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Location
Surrey | United Kingdom
Job description
Main Responsibilities - To plan, deliver and evaluate interventions for treatment as clinically appropriate using evidence based models - To set up processes/protocols for effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for those patients with physical and mental health and substance misuse problems. - To safeguard vulnerable patients in line with Trust safeguarding policy. - To apply local Risk Assessment and management protocols. - To make appropriate referral to other available services for longer term interventions. - Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused and integrated care and treatment programmes/packages. - To be aware of the appropriate handling of aggressive patients and the appropriate procedures for dealing with them. - Work collaboratively with staff of other disciplines e.g. supervisors and directors to provide integrated and coordinated care. - To work within own competency and ensure that any training needs are communicated to the team manager. - To participate in local audits and trust audits to enhance quality of care. To participate in clinical governance and utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the multi-disciplinary team. -To liaise with other professional services (hospital staff, GPs, caseworkers, sharing information where appropriate. - To work in a highly emotive atmosphere with clients with offending histories and / or mental health problems on a regular basis, and be able to communicate sensitive and complex information, whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times. - To attend and contribute to centre meetings as required, and to present the view of Healthcare Team for relevant clinical issues. To ensure any actions taken from these meetings are met or that the appropriate individual to carry out the action is informed. - To ensure that efficient pathways of care are being created for the trainees, including collecting collateral information for new trainees and making appropriate referrals into the community when they are approaching discharge. - To work closely with colleagues to ensure information in relation to risk is collected and communicated sensitively and comprehensively. - To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording. - To ensure that with all aspects of professional activity (e.g. communication with patients, relatives, colleagues as well as in the assessment, development/delivery of interventions) issues of diversity such as race, culture, identity, gender and sexuality are sensitively considered and incorporated to reflect individual differences appropriately
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£40.7k - £48.05k per annum
