Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, Waithwith, Richmondshire
Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
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Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, Waithwith, Richmondshire
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 3 Jul | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 65e7a2ae49c24808a05addc6d2dc2a7c
Location ref: Waithwith, Richmondshire
Full Job Description
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to develop their leadership and clinical skills in a community setting. As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, providing assessments, care co-ordination and delivering intervention in the community with people who have complex needs ranging from mild to moderate level of need to severe and enduring level of need and complexity.
You will demonstrate excellent assessment and analysis skills, interpersonal, communication and team working skills. You will need to be committed to working collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies to promote holistic wellbeing and recovery focused care.
You will support the team's improvement activities for co-creation, aiming to deliver care that is highly personalised to each individual's needs and working closely with families, paid and unpaid carers.
You will be encouraged and supported to bring your skills and experience to contribute to our team and locality's service development and continuous improvement and innovation endeavours.
As a senior practitioner you will have a genuine interest in collaborative working with people of varying ages and complex needs, including service users, Carers, families and our partners including statutory and voluntary agencies. The successful candidate with participate in a range of interventions including triage, complex assessments and risk management and deliver evidence based psychological wellbeing interventions (training will be provided) to support a purposeful service user journey whilst with the team.
The successful candidate may also be required to provide ongoing coaching support, clinical and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and wider members of the MDT.
18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework is essential.
The vacancy is within a community-based service that delivers care across Richmondshire and the Dales as well as part of Hambleton.