Senior Mental Health Practitioner

5 days ago


AshtonunderLyne, Tameside, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS FT Full time
About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic Home Treatment Team as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you will play a vital role in delivering recovery-focused interventions to adults in mental health crisis.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop individualized packages of care for service users with mental health problems, including signposting where necessary.
  • Provide intensive home treatment in service users' homes/community settings.
  • Provide crisis management and short-term psychotherapeutic interventions as appropriate.
  • Develop and provide a supported discharge/leave pathway for inpatients.
  • Identify the need for protection in line with safeguarding children and the Protection of Vulnerable Adult Policy and to comply with statutory obligations.
  • Liaise and negotiate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies to ensure the best possible service is provided to service users and carers.
  • Evaluate systematically and record outcomes of mental health assessments, adapting care on the basis of these outcomes.
  • Involvement of family and carers in the assessment and care planning with service users' consent.
  • Provide education and appropriate self-help resources to patients and carers specific to individual needs.
Person Specification
  • Essential:
    • RMN/Social Worker/OT
  • Desirable:
    • PSI Training
  • Experience:
    • Essential:
      • Extensive knowledge of mental health legislation and guidance
    • Desirable:
      • Experience of work in Crisis/Home Treatment Team
  • Knowledge:
    • Essential:
      • Knowledge and experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
  • Skills and Abilities:
    • Essential:
      • Ability to provide leadership cover in the absence of the team manager when required
      • Ability to supervise and support community support workers in meeting the needs of clients on their caseload.
      • Ability to prepare, record and complete relevant documents and reports to a professional standard
  • Work Related Circumstances:
    • Essential:
      • Must be able to work flexibly over a 7-day week in response to client/service user needs
      • Must be willing to develop competencies within the scope of professional practice to meet service needs


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