HTT Senior Practitioner / Deputy Manager

An opportunity has opened for aspiring RMN's to join our HTAS accredited Kensington and Chelsea Home Treatment Team in the heart of Kensington and Chelsea., where you will be afforded the time and space to develop into a more enhanced and effective community practitioner.
We are looking for a practitioner who can provide strong clinical direction and leadership (and along with the Manager, management responsibility) to all staff members in the Home Treatment Team to ensure that patients and their carers receive safe, high quality mental health care as an alternative to inpatient admission. The post-holder will be instrumental in ensuring team members feel well supported, and developing and sustaining good relationships with the acute inpatient services trust wide, LPS, MHCAS and Community mental health teams.
They will be supported and supervised by the Kensington and Chelsea HTT Manager.
Kensington and Chelsea is a busy and diverse borough and you will be joining a friendly and supportive MDT team.
The team works 365 days a year. You are expected to work a mixture of LDs (8-20:30) and management days (9-5) across 7 days however there is a degree of flexible.
The team is split into 2 hubs , so you are expected to work across both., This role includes safety managing and providing an effective home treatment service to our patients through a senior nurse role. You must support the team's adherence to the Quality Network for Crisis and Home Treatment Teams (QN-CRHTT) Standards set by the Royal College of Psychiatry.
You are expected to work in collaboration with the Team Manager, other clinical leads and urgent care seniors and to have a close relationship with the community teams, MHCAS, Single Point of Access, Liaison Teams and other services we work with., 1. To ensure that good working relationships are maintained within the multi-disciplinary team, and with external agencies, through effective and clear communication.
2. To take a lead role in setting and maintaining standards of care within the Home Treatment Team (HTT), in consultation with the HTT Manager and Senior Practitioner
3. To take a lead role in providing comprehensive, culturally appropriate, evidence based initial assessment of people referred to the HTT, determining the specific care needs of the individual and positively managing risk indicators.
4. To maintain an environment in which there is equal opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
5. To ensure the safe and effective delivery of care to service users, utilising the knowledge and skills of staff, whilst recognising and working towards helping them manage their stress in this demanding area of work.
6. To promote a positive image of the service to its users, their carers, family and partners, and through liaison with all other agencies.
7. Participate as an active member of the team, accountable for your practice, and work in partnership with other health care professionals, service users and others in the delivery of care.
8. To identify Adult Protection and Child Protection issues and to implement procedures as required.
9. To act as Safeguarding lead for the team, ensuring that all aspects of Safeguarding legislation and guidance are adhered to within the working practices of the HTT, and highlighting to Managers were there are Safeguarding issues with any services users HTT caseload.
10.To take a lead role in developing good standards of practice in relation to the administration and management of medication, in line with NMC guidelines and Trust Policy, and to develop user-centred medication concordance, informing and educating users and carers about medication issues as a part of empowering them and preventing relapse.
11.To assess clients' housing, financial, vocational and other practical needs, taking steps to meet them as appropriate in consultation with CMHT Care Co-ordinators, liaising with housing and benefits offices, and administering payments of monies from the CRT petty cash budget where appropriate.
12.To provide support, information and training to family members, carers and other professionals, within the constraints of client confidentiality, and to work with the client's system which may itself be in crisis.
13.To take a lead role in ensuring effective and timely throughput and discharge from the team.
14.To take a lead in implementing and co-ordinating the shifts, ensuring a comprehensive service to clients, prioritising work and monitoring staff activity, and using the team diary, with a view to safety and accountability.
15.To become fully conversant with statutory and non-statutory services in the borough and across the Trust, and promote effective liaison and operational links as appropriate.
16.To screen and prioritise referrals to the HTT.
17.To undertake initial assessments of service users accepted by the HTT, and take a lead role in the development and implementation and evaluation of their individual treatment plans.
18.To work closely with the first response team to ensure that effective face to face gatekeeping is undertaken for everybody referred to acute in-patient services and that care is undertaken wherever possible in their own home.
19.To ensure that discharge from in-patient care is facilitated as soon as possible based on risk to self and others.
20.To actively participate in the management of patient flow for the service including acting as the Patient Flow Co-ordinator.
21.To take a lead in problem solving and finding solutions, where conflict exists in relation to decision making around appropriate care for a service user.
22.To act as an expert practitioner and provide advice and support to other members of the team
23.To demonstrate risk assessment and management skills, practising safely and according to individual service users needs.
24.To ensure that team members are deployed effectively each shift in order to maximise the time spent with people using the service.
25.To liaise effectively with referrers and Community Recovery Team, promoting good working relationships and continuity of clinical care.
26.To recognise the role of advocacy and promote concepts of empowerment and recovery.
27.To provide support, information and education to family members, carers and other professionals.
28.To demonstrate clinical knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions to use with individuals experiencing acute mental health problems.
29. To support the team's adherence to the Quality Network for Crisis and Home Treatment Teams (QN-CRHTT) Standards set by the Royal College of Psychiatry.
Training:
1. To be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of an effective framework for supervision within the team.
2. To deliver management supervision to members of the team.
3. To be available to receive clinical and managerial supervision.
4. To contribute to the planning of induction programmes for all staff and to identify the individual educational needs of staff.
5. Ensure that the mandatory training requirements of all staff are met so that professional and legal requirements are fulfilled.
6. Ensure that an active in-house clinical education programme exists which ensures that staff are able to carry out their role to a high standard and allows them to develop skills and competencies in interventions whose efficiency is supported by research evidence.
7. Provide education and training within the team and the Trust in relation to your sphere of specialist knowledge.
8. To participate in relevant academic meetings and teaching sessions.
9. To facilitate the learning environment for pre and post registration students.
10.To be prepared to undertake further training.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
There's a place for you at CNWL
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
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