Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Devon Partnership NHS Trust; Barnstaple; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health services provider in Barnstaple seeks a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to deliver high-quality services to adults facing complex mental health challenges. The candidate will manage a defined caseload, coordinate treatment plans collaboratively, and work within a multidisciplinary team. Applicants should have a professional mental health qualification and experience in community mental health settings. This role offers the chance to contribute significantly to the wellbeing of the local community.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training and development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Must possess a professional mental health qualification.
• Evidence of relevant continuing professional development required.
• Experience in mental health and multi-disciplinary working is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services.
• Manage a defined caseload focusing on complex mental health difficulties.
• Liaise with family, carers, and partner agencies.

Skills

Assessment and care planning

Communication skills

Clinical judgement

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Creativity and innovation

Education

Professional mental health qualification (RMN, Social Work Degree, etc.)

Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism

Leadership/management training

Job description

Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within the Taw Core Adult Mental Health Team based at West Pilton Health & Wellbeing Clinic, Barnstaple.

As part of Devon Partnership Trust, the team at West Pilton provides mental health treatments and interventions to adults of working age across rural and coastal demographics that combine to make this a fascinating and beautiful area to work.

The candidate will be joining a dynamic, motivated and skilled service helping the team to build upon their achievements and continue to work to improve the interventions that they provide.

Devon Partnership NHS Trust is growing as we establish ourselves us as one of the leading providers of mental health services in the country.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health difficulties. Liaising with the persons family, carers and partner agencies to provide and balanced and informed approach.

Adopting a recovery co-ordination approach to mutually design a personalised plan of treatment packages that is agreed by the individual and evaluated to evaluate efficacy and patient experience.

We are looking for someone with enthusiasm and energy who wants to make a difference to peoples lives; is creative, innovative and highly motivated. You must have assessment and care planning skills and experience in mental health and multi-disciplinary working is desirable.

You will need to have excellent communication skills, be able to exercise clinical judgement in respect of assessing and managing risk. In addition, you need to be committed to the values and principles of recovery, and able to help deliver a safe, timely, caring and responsive service. This is a really great opportunity to join the Taw Core team at an interesting and exciting time as we work towards transforming our community service so that we offer the best and most comprehensive care to the people of Taw.

About us

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role.

The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health difficulties and their carers. This will include recovery co-ordination (design and co-ordination of treatment packages that are personalised and evaluated in line with payment by results). To provide statutory Adult Social Care, Care Management functions (assessment, care planning and reviewing). The liaison with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role.

The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other members and participating in team and service development, and evaluation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A professional mental health qualification eg RMN, Social Work Degree or equivalent, BSc/Diploma in OT, SROT, Chartered Clinical Psychologist, on the appropriate professional body register and hold current registration with no restrictions.
• Evidence of relevant continuing professional development
• Mentoring students in line with professional requirements
• A recognised relevant qualification in pharmacy or nursing
• Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism
• Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff
• Evidence of leadership/management training within a core service

Experience

• Extensive post registration experience working at band 5 in mental health care working in at least two inpatient and one community settings or substantial experience in both inpatient and community settings within a mental health and/or learning disabilities setting?;
• Evidence of acting as nurse in charge on a regular basis;
• Substantial experience of managing/leading a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health conditions within a community setting and without supervision;.
• Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
• Experience of clinically supervising junior and unqualified staff and mentoring students
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• Participation in user involvement in services.
• Experience in deputising for more senior staff
• Evidence of following through specific pieces of work or projects as delegated by ward managers or others

Other

• The ability to travel to meet the requirements of the role

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.