The Community Mental Health Teams( CMHTs) provide care and treatment to a defined group of service users care coordinated under Part 2 of the Mental Health ( Wales) Measure 2010. We are pleased to be able to offer the chance for 2 highly motivated and compassionate mental health nurses to join the teams as co-occurring practitioners.

These are new roles and so the successful candidates will play a pivotal role in developing the roles alongside the senior nurse, and taking forward evidence based care for those service users who experience complex mental health and substance misuse needs within the CMHTs. Additionally the role will play a key part in driving forward the Welsh Government Co-Occurring Agenda within Mental Health and Substance Misuse Services in .

We are looking for practitioners with a real knowledge and passion to improve outcomes for this service user group and with a proven ability and commitment to ongoing education and support to the mental health services around co-occurring issues

Main duties of the job

The post holders' role will include setting and maintaining clinical standards within the governance framework and the motivation and leadership of team members from both Community Mental Health services and Substance Misuse Service (SMS) services in reaching specific clinical, health and Co-Occurring framework targets.

The post holder will be responsible for developing good relationships between services, both statutory and third sector to promote the wellbeing of individual service users and their families.

The post holder will allocate work and provide professional support to Barod workers within the service.

The post holder will conduct and coordinate comprehensive assessments of need to formulate effective care plans for the benefit of those service users and their families as well as agreed service standards and outcome measures.

The post holder will provide clinical teaching and education to other professionals in order to enhance clinical practice and improve care provision.

The post holder will contribute to service based audit, research and evaluation to provide evidence based service improvement to the standards of care received by service users.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

English

Essential

• Qualified Health Professional with an RN (Mental Health) qualification
• Professional degree
• Management/leadership skill and evidence of being able to work autonomously

Desirable

• Enhanced therapeutic training, eg CBT, MI
• Leadership qualification/leadership specific training

English

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of Co-occurring Mental health and substance misuse Issues and ability to confidently articulate these to a wide and diverse range of staff
• Enhanced knowledge of the Mental Health ( Wales) Measure 2010 and Welsh Government Co-Occurring Framework ( 2016
• Excellent risk assessment skills
• Significant experience in the areas of community mental health and/or community substance misuse

Desirable

• Experience of chairing groups or leading training programmes

Employer details

Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

To be confirmed on recruitment

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