Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

As part of our Community Transformation programme, we have an opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our established Multidisciplinary team.  The aim of the service is to provide recovery-focused treatment and support via personalised care plans for individuals who are presenting with a range of mental health disorders: supporting them from diagnosis to recovery, to enable them to lead the lives they wish to live.  You will work with a Multidisciplinary Team: a spectrum of clinical professionals, which includes Nurses, Psychologists, Support Time Recovery workers, etc: as well as a range of collaborative system partners.

We are looking for a positive team player who has a special interest in working compassionately with individuals and their wider support networks.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the existing multi-disciplinary team to deliver robust and proactive treatment to service users via assessment, care planning and review.

To undertake holistic risk assessment; identifying risk management strategies and working collaboratively with service users, carers, wider support networks and system partners to deliver high quality care and treatment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide and oversee the management and care of service users
• Produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenance of records on all service users in line with your professional Code of Conduct and Trust policy
• Undertake comprehensive assessments: formulating personalised care plans which reflect the needs of the service user, their family and wider support networks
• Conduct risk assessment of the individual and of the potential hazards in the service users environment
• Attend the weekly Multidisciplinary team meeting
• Report and document incidents as required
• Conduct and oversee physical health care checks and act upon the findings
• Act as a Care Co-ordinator/Lead Practitioner