Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Peterlee; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Mental Health Trust in Peterlee is seeking a senior practitioner to join their multidisciplinary team. This role involves delivering interventions for clients with complex needs and requires excellent assessment and interpersonal skills. The candidate must have at least 18 months of post-qualifying experience and a commitment to personal development. The position offers ongoing support from a dedicated leadership team.

Qualifications

• 18 months post qualifying experience required.
• Enthusiastic approach towards personal and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Participate in interventions across Hub and Intervention teams.
• Provide coaching, clinical, and caseload supervision to junior colleagues.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Assessment skills

Teamwork

Coaching and supervision

Job description

Overview

As a registered professional 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 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 ensure that the service users' recovery goals are identified and central to their Safety plans, promoting social inclusion, independence and well-being. You will demonstrate excellent assessment skills, interpersonal, and team working skills and be able to work collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. 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.

Responsibilities

• The successful candidate will participate in a range of interventions working across the Hub and Intervention teams including triage, complex assessments, depot clinics, diagnostic assessments for the neuro diverse client group and psychosocial interventions.
• The successful candidate may also be required to provide ongoing coaching support, clinical and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and wider members of the MDT.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework., You will have an enthusiastic approach towards your own personal and professional development. In return, you will receive regular appraisal, clinical, management and caseload supervision and will benefit from the support of an experienced and committed multi-disciplinary leadership team.

About the Trust

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.