Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Practice 

1.       Undertake quality comprehensive mental health assessment, including comprehensive risk assessment and safety planning for service users. 

2.       To provide primary care services with rapid access to specialist mental health advice and Support and to enable them to deal more effectively with a range of mental health problems.

3.       To provide information and sign posting support for service users and their relatives/carers about functional and organic mental health disorders.

4.       To ensure when needed that people experience a seamless transfer into AWP provider/treatment services.

5.       Following assessment, to provide short-term follow up of patients where appropriate.

6.       To support the advice of medication management in collaboration with the team Consultant Psychiatrist and GP trainees.

7.       To ensure the active involvement of carers and family members during all stages of assessment processes.

8.       To raise awareness of the effects of physical conditions on the mental health of service users.

9.       Lead, maintain and participate in practices that enable collaborative working with the team and a multidisciplinary approach to holistic care needs.

Record Keeping & Administration 

1.       Keep contemporaneous, chronological and accurate mental health records in accordance with Trust policy, professional guidelines and local team standard operating procedures. 

2.       Collect and input information and appropriate statistics for providing overall information about clinical activity. 

3.       Use time effectively and make appropriate use of resources. 

4.       Attend business meetings and participate in clinical discussion, presenting complex cases when appropriate. 

Clinical Liaison  

1.       Provide effective communication both within AWP and with Primary Care, Social Services and a range of other voluntary and statutory organisations. 

2.       Sensitively and appropriately, communicate with colleagues, service users, carers and relatives. 

3.       Operate within the Multi Agency Policy on Safeguarding and act in accordance with AWP safeguarding polices and procedures.  

Continuing Professional Development and Practice 

1.       Maintain and develop professional knowledge skills and expertise, to ensure that practice reflects best practice and remain current and evidence based. 

2.       Act in accordance within the guidelines from your professional body. 

3.       To assist and participate in appropriate service development reforms.

4.       Work to the policies and procedures of the Trust. 

5.       Ensure knowledge of and work to any local team policies and procedures. 

6.       Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant medicines, related medication management issues and act in accordance with NMC guidelines. 

7.       Take responsibility for post-registration education and practice requirements for continued professional development needs. 

8.       Ensure the provision and fully participate in the clinical and management supervision and appraisal process. 

9.       Actively participate in the Trust's policy of appraisal and staff development.

10.   Maintain up to date knowledge and skills of appropriate IT systems. 

Teaching, Education and Audit 

1.       Contribute to the provision of an appropriate learning environment for pre and post registered students and new team members and act as a mentor for nursing students.

2.       Provide formal feedback from training sessions attended.

3.       Identify, initiate and support the development of improvements in the service, including clinical audit.

Management

1.   Provide supervision for other staff members both qualified and unqualified as required by the Team Manager/Senior Practitioner. 

2.    Lead on agreed service development initiatives or represent the team.