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This is a rare opportunity to join the Ferndown and West Moors Older Persons Community Mental Health Team at Oakley House in Wimborne.

This multi-disciplinary team provides recovery focused treatment plans for those people who are 65 and over with SMI or who have organic mental ill health including Alzheimer's disease.

The team is supportive and proactive both to service users and colleagues alike. We have a good record for retention of staff and are always looking for ways to improve our services and maintain high standards of care for those we serve.

This is a challenging job, but if you’re ready for this then we are looking for someone who is reliable, committed and motivated with excellent communication, organisational skills and the ability to prioritise. We offer our team structured management supervision and a supportive team environment. In addition we commit to facilitating you with your own professional development.

The team adapted its working practices to deal with the COVID pandemic utilising remote technologies, this will allow the applicant to do some working from home. However the expectation is that staff will be mostly office base. There is good peer support in the team in addition to the wellbeing options offered by Dorset Healthcare

We encourage you to contact us to arrange an informal visit, come and meet the team and ask us any questions about the role.
- To provide a comprehensive, accessible and responsive mental health service to persons over 65 and their families within a defined locality.
- To manage a caseload of patients with a mixture of functional and organic disorders
- To continually develop clinical, team and service evaluation and delivery of service.
- To contribute to effective multi-disciplinary working within the community mental health service and to build up effective liaison with community, primary, and other secondary and tertiary services/agencies within the locality to provide holistic care based on the individual’s need and service development.

The team office is in Wimborne and the post holder will travel from there to visit patients in the Ferndown and West Moors locality. The post holder will need to have the ability to travel by car, with business insurance, as they will be required to assess and monitor patients in their own homes and within other community or inpatient settings.

At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2019. It’s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you’re looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do, and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities, and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you’ll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don’t know. And you’ll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion, and expertise in all we do.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.