Mental Health Practitioner

6 months ago


Croydon, United Kingdom NHS Professionals Full time

The South London & Maudsley NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health services to people of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth, and Croydon as well as substance misuse services for people in Bexley, Greenwich, and Bromley. The Trust provides specialist services to people from across the UK.

It has approximately 4,800 staff and a budget of £300 million. The trust also works closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Their scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
- Experience with working with people of the age group of 18-65
- MDT experience
- Correct registration body
- Knowledge of trust recording system (ePJS) and knowledge of local services beneficial

**In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of**:

- Relevant Qualifications
- Registration with the relevant Registration Body

**Role responsibilities**:

- To be responsible for the assessment of newly referred adults who may be undergoing their first psychotic episode. To work with diagnostic uncertainty, providing ongoing comprehensive assessment and outcome monitoring of all caseload service users.
- To assertively outreach difficult to engage service users. To meet service users regularly, to respond flexibly when agreeing venue, such as home visit, team base, education, work or recreational establishment to assist with engagement & encourage participation in treatment delivery as well as facilitating independence
- To involve families and carers in treatment plans where appropriate. This may require direct Family Intervention work. Ensuring services are provided within guidance of the Children & Families' Act and Care Act.
- To work in co-operation with members of the multi-disciplinary team and all other relevant health and social care professionals to assess, develop, implement and evaluate high quality packages of client-centred care.

**Why NHS Professionals?**

We value your skills, dedication, and commitment in supporting your local Trust and the NHS. We believe together we continue to deliver world-class healthcare service to our patients

Pay: £21.97 per hour

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 67009



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