Adult Mental Health Practitioner

Medirest Signature; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner specializing in adult mental health to join the Gateway Team in Aylesbury. The role involves conducting comprehensive assessments and making clinical decisions to support individuals facing urgent mental health challenges. With a commitment to professional development and the chance to innovate within a transformative service, applicants are invited from multiple disciplines, including nursing and social work.

Benefits

Excellent opportunities for career progression

27 days annual leave, increasing with service

NHS Discount across various retailers

Competitive pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Significant post qualification experience in a mental health setting.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Ability to manage a case load.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the main point of contact, making clinical decisions regarding referrals.
• Perform comprehensive triage functions including risk assessments.
• Support delivery of high-quality mental health provision into various services.

Skills

Autonomy

Clinical decision-making

Risk assessment

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

Registered qualification in nursing, social work, or occupational therapy

Job description

Do you want to work in a fast paced clinical environment supporting those with urgent mental health challenges?

We're recruiting aMental Health Practitionerspecialising in Adult mental health to join theGateway Team in Aylesbury!

We are looking for autonomous, driven, and confident practitioner(s). You will have the opportunity for continuing professional development (CPD), with scope to influence service innovation and development. You will also provide high-quality comprehensive telephone assessments for those identified as needing mental health support within a secondary mental health setting.

This is an exciting chance to develop your career and skills set in a highly innovative and transformative service.

Main duties of the job

• Serve as the main point of contact within the Gateway, making clinical decisions regarding referrals and providing advice and support to professionals, service users, and families
• Perform comprehensive triage functions in line with the Trusted Assessor Model, including risk assessment and evaluation of new referrals
• Provide specialist advice to referrers and liaise with service users to establish their current presentation, offer advice, and formulate management and safety plans while they await specialist assessment
• Support the delivery of high-quality link worker provision into primary care, secondary mental health services, social care partners, community-based resources, and the voluntary sector, including providing consultation and training to staff in various agencies
• Assist the Gateway/Team Operational Lead in delivering the service, ensuring it meets national guidance and local key performance indicators, and support the learning and development of new team members

Applicants must have a full valid driving license and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:“Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gateway Mental Health Practitioners are being recruited from a range of disciplines registered with a professional body;Occupational Therapists, Mental Health Social Workers, and Mental Health Nurses.all roles are vital to implementing specialist mental health triage functionality within Buckinghamshire. We welcome applications from all disciplines mentioned!

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to be fully qualified, have already passed your OSCE and have an NMC pin number or HCPC registration in order to be considered for this role.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, social work, occupational therapy.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and maintenance of relevant professional qualification

Desirable criteria

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma
• Teaching/mentoring qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with adults with mental illness.
• Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with adults who have serious mental illness and carers in the community

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• To have ability to manage case load and experience of acting as care coordinator for clients on a case list
• To be able to function as part of multi-disciplinary team and liaise with external agencies i.e. primary care, social and health care.
• To have ability to assess client need, both mental health, health and social needs

Desirable criteria

• To have knowledge and understanding of the research process

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.

Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.

We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.

Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.

We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing