Mental Health Practitioner

Calling all Band 5 mental health practitioners, come and work for us

Registered Mental Healthpractitioner - Band 5 - Somerset

Are you an experienced or newly qualified Mental Health practitioner? We want to hear from you

Enjoy working in Somerset with rolling countryside and beautiful scenery

Great working relationships with Voluntary sector, the primary care networks and Neighbourhood teams

Great opportunities to develop whilst you work including PCAR course and non-medical prescribing

Acting as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence based interventions using a collaborative, recovery approach and will be skilled at positive risk management. The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other team members, as agreed with the Team Manager, and participate in team and service development and evaluation.

The post holder will provide a high standard of care and treatment for patients and work with other members of the team and other agencies to best meet the patients’ health and social needs.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS
- Supervisor/Line Manager
- Service Users/Patients
- Carers
- Intensive Dementia Support Service Staff
- Medical staff
- AHP Colleagues
- Inpatient Staff
- CMHT Staff
- Crisis Staff
- Administrative Staff
- Mendip Neighbourhood Teams
- Voluntary and Community Service
- Adult Social Care

As an organisation, the NHS offers include a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, annual leave allowance, career progression and regular supervision, not to mention Blue light card and NHS discounts

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone’s throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment safely and effectively, in partnership with medical team and nurses, service user and carers, using evidence based practice.
- To actively participate in the development of the Neighbourhood Team, supporting new systems and processes and the wider integration of community services.

Analytics
- To ensure relevant information is available for people who use services and their carers and staff and distribute.
- To complete all required statistical returns promptly and efficiently using the Trusts’ computerised system.

Responsibility for Patient / Client Care, Treatment & Therapy
- Undertaking care coordination responsibilities with a defined caseload focusing on work with people experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties and other complex needs and difficulties in the community.
- To undertake the assessment of patients referred to the Older Persons’ Mental Health Service using a recovery approach and strengths model. Undertake the assessment of risk and nursing needs and contribute to the multi-disciplinary team care plan, memory assessments, under the development and implementation of individual care plans for the client.
- To actively participate in Primary Care Network Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings in Mendip discussing PCN patients, including care home residents
- To provide high quality patient care, working in a flexible way across the community, and day hospital, as required, focussing on the need to support patients and their families/carers.
- To fully comply with the Trust and Local Authority Policies relating to the ICPA/Care Management and act as a key-worker for patients.
- Use interpersonal skills to build a therapeutic relationship with patients.
- To provide support and interventions to patients in their own homes (including care homes) to enable them to remain in the community during crisis periods.
- Providing and receiving highly complex and sensitive information in relation to Safeguarding and Child Protection work and taking appropriate action. This includes identifying and appropriately reporting concerns to Children’s Social Care while using communication skills in order to maintain a professional working relationship with parents and significant others in often hostile and highly emotive situations.
- Communicating highly complex, sensitive and emotive information at Child Protection Conferences.
- Identifying adult protection concerns, raising alerts and participating in Safeguarding Adults processes
- To ensure effective, planned handover of care.
- To ensure comprehensive risk assessment of patients and risk management plans are in place and clearly documented in accordance with the Trusts’ Policy.
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