Mental Health Practitioner

This post is suitable Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse within our Lancaster and Morecambe Community Mental Health Team. You will be based across both the Lancaster and Morecambe venues, East Barns in Lancaster and Victoria House in Morecambe.

As part of this team you will have caseload of patients with a range of severe and enduring mental health conditions. You will conduct comprehensive assessments, Risk Assessments, Care Plans, Safety Plans, Psychosocial interventions, Psychological informed interventions and much more. The post holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team including Consultant Psychiatrists, Mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Support time and recovery workers, pharmacists, administrative and medical secretarial staff.

The team serves the population of Lancaster and Morecambe. 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.

We are looking to recruit an experienced, compassionate and dynamic Community mental health nurse who has a keen interest and a passion for Community mental health nursing mental health, with at least 2 years post registration experience and 18 months experience in a relevant mental health setting. You will receive regular supervision, access to CPD opportunities and be part of a supportive occupational therapy network.

The main job role is to perform duties as a Key-worker and to undertake assessments for people who are referred into the service. As a Key-worker you will manage a caseload of service users with a range of complex needs. You will develop care plans and deliver evidence based interventions and treatments to patients alongside managing risks in the community.

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 the triaging 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 Lancaster and Morecambe CMHT 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

LSCFT support 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 and flexi-time.

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