Trainee Mental Health Community Practitioner (Development Role)

Bidvane; West Midlands; Remote; GBP 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave entitlement

NHS pension

Unsocial hours pay

Flexible working

Maternity support

Health & wellbeing

Band 6 development plan

Supervision

Job summary

The Methodist Church in Britain invites applications for a development post within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, offering a pathway toward a Band 6 post. This full-time role involves population-based community mental health care, designing and running recovery-focused interventions and groups alongside primary care networks and partner agencies.

Applicants must have current professional registration and experience with risk assessment and multidisciplinary working, with flexibility to

Qualifications

• Current professional registration: NMC (RMN), HCPC (OT) or Social Work England (social work).
• Experience of risk assessment and multidisciplinary working.
• Experience in community mental health settings.
• Willing to travel and participate in locality duty system.

Responsibilities

• Be a key member of the multidisciplinary core team.
• Design and deliver recovery-focused mental health interventions and groups.
• Build relationships with primary care and partner agencies.
• Attend weekly MDT meetings and professionals' meetings.
• Signpost patients to adjunct services as needed.
• Support and guide carers of patients.
• Take part in the duty system and cover for absent workers.
• Shadow and participate in locality duty system when required.
• Gain experience across the Mental Health Service.

Skills

Risk assessment

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Community experience

Education

RMN nursing degree

BSc/Dip SW

BSc OT

Job description

This development post for a newly qualified nurse, occupational therapist or social worker sits in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, with a route to a Band 6 role. The work is population-based community mental health care, designing and running recovery-focused interventions and groups alongside primary care networks and partner agencies. It is full time and includes spells in other clinical areas and the locality duty system. Applicants need current professional registration and experience of risk assessment and multidisciplinary working.

What the job involves

• Work as a key member and resource of the multidisciplinary core team
• Design and deliver evidence-based, recovery-focused mental health interventions and groups
• Build relationships with primary care, partner agencies and wider mental health services
• Attend weekly MDT meetings and professionals' meetings
• Signpost patients to adjunct services according to need
• Give support and guidance to carers of patients using the service
• Take part in the duty system and manage patients when their allocated worker is absent
• Shadow and take part in the locality duty system where required
• Gain experience across the Mental Health Service, including time in other clinical areas
• Work flexibly as service demand requires

What’s required

Qualifications

• Relevant health or social care professional qualification in nursing (RMN), social work (BSc/Dip SW) or occupational therapy (BSc OT)

Registration & licences

• Current professional registration: NMC (RMN), HCPC (OT) or Social Work England (social work)

Experience

• Assessment and management of clinical risk
• Working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of working with this user group in community settings

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of mental health illnesses, including signs and symptoms
• Knowledge of principles of risk assessment and management
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2006 and other relevant legislation

Other

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post
• Willing to complete breakaway/de-escalation training
• Willing to shadow and take part in the locality duty system where required

Nice to have

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Assessment of people presenting with mental health problems
• Experience of working in a primary or secondary care setting
• Experience of delivering evidence-based psychosocial interventions
• Experience of delivering psychoeducation in group and 1:1 settings
• Experience of managing own caseload
• Some community experience, including as a student or before qualifying

What’s offered

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension
• Enhanced pay for unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Maternity, paternity and adoption support
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Developmental plan leading to a Band 6 post in the team
• Regular clinical and managerial supervision