Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

This position is within the Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) Community Mental Health Team.

Secondments accepted and various hours.

The MHSOP service comprises Community Mental Health Teams, a Nursing Home Team, a Psychiatric Liaison Team, Occupational Therapy services, a Memory Clinic, and two inpatient wards providing functional and organic mental health care.

We are looking for a motivated, innovative, and critically minded practitioner to join our dedicated team. This is a rare opportunity, as clinicians who join the MHSOP service often choose to build long-term careers within the team. This reflects our supportive working environment, positive team culture, and shared commitment to delivering excellent care for our local community.

We are committed to providing the highest quality, patient-focused, person-centred care through comprehensive assessment, care planning, and care coordination. You will work autonomously, demonstrating strong clinical assessment skills and the ability to develop and deliver effective, evidence-based care plans that address individual patient needs while proactively assessing and managing risk.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

As a Community Mental Health Practitioner, you will be responsible for the assessment and management of service users presenting with complex mental health needs within the community.

You will undertake comprehensive assessments of need, providing evidence-based interventions, advice, and support to service users, their families and carers, and other professionals involved in their care.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will ensure that high-quality, person-centred care is delivered in line with best practice. You will assess and manage clinical risk, coordinate care, and ensure that appropriate pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions are implemented in a timely manner to meet individual needs.

You will contribute to the development, implementation, and regular review of personalised care plans, ensuring that care remains responsive to changing needs. Through ongoing assessment and risk management, you will work collaboratively with service users and partner agencies to support recovery and facilitate safe, effective discharge planning where appropriate.

You will practise in accordance with the Trust's values.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for the Assessment and Management of casework of service users who have substantial and complex needs.
• Provide specialist clinical advice to Service Users/Carers, staff, statutory agencies, 3rd sector partner agencies and the public.
• In collaboration with the Service User and Carer where appropriate, develop Recovery and Wellbeing focused Care Plans, ensuring regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt Care Plan as necessary.
• To consider Carer needs and ensure Carer and family are involved in Care Planning where appropriate.
• To deliver evidenced based Clinical and Psychologically based Interventions.
• The post holder will work as a member of the Multi-disciplinary Team ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered which ensures safety and a commitment to promoting recovery and wellbeing and maximising independence.
• Coordinate Treatment Planning & Interventions, Reviews and Discharge Planning.
• Provide clinical supervision to staff as delegated by Team Manager.
• To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.
• To incorporate a client centred philosophy into nursing practice and client centred collaborative care.
• Work flexibly to meet the needs of Service Users across pathways which may regularly include working extended and flexible hours over 7 days a week.
• Demonstrate flexibility in the role. This may involve working across clinical pathways to support the needs of the service, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality care at all times.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.