Mental Health Practitioner

The Methodist Church in Britain; West Wick; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development opportunities

Wellbeing resources and support

Job summary

The post is an 11-month fixed-term senior clinician role in the perinatal mental health service covering Pennine Lancashire, offering autonomous caseload management within a multidisciplinary team. You will carry out specialist assessments, coordinate complex care for mothers and infants, supervise students and contribute to regional service development.

Registration as RMN, social worker or occupational therapist is required, with post-graduate community MH experience and skills in care

Qualifications

• Professional qualification as an RMN, social worker or occupational therapist.
• Post-graduate experience in a community mental health setting.
• Experience of care co-ordination and supervision.
• Ability to work autonomously within professional codes (NMC/HCPC/Regulation).

Responsibilities

• Carry out specialist assessments of women referred into the perinatal service.
• Act as Care Co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, managing complex packages of care for mother and infant.
• Act as an autonomous senior clinician with a defined caseload.
• Work within a multidisciplinary community mental health team delivering perinatal care.
• Contribute to developing and maintaining a region-wide perinatal service through liaison with organisations.
• Support and supervise staff and students in perinatal mental health.

Skills

Care coordination

Clinical supervision

Autonomous practice

Community mental health

Education

RMN

Social worker

Occupational therapist

Job description

This 11-month fixed-term post sits within the perinatal mental health service covering Pennine Lancashire, run by Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The work centres on specialist assessment of women referred into the service and co-ordinating complex care for mothers and their infants on an allocated caseload. It is a multidisciplinary community team role in which the post holder works as an autonomous senior clinician, with training offered to those new to perinatal care. Registration as an RMN, social worker or occupational therapist decides eligibility.

What the job involves

• Carry out specialist assessments of women referred into the perinatal service
• Act as Care Co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, managing complex packages of care for mother and infant
• Act as an autonomous senior clinician accountable for a defined caseload
• Work as a member of a multidisciplinary community mental health team offering perinatal care
• Contribute to developing and maintaining a region-wide perinatal service through collaboration and liaison with statutory and non-statutory organisations
• Help build local care networks for mothers across Lancashire and South Cumbria
• Manage own practice within the NMC Code or the British Association and College of Occupational Therapists' code, recognising limits and service users' civil rights
• Support, supervise and contribute to the professional development of health and social care staff in perinatal mental health
• Mentor, educate and supervise students from a range of disciplines

Qualifications

• Professional qualification as an RMN, social worker or occupational therapist
• Evidence of up-to-date training in contemporary mental health nursing or occupational therapy practice

Registration & licences

• Registration as an RMN (NMC), social worker (Social Work England) or occupational therapist (HCPC)

Experience

• Post-graduate experience in a community mental health setting
• Experience of community care co-ordination
• Experience of providing clinical supervision
• Broad range of therapeutic clinical skills, evidenced

Skills & knowledge

• Understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 (revised 2007)
• Understanding of the Children Act 1989
• Knowledge of safeguarding children within a specialist mental health setting
• Understanding of perinatal mental health problems
• Understanding of diversity and gender issues and how they relate to service provision

Other

• High-level written skills to compile reports, assessments and accurate service user records
• Basic IT and keyboard skills

Nice to have

• Previous perinatal mental health experience (advantageous, not required)

What’s offered

• Flexible working, with term-time, part-time, compressed hours and flexi-time considered
• Training and development opportunities
• Wellbeing resources and support through the trust's wellbeing offer