Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Scarborough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS trust providing mental health services in Scarborough is seeking a senior practitioner to join their multi-disciplinary team. You will deliver community interventions for individuals with varying needs and ensure recovery goals are prioritized. Ideal candidates will have 18 months post-qualifying experience and demonstrate excellent assessment and collaboration skills. Benefits include appraisal and supervision support, along with a commitment to staff and patient safety.

Benefits

Regular appraisal and supervision

Support from experienced leadership team

Qualifications

• 18 months post-qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.
• Enthusiastic approach towards personal and professional development.
• Willingness and ability to travel independently across the locality.

Responsibilities

• Participate in triage, complex assessments, and psychosocial interventions.
• Provide ongoing coaching support to junior colleagues.
• Ensure service users' recovery goals are central to care planning.

Skills

Leadership skills

Assessment skills

Interpersonal skills

Collaboration

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. You will be a core member of the team 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

• Participate in a range of interventions including triage, complex assessments, depot clinics, diagnostic assessments for the neurodiverse client group and psychosocial interventions.
• Provide ongoing coaching support, clinical and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and wider members of the MDT where required.
• Ensure that service users\' recovery goals are identified and central to care planning and intervention.

Qualifications and Requirements

• 18 months post-qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.
• Applications from Allied Health Professions are welcome; postholders from other backgrounds are not excluded.
• Enthusiastic approach towards personal and professional development.
• Willingness and ability to travel independently across the locality and access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes; adjustments considered under the Equality Act 2010 where necessary.
• We offer sponsorship for Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility.

Support and Benefits

You will receive regular appraisal, clinical, management and caseload supervision and benefit from the support of an experienced multi-disciplinary leadership team.

About Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is committed to protecting staff, service users and visitors from second-hand smoke and operates a no-smoking policy across buildings and grounds. We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby. Our teams work in partnership with patients, communities and partners to help people in our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for. We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help and ensure that everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated.

We are committed to new thinking that improves wellbeing and connect with our communities and partners to deliver mental health care where it is needed. We strive to ensure that people in our region have access to the mental health care they need to lead their best possible life. For new starters, we offer two start dates per month on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month.