Mental Health Practitioner

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join a leading healthcare provider in Tunbridge Wells. This role focuses on delivering high-quality mental health care in a Primary Care setting, bridging the gap between services. Ideal for registered professionals looking to make a significant impact in mental health support.

Qualifications

• Experience in Primary Care or Community Mental Health Team setting.
• Ambition and drive to work in an environment of change and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality Mental Health care in a Primary Care setting.
• Provide early assessment and access to treatment and support.

Skills

Assessment Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Occupational Therapist

Social Worker

Job description

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to work within the Tunbridge Wells Primary Care Network.

This role is part of the Additional Role Reimbursement Scheme, which aims to bridge the gap between Primary Care and Secondary Mental Health services by delivering high quality Mental Health care in a Primary Care setting.

This position provides a wonderful opportunity for a registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker to improve the experience for individuals with mental health needs, through offering early assessment and access to treatment and support to promote mental health and wellbeing in primary care, as well as getting involved in transformational work across the primary care network.

The role requires a practitioner with excellent assessments skills and who enjoys working autonomously, whilst demonstrating excellent communication skills to enable effective interdisciplinary working across a wide multi-disciplinary team.

Applicants will ideally have experience of working in a Primary Care and/or Community Mental Health Team setting and above all have the ambition and drive needed to work within an environment of change and innovation.

The successful applicant will have access to regular supervision with a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, Professional Supervision, Group Peer Supervision and day to day support from members of the multi-disciplinary team.

A valid driving licence and access to a car are essential to this role due to the service requirements of working across multiple sites.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day

We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future

To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Hodge Job title: General Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07919298115

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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