Assistant Practitioner - Drayton Park Women's Crisis House

Job overview

We are looking for highly motivated Assistant Practitioners and clinical support workers to join the Drayton Park Women’s Crisis House and Resource centre.

The ideal candidates will be mainly working with supervision from senior staff to coordinate the residential stay, alongside colleagues, of a case load of women in mental health crisis. This will include offering one to one sessions, participating in risk assessments, collaborative planning, children and families liaison and referring on to a range of services for women.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will also take referrals and co assess women who are referred to the service in mental health crisis.

You would need to demonstrate a respect for women who use mental health services and work within an empowerment model, building on the strengths and expertise of women who use or have used services.

You are expected to have knowledge of trauma informed approaches and an understanding of how trauma impacts on mental health, physical health and social circumstances for women.

The ability to prioritise your workload whilst maintaining a degree of flexibility to accommodate competing demands of the service when they arise. You are expected to have knowledge of national and local policies in relation to women’s mental health, the violence against women and girl’s agenda and in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

You are expected to have excellent communication skills, demonstrating an ability to understand complex information and to converse with a wide variety of people from different contexts.

You need to have confidence in using computerised patient record systems and also have excellent written skills.

You will be able to use your initiative, within a team setting and be able to engage with the role after a short induction to carry out a role that is multi-functional and has a variety of duties competing for your time and energy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.

For further information or to arrange a visit please contact Shirley McNicholas or Georgia Carson on 0207 607 2777

G.Carson@nhs.net or Shirley.McNicholas@nhs.net

You can also search on the internet under Drayton Park Women’s Crisis House for further reading.

The post is only open to female applicants and is exempt from the Sex Discrimination Act.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.