Home treatment Team.
Develop effective and supportive links with other Teams. To create networks that improve the pathway of care for service users referred to the Older Adult Dementia Home Treatment Team. Job description
Job responsibilities
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making,
both within the Older Adult Dementia Home Treatment Team and Community Mental Health Teams and with external agencies.
To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
To adhere to codes of professional conduct and ethics, 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 the Older Adult Dementia Home Treatment Team 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 audit.
To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the Older Adult Dementia Home Treatment Team Co Ordinator.
To act as lead professionals within the Older Adult Dementia Home treatment Team.
Develop effective and supportive links with other Teams. To create networks that improve the pathway of care for service users referred to the Older Adult Dementia Home Treatment Team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.Registered with a professional body e.g. NMC.
- Recognised Professional Qualification in Registered Nursing (RMN,RLDN), 1 st Level Registration (NMC) or dgree or equivalent.
- ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
Desirable
- Management training
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with adults/older adults with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both community/in-patient.
- Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Goverance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
- Ability to work independently and collectively.
- Ability to travel independently across the county
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.Registered with a professional body e.g. NMC.
- Recognised Professional Qualification in Registered Nursing (RMN,RLDN), 1 st Level Registration (NMC) or dgree or equivalent.
- ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
Desirable
- Management training
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with adults/older adults with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both community/in-patient.
- Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Goverance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
- Ability to work independently and collectively.
- Ability to travel independently across the county
▶️ Dementia Home Treatment Team Practitioner
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