Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Tees, Esk And Wear Valleys Nhs Foundation Trust

Harrogate

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 48,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior practitioner to lead community assessments and interventions in Harrogate. You will triage, perform complex assessments, manage risk, and deliver evidence-based care in partnership with families, carers and statutory partners.

You will provide supervision and coaching to junior staff, maintain your own caseload, and contribute to service development while supporting wellbeing and recovery for adults with complex needs.

Qualifications

Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
18 months post-qualifying experience including sign-off of preceptorship/competency framework.
Recognised sign-off mentor or clinical educator.
ITQ level 2 (or equivalent) literacy, numeracy and IT skills.

Responsibilities

Triage, complex assessments and risk management.
Deliver evidence-based interventions and participate in coaching and supervision of junior colleagues.
Manage a personal caseload with assessments, care coordination and community-based interventions.
Collaborate with statutory and third-sector agencies to promote holistic wellbeing and recovery.
Lead with multidisciplinary teams to support service development and senior practitioner roles.

Skills

Professional communication

Clinical supervision

Team collaboration

Mentoring/teaching

Assessment/triage

Education

Current professional registration with an approved body

Tools

IT skills

CPD documentation tools

Job description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Harrogate and Ripon Community Treatment Team based in Harrogate. The post would be an ideal developmental post for someone looking to develop their community assessment and intervention skills. Anyone applying from a different environment that is looking to develop their skills would be supported by the leadership team members to ensure their wellbeing was maintained. As a senior practitioner you will have a genuine interest in collaborative working with people of varying ages and complex needs, including service users, Carers, families and our partners including statutory and voluntary agencies. The successful candidate's role will include triage, complex assessments and risk management, deliver evidence-based interventions training will be provided to support a purposeful service user journey whilst with the team as well as provide ongoing coaching support, clinical and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and wider members of the MDT. Candidates must hold 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the point of application.

Main duties of the job

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to develop their leadership and clinical skills in a community setting. As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, mostly providing assessments, care co-ordination and delivering intervention in the community with people who have complex needs ranging from mild to moderate level of need to severe and enduring level of need and complexity. You will demonstrate excellent assessment and analysis skills, interpersonal, communication and team working skills. You will need to be committed to working collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies to promote holistic wellbeing and recovery focused care. The Integrated Community Team is a lively, dynamic, and supportive multi-disciplinary team committed to collaboration and joint working. You will support the team's improvement activities for co-creation, aiming to deliver care that is highly personalised to each individual's needs and working closely with families, paid and unpaid carers. You will be encouraged and supported to bring your skills and experience to contribute to our team and locality's service development and continuous improvement and innovation endeavours. The team are committed to providing excellent evidence-based quality care to the adult population. It is imperative that the successful candidate has a flexible pro-active approach to their person-centred practice.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby. From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for. We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health. We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it. We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information and to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

We encourage interested professional to get in touch with us to discuss the role and our services. It may also be possible for you to arrange a visit to meet the team prior to interview.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework. (at the point of application)
Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Desirable

Leadership or management qualification
Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area

Experience

Essential

Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement.
Working in a multi-disciplinary team
Quality improvement activities

Desirable

Leadership or management experience
Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment.

Knowledge

Essential

Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
Research and development methodology.
Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment

Desirable

The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hummingbird House
31-33 Victoria Avenue
Harrogate
HG1 5QE
United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Team Manager
Poppy Danahay
poppy.danahay@nhs.net
01423852000