[ref. u8224802] Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit a motivated and experienced part time Band 6 Senior Mental Health (MH) Practitioner to join our Ely Older People’s Community Mental Health Team. This is a great opportunity to join our effective and friendly team working with a client group with more complex mental health needs.

You will be part of a team comprising Mental Health Practitioners, CPNs, Psychologists, Consultant Psychiatrist and Support Workers, enabling effective coordinated care delivery.

We provide service-user focused, evidence-based interventions for people aged 65 and over living in their own homes/care homes with either functional or organic mental health illness. We provide high quality assessment, treatment, and care coordination which is informed by your professional bodies and National policy.

The post has opportunities to develop skills and knowledge via training, working alongside experienced practitioners and to be involved in service improvement.

You will mainly be covering the city of Ely and the surrounding villages but may also cover other areas of Cambridge as needed, so regular travel is required. Successful applicants will need to have a drivers license and access to a vehicle for work.

The post is based at Princess of Wales Hospital. CPFT supports agile working, with flexibility for work-life balance. Visits to the team are welcome. There is free parking and a café onsite.

Main duties of the job

Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

You will have the opportunity to manage a caseload of service users, delivering a diverse range of clinical skills delivering therapeutic and recovery-based interventions. We seek to empower service users and carers to actively engage in their recovery journey, working alongside a range of third sector organisations.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure at times, and with a desire for innovation. We support agile working for staff, using all appropriate I.T equipment and support

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Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Mental Health practitioners will provide assessment and interventions for people with significant mental health conditions
• Offer advice and guidance to colleagues in the wider team on common mental health conditions.
• Participate in MDT meetings and ensure key information is recorded in shared care plans
• Work closely with the mental health integrated care team in order to provide an excellent mental health service.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Relevant professional registered qualification ((Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social worker)
• Training in supervision and appraisal

• Post qualifying training
• Non-medical prescribing qualification
• Pertinent qualifications to the specialism

Experience

• Significant relevant experience in working within a mental health service
• Registered Student mentor

• Experience of working with older adults and/or community mental health settings
• Have a lived experience of mental health challenges
• Experience of clinical and managerial supervision of junior staff

Other

• Positive approach to older people
• Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
• Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
• Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude

Skills and abilities

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Excellent clinical skill in assessment and interventions for common mental health conditions
• Excellent communication skills and ability to summarise information and communicate with colleagues
• Excellent understanding of the needs of carers
• Ability to communicate effectively with people in distress or with communication difficulties

• Experience of working with nursing home and care providers
• Experience as safeguarding investigator
• Experience of doing Best Interest Assessments

Knowledge and understanding

• Understanding of statutory framework and care commissioning including: safeguarding, commissioning of care and Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity act
• Knowledge of research in field

Physical

• Ability to travel in the community
• Ability to sit for sustained periods of time

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people’s mental health services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.