Mental Health Practitioner - Homeless Service

NHS; Alberta; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Alberta is seeking an Outreach Mental Health Practitioner to provide support for individuals experiencing homelessness. The role involves engagement, assessment, and access to mental health services, requiring strong communication and organizational skills. Ideal candidates should have relevant qualifications in mental health nursing, occupational therapy, or social work. Work involves street outreach and collaborations with local organizations.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience providing care for individuals with mental health difficulties.
• Ability to engage with homeless populations.
• Understanding of community care and hospital processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide engagement, assessment, support for homeless individuals.
• Collaborate with multi-agency homeless services.
• Conduct street outreach and manage care in various settings.

Skills

Assessment skills

Risk management

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Ability to work autonomously

Education

Mental health or learning disability nursing qualification

Occupational therapy or social work degree

Job description

Band 6 - Outreach Mental Health Practitioner

Adult MH Planned Care Community Services Homeless Mental Health Service (HMHS)

Base: OSL House / Agile working) 1 x Full Time 37.5 Hrs per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a compassionate, enthusiastic, motivated, hardworking individual, with a mental health or Learning disability nursing, mental health occupational therapy or social work professional background to join the Homeless Mental Health service. Providing engagement, assessment, support & access to treatment services for people who are homeless, the role requires some street outreach to people rough sleeping, alongside the Council housing outreach teams.

This can involve significant walking, working in inclement weather, and often in challenging environments and potentially occasional limited out of hours working (6am start). Applicants must be prepared to undertake required duties as part of the HMHS. This post will require working primarily across Charnwood, NW Leicestershire, Hinckley & Blaby districts along with city centre clinics & street outreach, so ideally would suit someone living in the west / North West of Leicester / Leicestershire, in order to reduce home to work travel time and associated costs.

Operating from various locations and some home working. The core working pattern is Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm. Work may dictate some occasional out of hours working (enhancements paid).

Main duties of the job

The team is an active partner within the wider multi-agency statutory & voluntary sector homeless services within Leicester City, and as such the successful applicant would be expected to help facilitate this partnership, as well as assisting to develop the service and similar partnerships across the wider counties of Leicestershire & Rutland.

As the service develops across these districts the work will be allocated around existing staff locations to reduce mileage and travel time, however on occasion cover may be required for colleagues in other areas. Candidates will need to demonstrate an ability to provide care for people presenting with mental health difficulties within a variety of settings including day centres, hostels & temporary accommodation and general public settings (street outreach).

Excellent assessment, risk management, organisational and communication skills are essential along with a good working knowledge of community care & Hospital admission & discharge process. The ability to use your initiative, work autonomously and manage your time effectively is required along with the ability to work as part of a team and wider multi-agency homeless services.

Due to the unique role, it is recommended that applicants contact the team to discuss & ensure they are aware of the requirements of the role and the specific & unique working environments. Shadowing current MHPs is possible with prior arrangement.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community.

We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Job responsibilities

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.