Adult Mental Health Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom NHS Full time
About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Community Mental Health Practitioner, working in a busy service that provides a range of services including secondary mental health care. As a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will be responsible for managing a caseload of service users with complex needs, developing care plans, and delivering evidence-based interventions and treatments.

You will work closely with our clinical lead and the community mental health team to ensure that patients receive the best possible care. This role involves managing unplanned patient work, responding to escalation of risk/crisis situations, and stepping up care to a CMHT Band 6 Practitioner as needed.

About Us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services, including inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services. We also provide physical health and well-being services in the community, working with partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria, and Sefton area.

We encourage flexible working, recognizing the importance of a positive work-life balance for our employees. This includes term-time, part-time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks.

Person Specification
  • Registered Mental Health Nurse with ongoing Professional Registration.
  • Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development.
Key Skills and Abilities
  • Able to demonstrate and understand the concept of community care and the need to develop good networks.
  • Ability to maintain own performance and participation in group skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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