Community Mental Health Practitioner

6 months ago

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

Are you a registered nurse or about to qualify?

Do you want an exciting and interesting job with a great carer potential?

Do you aspire to make a real positive contribution to nursing in the community and working within a Community Mental Health Team?

You will have opportunity to develop yourself, with extensive learning and development opportunities.

Who we are

The Huntingdon Adult Mental Health Team is a multidisciplinary team providing a Monday to Friday, 9-5 service to service users aged 17 and upwards, residing within Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and who are experiencing symptoms of moderate to severe mental illness. Huntingdon Adult Locality Team is based at The Newtown Centre, Huntingdon.
What this service does

The team assess, provide treatment, and signpost to relevant services and support in the community. Huntingdon Adult Locality Team is a continually developing service, delivering interventions including sensory integration, coping skills, compassion focused therapy and Brief Psychological Interventions. Our practitioners provide assessments, psychoeducation, risk formulation and management, relevant aspects of social inclusion, recovery and working in partnership with service users, to develop care plans, safety plans and discharge plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.

As a community mental health practitioner, you will be working as an autonomous practitioner within the multi-disciplinary team. You will provide high standard of care and interventions within a variety of settings including the service user's own home, with support from the wider team. The service user will be at the centre of care being provided, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.

You will be accountable for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating treatment to service users within professional guidelines. The service user needs will be identified through holistic nursing. You will have opportunity to provide support and education to peers, new staff and students.

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 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. The post holder will provide a good role model, develop and maintain good systems of communication, be able to communicate with a wide range of people in a range of situations.

2. Reporting verbally and in writing with regards to clients progress, assessments and care planning to the wider multi-disciplinary team.

3. Maintain accurate and complete records.

4. Discussing with client and their families / carers regarding care planning, assessments and treatment.

5. Be able to acknowledge the barriers to effective communication and adapt communication style in response.

6. The post holder will be involved in self-development and contribute to the development of others.

7. Engaging in reflective practice and implement evidence-base to practice, linking to appraisal standards.

8. Identification of individual development needs and accessing learning opportunities available.

10. Contribute to developing the workplace as a learning environment.

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