Senior Community Practitioner

An exciting opportunity for a secondment/ fixed post for a kind and experienced Senior Community Practitioner to join our friendly and dedicated colleagues within the MHSOP Scarborough Community Mental Health Team, part time hours will be considered.

This opportunity will allow the right person to gain experience working and supporting individuals in the community and support your continuing development within your career.

You will work alongside all members of the multi-disciplinary team which includes Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists and Psychology Assistants, Consultant Psychiatrists, medics, team admin and support workers. With access to and support from specialist services available in the trust, and excellent working relationships with local partner organisations.

The Practitioners are an integral part of the community pathway as well as working within the proposed 10-year plan with clear direction and goals of increasing care within the community and as a Practitioner they play a significant role in providing preventative measures and interventions working closely in a joined-up approach with our external health colleagues this will continually support reducing hospital admissions both to medical and mental health inpatient units., As a Band 6 Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner, you are an essential clinical role within the Community Mental Health Team. Band 6 staff are able to deliver the necessary enhanced and effective interventions to reduce the likelihood of acute and psychiatric admissions. They oversee the recovery journey of complex individuals requiring structured evidence-based interventions to enable a good quality of life within the community. They work closely with families and carers to ensure they also have the support available to avoid and reduce carer's stress.

As a Senior Practitioner you will play a significant role in providing preventative measures and interventions, working closely in a joined-up approach with our external partners, to achieve the best possible outcomes and quality of life for people. Senior Practitioners conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments to formulate the needs and risks of patients who referred to the service.

The Practitioners help deliver and oversee pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, providing clinical supervision to CSW's. They provide clinically relevant updates via MDT and supervision, accessing wider services and support according to changing patient need. You will also be part of the duty worker rotation within the team.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care - our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.