Mental Health Practitioner

6 months ago

Huntingdon, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The service supports working-age adults who have moderate to severe affective and psychotic disorders. The teams offer support in a number of ways, drawing from the expertise of such a variety of disciplines.

**To be right for this job**:
You have a degree or relevant professional registration as a Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social worker and will be an active member of a dynamic, highly motivated, skilled and creative team

You will be working in a supportive environment that values your supervision and professional development

You will have a voice and role to play in service development

You will have the opportunity to manage a caseload of diverse service users, delivering a diverse range of clinical skills and building a therapeutic and recovery based relationship.

Recovery principles are embedded in the work of the locality teams and we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy and developing meaning and purpose in life.

You will be involved in the delivery of care-coordination to a specified caseload, a daily duty service, ongoing risk management, care planning, support around benefits and housing, carers’ assessments, physical health care and a wide variety of therapeutic interventions for which you can access training and supervision. You will also be involved in ensuring that the service is a positive learning environment for students from various disciplines.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

1. To undertake assessment of individuals and their families/carers accessing the service with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk.

2. To develop alongside the service user, their care plan.

3. To offer specialist professional assessment and advice where required.

4. To assess and manage on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers.

5. To regularly review risk factors and make changed to the management of them as necessary.

6. To work using assertive outreach approaches to engage the service user and their families.

7. To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust nursing strategy.

8. To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.

9. To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.

10. To act within the professional code of conduct at all times.

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