Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Practitioners will work as lead professionals providing the following:

• Further assessment of mental health problems and risk.
• Devise a collaborative care plan empowering clients to take ownership of their recovery.
• Promote recovery through evidence-based approaches such as Psychosocial Intervention (PSI), Solution Focused work, Structured Clinical Management (SCM).
• Reduce the need for admission to hospital or intensive home-based treatment.
• Promote social inclusion and improve social functioning.
• Promote collaborate working with primary care and third sector organisations.
• Offer longer-term treatment pathway for client who require the administration of intramuscular medication and clients on clozapine therapy. SMI clients will also have additional health and wellbeing checks as part of their plan of care.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

Job responsibilities

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.