Senior Mental Health Practitioner

2 weeks ago

AshtonunderLyne, Tameside, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our team at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. This role will involve working with our colleagues and partners to identify and support patients who are struggling with their mental health in the community.

Main Duties of the Job

The successful candidate will conduct biopsychosocial assessments and initial conversations with individuals presenting with mental health difficulties, social care needs, and risk issues at a primary care level. The aim is to promote recovery and help people maintain their lives within their community environment.

Key Responsibilities of the Post:

The Senior Mental Health Practitioner will assess risk, devise risk management plans with service users as part of the duty function. This pathway promotes self-management to enable service users' engagement with other parts of the Living Well Team and offers advice to colleagues where necessary.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will also be able to offer brief interventions (max 12 weeks) including devising coping strategies, problem-solving, motivational, and behavioral activation work, anxiety management, risk management, and suicide prevention work, medication support, promoting social and interagency support, providing psychological support, and biopsychosocial education aimed at insight development, promoting self-help through resources and signposting, and reviewing treatment plans with service users deemed too complex for other parts of the Living Well Team or who may not meet the criteria for secondary care services.

Key Requirements of the Person Specification:

Applicants must possess RMN/RNMH/Social Worker/OT or equivalent. Completion of Preparation for Mentorship/Practice Teacher/Fieldwork Educator qualification or willingness to complete is desirable, together with significant post-registration experience.

Working for Our Organisation

We are a 9-5 Monday to Friday service, which offers flexible working opportunities. Hours can be negotiable. The Team are continually seeking service development opportunities and welcomes an enthusiastic, motivated, and caring Practitioner to join our busy and supportive team in Tameside and Glossop.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

The Team offers a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment for those individuals who may require secondary care services and is able to offer short-term support in respect of any identified mental health difficulties if indicated.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within the Living Well system, you will be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team that meets regularly to actively case manage patients who present with multiple complex needs. You will complete mental health and risk assessments to identify patients' needs and provide short-term, low-level interventions to prevent escalation and crisis.

Essential Skills and Abilities:

Comprehensive mental health and risk assessment skills. Ability to deliver evidence-based interventions. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Comprehensive I.T. skills. Ability to form productive working relationships with service users, carers, and multidisciplinary staff. Good organisational and prioritisation skills.

Person SpecificationEducation/Qualifications/ExperienceEssential Criteria
  • RMN/RNMH/Social Worker equivalent
  • Evidence of ongoing CPD
  • Experience of working with individuals who present to mental health services in crisis and have symptoms of mental health illness
  • Proven experience of working with clients with complex needs
  • Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
Desirable Criteria
  • Degree - or working towards completion
  • Formal teaching qualification
  • Further training in brief psychosocial interventions
  • Completion of Preparation for Mentorship/Practice Teacher/Fieldwork Educator qualification or willingness to complete
  • Primary care mental health work experience
  • Experienced in the use of outcome measures such as CORE, PHQ9, and GAD7
  • Experience of working with a psychological model of care
  • Experience of triaging referrals
  • Experience of providing supervision to junior staff
KnowledgeEssential Criteria
  • Understanding of current mental health legislation, Safe Guarding, and Child Protection Legislation
  • Awareness of NICE Guidance in the treatment of mental health problems and knowledge of treatments and interventions appropriate for individuals with mental health needs
  • Understanding of confidentiality and data protection issues
  • Knowledge of psychosocial assessment and risk assessment/management processes
  • Comprehensive understanding of deliberate self-harm and appropriate management strategies
Skills and AbilitiesEssential Criteria
  • Comprehensive mental health and risk assessment skills
  • Ability to contribute to the development of effective packages of care and risk management plans
  • Ability to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Comprehensive I.T. skills
  • Ability to form productive working relationships with service users, carers, and multidisciplinary staff
  • Good organisational and prioritisation skills
Desirable Criteria
  • Skills in planning, delivery, and evaluation of training
  • Skills in the area of audit or research

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