Community Mental Health Nurse / Mental Health Social Worker

NHS; Oswestry; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a dedicated Community Mental Health Practitioner to join their expanding team. This role offers a unique opportunity to support individuals with severe mental health issues and contribute to a multi-disciplinary service. You will engage in comprehensive assessments and provide essential support to colleagues while promoting mental health awareness. Enjoy generous benefits, including flexible working options and extensive health support, as you make a meaningful impact in your community. This is a chance to grow your career in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

Flexible working options

Up to 27 days annual leave

Health and Wellbeing support

Paid travel time between patients

Lease car options

Salary sacrifice bikes

Free car parking

Free flu vaccinations

Citizens Advice support

Qualifications

• Experience with complex mental health needs and emotional instability.
• Registered qualification in mental health nursing or social work.

Responsibilities

• Conduct holistic assessments and risk management for clients.
• Provide consultation and support to colleagues and stakeholders.

Skills

Holistic Assessment

Risk Management

Trauma-Informed Practice

Communication Skills

Crisis Intervention

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Social Work Qualification

Qualification in Psychological Interventions

Tools

DBT

CBT

EMDR

Job description

Community Mental Health Nurse / Mental Health Social Worker

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner to work within our Community Mental Health Service. The service offers support to people with severe & enduring mental illness as well as a comprehensive brief intervention system for people requiring a specialist mental health short term service.

The service has bases at Oswestry and at Market Drayton and covers a geographic area across north Shropshire. You will need to travel independently over a large geographical area and will require suitable transport.

This service is expanding, and it is an exciting time to join the service as a highly skilled NMC Registered Nurse or Social Work England Registered Social Worker.

North Shropshire Community Mental Health Team is a multi-disciplinary service providing assessment and intervention for adults experiencing complex emotional and mental health difficulties as part of the Adult Mental Health Service.

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health Community Practitioner you will be expected to undertake holistic comprehensive assessments and formulation of complex clinical presentations, including risk assessments and risk management.

The role will involve:

• Contributing to the service Duty System, where you will be required to make telephone triage assessments, consider the urgency of the callers referral and make immediate decisions with the callers to ensure safety planning whilst discussing an initial care pathway / signpost for the person.
• There will be a requirement to undertake the role of named worker for a caseload of service users.
• Participate in both delivering and receiving a range of clinical supervision and professional and clinical development within the pathway.
• Provide consultation, support and specialised higher level knowledge regarding mental health to colleagues, stakeholders, partners and VCSE colleagues working within a range services, including primary care, Local Authority and other areas of the Trust where identified as appropriate.
• Having an embedded understanding and experience of Trauma informed Practice would be an advance. Having an understanding of societal discrimination, health inequality and the impact would equally be of high value in this role.
• As a social worker there is no Statutory requirements within this role. We would support AMHP & BIA career training and have partnerships with Shropshire Local Authority.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job responsibilities

Please check out the below videos showcasing why MPFT is a great place to work and to grow your career:

Why Work for Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube

Development and Progression Within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following in CMHN, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Psychological Therapy
• Post qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses and training relevant to people with complex mental health needs related to emotional instability
• Qualification in psychological interventions such as DBT, SCM, CBT, EMDR, MBT, relevant to a client group with complex mental health needs

Experience

• Experience of working with a client group who present with difficulties relating to emotional dysregulation, high risk challenging and chaotic behaviour, highly complex needs relating to trauma
• Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services
• Experience of working with people engaging in high risk behaviours and self harm
• Experience of working within a structured therapeutic model individually and in group settings
• Experience of facilitating psycho-educational and/or skills based groups

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.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust