Facilitating Early Discharge Mental Health Practitioner

Band 6

Main area Community Nurse Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 351-BAY1091-MS

Site Home Based Treatment Team, Dane Garth, Furness General Hospital Town Barrow-in-Furness Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum (subject to confirmation) Salary period Yearly Closing 05/10/:59

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
• Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children's nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.

You will work closely with the inpatient wards in the Bay and HBTT to support patients be safely discharged to their own homes or appropriate accommodation. You will work to support patients be discharged from hospital and engage with HBTT. You will be focused on developing community links preventing hospital admission and will ensure the smooth transition for service users between specialist and mainstream services and other teams.

Main duties of the job

You will be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Approved Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Dip SW with evidence of professional development. You should have some post qualifying experience and should have experience of working with people who have a severe mental illness within an acute environment. Some experience of working within a community setting may also be beneficial.

We can offer you supervision, training and support. You will be part of a team and be included in the developments moving the service forward.

Working for our organisation

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person specification Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Practitioner

Experience

• Able to understand the difference between crisis planning and contingency planning and able to formulate explicit planning in these areas
• Demonstrate the ability to work sensitively in a non judgemental way with service users who are in crisis
• Assertiveness skills in relation to bed management
• Complete risk assessments which reflect the risk a service user may pose.

Knowledge

• Able to understand the difference between crisis planning and contingency planning and able to formulate explicit planning in these areas
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of the care pathways for psychosis and non psychosis and relevant interventions
• Understanding of how physical illness and substance misuse can affect the mental health of individuals
• Knowledge of Safeguarding procedures, Criminal Justice procedures, Mental Health legislation, guidance and processes,

You are advised to consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within four weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

Please note that further communication from LSCFT will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCFT to contact them.

Please ensure that you read the person specification as your application will be measured against this document.

If you use AI to assist with your application, you must declare this. Undeclared use may result in withdrawal. Please ensure your application reflects your own skills and experiences. While AI tools can assist, they may produce generic or inaccurate content. We encourage you to provide personal examples that demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. You are therefore advised to consider applying for this vacancy as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.