An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Mental Health Team based close to Monks Cross, York, to support older adults living with mental health needs. The service offers assessment and treatment within the community setting aims to promote both recovery and living well.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. As a senior practitioner you will have a genuine interest in collaborative working with older adults experiencing functional and/or organic mental health problems including their carers and families.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to develop their leadership and clinical skills in a community setting. As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, providing assessments, care co-ordination and delivering intervention in the community with people who have complex needs ranging from mild to moderate level of need to severe and enduring level of need and complexity. You will demonstrate excellent assessment skills, interpersonal, and team working skills and be able to work collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies.

This in an exciting period of development within the team with the ongoing implementation of brief intervention work.

About us

This is an incredibly friendly and supportive team with well established safe processes (such as daily lean management) and wellbeing initiatives (such as picnics and sporting challenges) that emphasise whole team working.

You are welcome to come and visit the team before applying to find out what it is like to work with us.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will have an enthusiastic approach towards your own personal and professional development. In return, you will receive regular appraisal, clinical, management and caseload supervision and will benefit from the support of an experienced and committed multi-disciplinary leadership team, including the Team Manager and the Advanced Practitioner.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current professional registration with an approved professional body
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education
• 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
• Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Desirable

• Leadership or management qualification
• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
• For registered nurses: Non medical prescriber

Skills

Essential

• Through application evidence of an understanding of legal structures such as the MCA and MHA.
• Evidence of risk assessment
• Evidence of providing supervision and support to colleagues

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
• Providing clinical supervision.
• Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team

Desirable

• Leadership or management experience

Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Huntington House

Jockey Lane

York

YO32 9XW

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