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Community Senior Practitioner

Employer
Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Durham
Salary
£32,306 to £39,027 a year per annum
Closing date
22 Aug 2022

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Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Are you a candidate that enjoys variety and excels in providing support for complex patients?

Do you possess an exceptional skill set that helps in making a difference?

An exciting opportunity has risen for a Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the Durham and Darlington Case Management Team to review and support individuals to access the most appropriate package of care. If successful you will work alongside Care coordinators, CHC and Local Authority Colleagues to review care packages across Durham and Darlington for a period of approximately 6 months (to cover absence), following this period you will support a Community Mental Health Team in Durham and Darlington as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner on a permanent basis.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who are able to work with the wider MDT, voluntary sector and third sector organisations

Main duties of the job

As a Case Manager you will be responsible for:
  • Reviewing existing care packages to ensure that they are meeting the needs of the individual
  • Work alongside TEWV, Local Authority and CHC colleagues to make/suggest recommended changes
  • Develop effective working relationships with colleagues internally and externally to the Trust

As a core member of a Community Mental Health Team you will also be responsible for:-
  • your own caseload
  • providing assessments
  • risk assessment and management of risk.
  • delivering intervention in the community.

You will ensure that the service users' needs are:-
  • identified and central to their safety and Recovery plans
  • promoting social inclusion
  • independence and well-being

You will demonstrate:-
  • excellent assessment skills
  • interpersonal and team working skills
  • ability to work collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies.


About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

Job description Job responsibilities

Please find attached the job description and person specification which outlines the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

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. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
  • 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)
Experience Essential
  • Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
  • Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
  • Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
  • Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement
  • Working in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Quality improvement activities
Knowledge Essential
  • Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
  • Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
  • Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its o The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS) Page 10 of 12 application in practice
  • Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
  • Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
  • Research and development methodology.
  • Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.


Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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