Job summary
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Come and join the 'Highly Commended team of the year' as nominated in the REACH awards 2023 .
Greenfields Community Mental Health Team are looking to recruit a full time Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner.
If you have good clinical skills and are motivated to further develop your knowledge and practice and want to work as part of a large MDT this role is perfect for you.
Within the role there is opportunity to work autonomously as well as contributing to the team and being supported by the MDT.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will hold a caseload and undertake the role of care-co-ordinator for adults with moderate to severe mental health difficulties, working as an autonomous and accountable practitioner within a multidisciplinary team.
Offer support to junior staff.
Carry out the role of duty professional following a period of shadowing.
Support the delivery of group interventions.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion teamwork and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To always act in accordance with their respective professional bodies Code of Professional Conduct, Trust Policies and occupational protocols.
- To perform all aspects of the role in accordance with Trust policies and other national bodies.
- To work with a defined caseload of service users as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing assessment, care planning and care delivery for service users with complex and multiple conditions. This will include the provision of highly skilled clinical interventions, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management and promoting recovery and inclusion and ensuring patient centred practice with service users and their carers.
- To provide specialist advice to other members of staff.
- To provide leadership, management and supervision / appraisal for junior multi-disciplinary staff and lead / coordinate / supervise teams of staff in the delivery and evaluation of care.
- To liaise with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and outside agencies in the implementation of patient care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional registration (Nursing, Social Care, OT)
- Experience in Adult Mental Health.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working therapeutically in community settings
- Experience of working with a range of statutory, non-statutory agencies
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment
- Knowledge of the principles of Care co-ordination
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Thomas
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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