Mental Health Practitioner

NHS Jobs; Chapel-en-le-Frith; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Band 5 Registered Practitioner to consolidate pre-registration education and develop enhanced knowledge within the patient pathway. You will establish operational and clinical mechanisms to support safe, responsive, and high-quality care around the clock, supervising support workers in your field.

The post holder will work within the Crisis Resolution, Home Treatment Team and the Community Mental Health Team (Living Well), delivering

Job description

As a Band 5 Registered Practitioner, the post holder will be consolidating pre-registration education and developing enhanced knowledge and skills within the patient pathway, and contributing to evidence-based professional practice. The post holder will be responsible for establishing operational and clinical service mechanisms that support safe, responsive and high quality care throughout the twenty-four hour period. The post holder will present a positive, professional image to service users, carers and the community as a whole. You will have responsibility of supervision for support workers relevant to your profession and sphere of knowledge. As a member of the Crisis Resolution, Home Treatment Team, and the Community Mental Health Team (Living Well), you will be expected to adopt the philosophy of each service and provide flexible, responsive, proactive and interactive assessment, care and management to individuals experiencing ongoing and early signs of relapse or new acute phase mental health problems. Within the CRHTT model, All interventions will be short term; solution- focused and build on maintaining the safety, well being and empowerment of the service user and their Carers / family during this period. The team will provide a proven research based alternative to hospital admission, and where admission is required will act as gatekeeper to the admission and will facilitate early discharge. The adult community mental health Living well service model will see you working with service users in both our Short term and Long term model, including engaging and supporting senior clinicians in our Managing emotions pathway and Trauma stabilisation pathway. The post holder will be able to sustain a respectful, consistent and reliable therapeutic relationship with service users that enhance their ability to build social networks and work in partnership with Housing Association, Mental Health Teams, Support Networks, Primary Health Care Teams and other Statutory, Voluntary and Independent agencies, ensuring social inclusion for service users. It is essential that you, as the post holder, will embed Trust values in care delivery services, as this is necessary to achieve our ambition as being one of the top five providers of health care within the country. Our Trust vision is aspirational, yet realistic, and is based on a thorough understanding, of our strengths and weaknesses. We put our patients at the centre of everything we do We focus on our people We involve our people in making decisions We deliver excellence Please note that this post will see you working within two teams including the crisis resolution & home treatment team and our Community Mental health team (Living well service). This is a development role and will see you split across the two bases each week.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust