Community Mental Health Practitioner

We welcome applications to join us at the Community Mental Health Assessment Team. The Post Holder will be responsible for the triage/assessment of routine referrals to the assessment team, signposting to other agencies when appropriate and to the wider CMHT. They will hold a short term caseload and be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care. The post holder will provide high standards of skilled mental health care to individuals and their families. The role will include active participation in the service planning and development of the nursing and multi-disciplinary teams. The post holder will provide clinical supervision and support to junior members of the team and actively promoting the values and policies of the service and the Trust. The Community Mental Health Practitioner will be an active member of the multi disciplinary team and will work in close co-operation with secondary and primary care based professionals, other community agencies such as Housing, Probation, Police, Children Schools & Families and other Voluntary and Third Sector Agencies. Community Mental Health services are fully integrated teams that are operated jointly with Bradford Metropolitan District Council and all staff within the teams will be expected to deliver health and social care outcomes for service users.,

• To manage a caseload of clients in the community
• To triage and assess routine referrals into the CMHT
• To input data in the clinical information system: e.g. including risk assessments, care plans, CPA, crisis and contingency plans
• To work as a part of duty/day co-ordinator service within the CMH AT
• To supervise and mentor student nurses
• To demonstrate effective networking skills and ensure a holistic approach to meet service user needs.
• To work to ensure the safety and wellbeing of service users and their families
• To work in partnership with service users and carers to achieve goals and to support recovery and reintegration within communities
• To provide appropriate feedback and liaison with MDT on all aspects of service user care.
• To ensure that agreed standards of nursing care within the team are achieved.
• To actively participate in the flexible formats of team supervision and support.
• To initiate, develop and assist in the trial of new ideas for the improvement of services to service users in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
• To ensure that nursing policies are implemented and maintained
• To comply with legal and professional requirements
• To have ability to identify, facilitate and support developments and initiatives within the service delivery of nursing and multi-disciplinary team
• To work within a fully integrated and jointly managed Community Mental Health Team alongside Local Authority social care staff and manager
  
  Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value differenceWe Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needsWe Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :Increase mileage rates for > 3500A wide range of health and wellbeing support packagesA range of internal and external development and learning opportunitiesPlus many more.We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.