Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced and enthusiastic registered Mental health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join Grantham CMHT.    As a Community Mental Health Practitioner, you will manage a caseload, having the opportunity to provide a range of specialist mental health assessments and evidence based, recovery focused interventions. You will work collaboratively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and complex presentations, their carers and other agencies, enabling them to access mental health specialist support.

This is an exciting time to join the trust, in LPFT we are forging ahead in our community transformation plans that aim to offer a dynamic, localised approach that is responsive, evaluated & tailored to local need, targeting health inequalities. The community mental health team will be central to this focus, this role will be significant in aiding the team to move towards an integrated care system and seamless working.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will be expected to demonstrate a strong commitment to high quality patient care, good organisational skills and be able to demonstrate prioritisation of work.

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.

Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

To assess carer and family’s needs and develop, implement and review programs of support for cares and families.

To maintain accurate and timely clinical records.

To adhere to codes of professional conduct and ethics, as well as associated legislation.

To develop clinical practice having due regard to NICE guidelines and other best practice guidance

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.

To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.

To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of nursing members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.

To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.