Community Mental Health Practitioner

Are you interested in working in a recovery focused way with people who live in the Wirral area and are accessing a service from the Birkenhead Community Mental Health Team?

A vacancy has arisen for a permanent Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse post within the Birkenhead Community Mental Health Team. We are a dynamic team, working with people where there is an opportunity to significantly impact on an individuals well-being and functioning and long-term clinical outcomes.

Part of the role is to work within the physical health clinics currently being offered so a keen interest in physical health and improving outcomes for people with long term mental health problems would be advantageous.

The service operates from 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday and covers a specific area of the Wirral. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated CWP as ‘Good’ overall, ‘better’ for treatments and ‘Outstanding’ for care

You will be expected to work collaboratively within the physical health clinics currently being offered by CMHT. You will be expected to plan an individual's care needs and assess risk factors and implement interventions that improve outcomes for the individual and their families.

Excellent communication, report writing and assessment skills are essential. We are looking for highly skilled and competent practitioners, who are motivated and committed to delivering quality and evidence based care.

The practitioner will support the development of our physical health monitoring clinics with a vision for quality improvement and have a keen interest in transformation and service development.

You will be an autonomous, independent practitioner who will support the delivery of care for service users who have complex mental health issues within our secondary care services. As this post involves working across a wide geographical area access to transport for work purposes is essential.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We have been recognised by the Health Service Journal as one of the top places to work in the health service for the last two years running. CWP also scored the highest in the north west (among mental health, learning disability and community Trusts) for staff “recommending CWP as a place to work” in the NHS Staff Survey 2020.

We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool - and provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Please download a copy of the job description for full details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification)andvalues.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If your disability meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’ Please also inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

All new clinical support staff will be required to have completed or working towards the Care Certificate (CWP In-house 2 day training to be completed within 6 months of start date).

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

CWP encourages and supports all staff to become vaccinated against COVID-19.