Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - Bath

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Midsomer Norton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced older adult clinician in the BaNES Older Adult Community Mental Health Team. This role involves providing vital mental health interventions and support to older adults, particularly those with complex dementia, within a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in working with older adults and dementia care is essential.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide therapeutic interventions for older adults with mental health challenges.
• Support individuals to enhance well-being and maintain independence.
• Assess care and support needs while managing risks.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Therapeutic interventions

Team collaboration

Education

Relevant mental health qualification

Job description

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced older adult clinician to join the BaNES Older Adult Community Mental Health Team, a well established, multi-disciplinary, integrated team.

Are you passionate about providing evidence based interventions to a cohort of older adults experiencing significant mental health challenges, and to individuals living with a complex dementia?

Are you passionate about the value of working in a multidisciplinary team, working alongside colleagues employed by the local authority in a highly collaborative way?

The post is based in Bath and North East Somerset, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a beautiful city, surrounded by amazing countryside locations, and offering an impressive variety of arts, culture and sports. Easily commutable from surrounding areas, including rail links to Bristol and beyond, there is staff parking available as well as access to pool cars, charge points for electric cares, and lock up facilities for those cycling to work.

Please do contact the team to discuss the role and consider whether BaNES CMHT would be the right team for you to join, at this exciting time, as the service is adapting in line with the Community Mental Health Framework.

Main duties of the job

You will be joining the team at a time when the key worker role (replacing care co-ordination) has been introduced. Your role will be to provide specific interventions to individuals across the workstreams, those individuals experiencing significant mental health needs, and those living with a dementia, in order to enhance their well being and maintain independence. This may involve working in a highly collaborative, holistic and solution focussed manner, delivering specific therapeutic interventions, supporting engagement with treatment, assessing and working with individuals in order to manage risks, assessing care and support needs, and supporting the introduction of appropriate care and support packages.

The post will offer the opportunity to develop and enhance supervisory skills, whilst providing supervision for both qualified and unqualified members of the team.