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Mental Health Practitioner
4 months ago
Job summary
Lancaster and Morecambe Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) are excited to recruit a qualified Band 6 Mental Health practitioner to our growing friendly team. The applicant would need to be registered with a professional body. This is a permanent hour contract. This post is suitable for registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists
The team serves the population of the Lancaster and Morecambe area. It is an established team with a friendly and supportive culture. There is a visible and supportive leadership team who are committed to clinical supervision and professional development.
This is an interesting and rewarding role in a busy service. Ideally, you will have current or previous experience in a community setting and be able to work effectively in a multi professional context. You should have a collaborative and enthusiastic approach as well as passion and commitment in developing and promoting recovery based approaches for adults with complex mental health needs
Main duties of the job
The main job role is to perform duties as a keyworker. As a keyworker you will manage a caseload of service users with a range of complex mental health needs. You will develop Dialog+ care plans and deliver evidence based interventions and treatments to patients alongside managing risks in the community. The post requires that you are a good communicator, and are able to adopt a flexible, adaptable and proactive approach to your work.
Part of your role will require you to undertake the role of team duty worker. This role involves managing unplanned patient work within the team, responding to escalation of risk/crisis situations and may also include assessing of new referrals.
There is an expectation that the successful candidate will take on some leadership activities such as contributing to the learning and development of junior team members taking a lead on/or contributing to projects identified by the leadership team.
In return you will benefit from encouragement to continue to develop your own specialist knowledge and competence. Your development will be guided using clinical supervision, management supervision, Team/Peer support, internal and external training opportunities and the Trust's appraisal process.
The service operates across two sites. East Barn in Lancaster and Victoria House in Morecambe. The service is operational between the hours of and Monday to Friday however some out of hours work may be necessary to meet service demands
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Education/qualifications
Essential
Registered Mental Health Nurse Degree, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist. Currently registered with a professional body.
Knowledge
Essential
Knowledge of a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions Understanding of Health and Safety policies and procedures Knowledge and practice of the Mental Health Act 1983 Knowledge and practice of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Commitment to lifelong learning
Experience
Essential
Several years post registered experience
Skills and abilities
Essential
Risk assessment/management skills Assessment skills Therapeutic skills Good team working/ team membership skills. Ability to work in partnership with service users, carers, advocates and other agencies and to liaise across professional boundaries