Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Are you an experienced mental health practitioner looking for a fulfilling role in a supportive and dynamic team?

The OPMH Community Team in North Devon is seeking a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, 37.5 hours per week, to join our dedicated team that provides high-quality assessment and treatment for clients aged 65 and over, managing functional mental health and dementia presentations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide specialist mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions to individuals in their own homes or in residential settings across North Devon.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the best outcomes for service users.
• Manage a caseload, ensuring that clinical priorities are met with professionalism and compassion.

What Were Looking For:

• Proven experience working in mental health, ideally within Older Peoples Mental Health (OPMH).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a genuine passion for working with older adults.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to manage a caseload effectively, ensuring high-quality care.
• Ability to travel across North Devon to meet the demands of the role
• Flexibility in working arrangements, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities in this rural locality.
• You will demonstrate strong leadership and clinical expertise, supporting junior team members and promoting best practice.

Main duties of the job

• You will be undertaking assessments of new clients and providing care planned interventions to your caseload
• The team works with 4 primary care networks each at different stages of implementing Community Mental Health Framework developments, enhancements to provision for clients in residential care and to services for those living with frailty in their own homes
• Within the team and Devon Partnership Trust you will find a commitment to supporting staff in their career development and wellbeing
• The main base for the team and location for weekly MDT meetings is at Bideford Hospital, with additional desk space at Barnstaple Health and Wellbeing clinic. Clients are seen in their own homes, clinic settings and by utilising remote technology

Please refer to attached job description for details

Job responsibilities

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.