Assistant Practitioner - Whiston, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Whiston, United Kingdom

3 days ago

Tom O´Connor

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We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Practitioner for both Knowsley/St Helens and Halton/Warrington Mental Health Inpatient Services.

The role gives the successful applicant the opportunity to work with a number of teams that provide care within our adult and older adult mental health acute inpatients services.


The postholder will have responsibility for actively participating as a key member of the mental health team (and multi-disciplinary team, where appropriate) within the clinical department and/or ward.


The post holder will work closely with the Ward Manager, Modern Matron and Clinical Service Manager to ensure ward compliance with all aspects of performance.

To develop effective administration processes to monitor compliance against key performance indicators.

To support the ward Managers to ensure that staff attendance processes are followed using databases to monitor compliance to ensure policies are adhered to


To support the ward teams by being available to train new staff in the undertaking of physical health observations and admission checks to ensure compliance around physical health KPI's.

To ensure compliance by regular monitoring of appropriate IT systems and reports.

The post holder will maintain, develop and evidence their clinical knowledge, skills and competencies at all opportunities.


Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.


We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.


At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Clinical


To provide a high standard of clinical care for service users, under the supervision of the registered practitioner, acting within the standards, protocols and guidelines of the mental health service.


This will include:


  • Accepting clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload
  • Being accountable for own clinical practice
  • Ensuring that those aspects of service, delivered as part of remit, meet local quality standards
  • Ensuring that the dignity and respect of service users is maintained
  • Being proactive in maximising health, well being and social inclusion
  • Participating in relevant health promotion aspects of the service
  • Manage the daily care needs of a group of patients
  • The potential for delivery of care in a variety of settings (eg home, community, acute sector)
  • Obtaining informed consent prior to undertaking any procedure
  • Undertaking appropriate care tasks to allow the patient condition to be assessed and monitored
  • Recognise and respond appropriately to aggressive behaviour
  • Recognising when problems occur during an episode of treatment and alerting the appropriate professional staff
Assessment, Planning & Therapeutic Interventions

To define the assistant practitioners defined sphere of practice utilising the agreed framework/ role remit form.

To assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the needs of service users within the assistant practitioners defined sphere of practice.


This will include:


  • Support the assessment and management of patient care needs through initial data collection, monitoring of patients progress, feedback discussion reports and in care reviews with the clinical team
  • Undertake regular review of the patients health and social care needs as required against the care plan, take the appropriate action to achieve the planned aims
  • Participating in individual/group activities as required
  • Identifying the need for and initiating referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters ensuring that clients are referred to the relevant professionals for specific treatments/advice/support
  • Coordinate patient/client discharge or transfer, ensuring both health and social care needs are fully assessed
  • Preparing agreed assessment reports/treatment plans accurately in the accepted format
Communication & Interpersonal Skills

To maintain effective communication between individuals, relatives, carers and the multi-disciplinary team, enabling planned activities to provide effective outcomes


This will include:


  • Communicating and recording information accurately, sensitively and appropriately
  • Adopting strategies to identify and combat barriers to understanding
  • Promoting effective communica
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