Senior Mental Health Practitioner

**Senior Mental Health Practitioner**:**Band 6**:
**Main area**

Adult Mental Health & Learning Disability
**Grade**

Band 6
**Contract**

Permanent
**Hours**

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

**Job ref**

201-22-122-A

**Site**

Alexandra House
**Town**

St Austell
**Salary**

£32,306 - £39,027 Per annum
**Salary period**

Yearly
**Closing**

Today at 23:59

**Thank you for your interest in working for **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust**:
**Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust prides itself in striving to be an employer of choice.**
- Our Trust objectives are:_
- Improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities by working in partnership and creating opportunities for our citizens.
- Provide safe, high quality, timely and compassionate care and support, in local communities wherever possible, and informed by experience of people who use services.
- Make Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly a great place to work in health and social care.
- Working efficiently so health and care funding give maximum benefits.
- Create the underpinning infrastructure and capabilities that are critical to delivering high quality care and support.

All external appointments to the Trust will be required to attend a full Trust Corporate Induction which will be held at Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin, PL31 2QN.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Restormel Integrated Community Mental Health team is a progressive and recovery focused team with a strong emphasis on facilitating high quality, effective and evidence based interventions with people who experience severe and enduring mental illness. We are a team of highly motivated and supportive professionals who work to ensure we empower individuals to independently manage their own mental wellbeing.

We are looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner who is a confident and motivated practitioner with excellent communication skills who has a professional background in mental health nursing, occupational therapy or social work; you will demonstrate clinical practice that is consistent with the vision and values of Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. You will have experience, or will be looking for experience, in working independently in a community mental health setting; you will be able to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

As an Integrated Community Mental Health Team member you will have both a positive outlook and sense of humour to manage the challenges of working in a busy locality that extends to seaside towns and rural locations. You will have knowledge of general mental health problems, and the impact this may have on individuals and their treatment. You will have knowledge of the CPA process and relevant mental health legislation. You will demonstrate confidence in the delivery of assessment and treatment interventions/therapy; you will be enthusiastic, passionate and driven to work within a team focused on recovery. You will show an interest in delivering evidence-based treatment whilst ensuring that you are committed to keeping individuals who experience severe and enduring mental illness, carers and their families at the centre of everything that you do. You will be interested service development, leadership and ensuring that mental health services are high quality, consistent and effective.

We work with individuals with severe and enduring mental health illness from the ages of 18 to 75, and we work in partnership with specialist mental health services/teams such as Eating Disorders Service, Complex Emotional Difficulties Service and Home Treatment Team to facilitate high quality and effective integrated health and social care interventions.

We are a team who will recognise & value the expertise, experience and knowledge that each individual practitioner brings, and we have a genuine commitment to your career development and continued learning. Our mission is to provide a safe and empowering environment steeped in a caring, culture of acceptance, curiosity and empathy. We are dedicated to building a compassionate workplace where quality improvement to the services we provide is at the heart of everything we do.
- To achieve our Trust objectives, we prioritise the development of our staff. To support this, the following opportunities are available:_
- Protected CPD time for registered staff
- Access to a dedicated central development fund