Mental Health Practitioner

1 month ago

Bedford, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Bedford Community Mental Health teams (part of East London Foundation Trust) are seeking enthusiastic and motivated Mental Health Nurses and Social Workers to join our forward-thinking and dynamic team.

You as a post holder will hold a caseload and be working collaboratively with all the secondary mental health services including Primary Care Mental Health Link Practitioners, the primary care services, and the Voluntary and Private Sector to contribute to providing a Recovery focused model of care.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To be responsible for an identified community caseload, ensuring high standard of professional conduct to comply with best practice and professional accountabilities.

To promote a service user focussed service

Participate in audits and survey relevant to the team

To participate in development of new policies and procedures as required

Ensure that clients receive a culturally competent service

To co-ordinate the day-to-day activity and manage the workload of the Team

To ensure the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act (1983) and subsequent amendments are adhered to

To establish and maintain good relationships with service users, carers and voluntary sector colleagues

To provide best evidence practice to service users which complies with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant quality, governance and local and national guidelines.

Liaise with General Practice and Primary Care colleagues to promote partnership working
- Ensuring that the local demographics are taken into consideration for service provision and improvement

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

Within this team, you will have access to various career growth opportunities such as;
Advance Clinical Practice training and Approve mental health practitioner course

Psychosocial intervention trainings

Regular Nurses forums and seminars
- where nurses across the trust can come together, share ideas, improve practice and collaborate to fulfil requirements of CPD.

We understand that this may be your first job in the community mental health services, however we are committed in supporting our staff with their wellbeing, training and career development. Continuous professional support is given throughout your career with us and unique skills and achievements are highly recognised and celebrated Trust wide

We welcome applicants from all sections of the community to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve.

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