Community Mental Health Practitioner

at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

National Health Service (UK)

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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Tameside West Specialist Mental Health Team for a Community Psychiatric Nurse, Social Worker or OT to join us in working to provide mental health care to people of working age who have moderate to severe mental health problems across a wide range of presenting conditions.
There is a strong commitment to promoting your professional development. You will be supported by clinical and management supervision and will be given the opportunity to develop and enhance clinical skills, interventions and case management through a personal development and training plan.
Key Responsibilities of the Post:
As a Specialist Mental Health Practitioner you will be responsible for heath care of patients under secondary care
Key Requirements of the Person Specification:
RMN: Registered Mental Health Nurse
Social Worker
Occupational therapist with care coordination experience
Experience in a relevant area of mental health practice.
Current driving license or supported driver with use of vehicle To act as a Community Mental Health Practitioner for a defined caseload working with evidence based interventions
Assess and review needs
Formulate care plans
Implementation of care plans
Assessment, monitoring and management of risk
Monitor, review and evaluate care
Liaise with all agencies, and members of the multi-disciplinary team
Carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril /administration of depot injections either in the clients home or in the clinics if Nurse qualified where required.
Supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s and peers as appropriate
To maintain accurate, up to date electronic records
To participate in the CMHT's duty system on a Rota basis. Be able to offer a rapid response to service users' immediate needs, including those arising from crisis.
To work in a therapeutically informed way within the multi-disciplinary team to address the needs of service users with complex emotional disorders.
To maintain a persistent approach to engagement where there are complex mental health difficulties.
To prioritise and work flexibly with MDT in order to respond to rapidly changing clinical needs.
To promote the physical health and wellbeing We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work. If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
Access to Continued Professional Development
Involvement in improvement and research activities
Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dane Yates Job title: Team Manager Email address: dane.yates@nhs.net Telephone number: 01617163434

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