Focused Care Pathway Practitioner

The East Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) are looking for a skilled Senior Mental Health Practitioner to work within the service's Shared Care and duty team. The purpose of this is to provide consistent and pre-planned crisis care for patients within our caseload who are experiencing a decline in their mental health and require extra support. The shared care team are part of the multi-disciplinary team and are centre to the daily functions of the CMHT. The role covers a wide range of interventions and communication with primary and secondary care is critical in making sure that the patients are at the centre.,

• To participate in weekly team meetings, communicating service user needs and
be able to assist in prioritising the allocation of workload. To work in a focused way with patients to achieve goals identified by the patient. To contribute to the weekly multi-disciplinary meeting where service user's presenting with an increased level of need are discussed and to present cases, on a rota basis, for team review. To formulate care plans in line with identified need and review in line with the Trust Care Programme Approach and Care Planning Policy. To provide clinical supervision and caseload management to support workers. To provide therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment, utilising psycho-social interventions and CBT based treatment To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review and adjust in line with the service user's needs.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives. Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence