Community Mental Health Practitioner

**Community Mental Health Practitioner**:
**Band 5**:
**Main area**
- Community Mental Health Practitioner
- **Grade**
- Band 5
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-892-A**Site**
- Longreach House, Bassett Unit
- **Town**
- Redruth
- **Salary**
- £25,655 - £31,534 Per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _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.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
We are looking for a forward thinking mental health professional to join Kerrier Integrated Community Mental Health Team. You will be involved in the delivery of evidence based interventions and the coordination of care to a caseload of individuals experiencing severe mental health difficulties. The role also involves close liaison and partnership working with GPs and other agencies to enable a recovery focused approach. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the further development of this role as the service evolves.

About You

We are looking for a confident and motivated practitioner with excellent communication skills and a professional back ground in either Mental Health nursing, Occupational Therapy or as a Social Worker, who can demonstrate the Trust’s vision and values in their clinical practice. You will need to demonstrate confidence in the delivery of assessment and treatment interventions/therapy to a caseload of service users,. You need to be enthusiastic, passionate and driven to work with a team focused on the recovery of their clients. You will need to show an interest in delivering current evidence based treatments. You will be committed to keeping service users and carers at the heart of everything that you do, and be enthusiastic about cultivating the growth of community mental health services. We are looking for a professional who has the ability to adapt, learn and make a meaningful contribution to future service provision.

The Team

We are part of a countywide Integrated Community Mental Health Team. Based in Redruth and covering the Camborne/Redruth area.

The Integrated Community Mental Health Team is evolving through a service development programme and has exciting service transition plans to further our focus on effective, recovery focused interventions that promote the independence of our service users.

We work with individuals recovering from severe and enduring mental health conditions from 18 to 75, working in partnership with specialist mental health teams such as the Eating Disorders Service, Home Treatment Team and Personality Disorder Service to deliver high quality and effective integrated health and social care interventions.

New team members joining our team say that we are “warm and welcoming”, and that we are “a diverse team with a range of skills and experience”

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