Band 7 Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

5 days ago


Preston, United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services) Full time

**Responsibilities include and are not limited to**: Providing advice and recommendations to MO/GP on all matters of mental health, care and treatment which will include occupational advice on the individuals ability to be employed in their operational role. At times this will include communicating, where appropriate, on occupational information directly to the service persons Chain of Command (CoC) whilst respecting the principle of patient confidentiality. Providing recognised and clinically recommended interventions and managerial guidance for an identified, varied and often complex caseload, the needs of which can be safely met within the clinical time available and the clinical expertise possessed. Producing clinical reports to MO/GP and other relevant professional agencies after initial assessment, on discharge from caseload and where otherwise indicated/appropriate.

NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning. NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment. NHS General NHS G6 People Management. NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK2 Information Collection & Analysis.

The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments. The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held at (TBC) on a date to be confirmed.

The level of security needed is security check. Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken. If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

In-line with the NHS England approach, MOD is in the process of making full vaccination a condition of deployment for its healthcare workers employed across the UK. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination status during the recruitment process. Please see the attached further information document for full details. As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.



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