[ref. a59108321] Senior Mental Health Practitioner - NHS
NHS Jobs Plymouth
Senior Mental Health Practitioners provide brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short
- term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis.
Working within the community, Senior Mental Health Practitioners provide face-to-face assessments working closely with other mental health services and agencies; such as the police, ambulance and local authority.
Using a range of brief solution-focused interventions, Senior Mental Health Practitioners empower patients, carers and their families in decision making and divert to a range of health and social care resources for support.The post involves working with clients of the First Response Service in a range of settings.
These include primary care settings, community settings, and other health service sites, as required.
This could include the Joint Response Unit vehicle.
Lone working in the community is a major element of this job as is potential exposure to verbal and physical aggression.
The working environment includes exposure to high levels of distress in others The First Response Service links closely with our AMHP Service including the Joint Response Unit:- As such the postholder, subject to demonstrating the necessary skills and attributes, and dependent on post and course/funding availability, could consider applying to undertake AMHP training (there will be an additional internal recruitment process at this point);
- The role could also involve working alongside multi-agency colleagues (ie Police, Paramedics) during the evenings providing acute assessment and care and support to people experiencing mental health crisis in the community (responding in a marked response vehicle).
The nature of the working environment requires regular and frequent travel from base to and between the above-mentioned settings.
The role will require working collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within a multi-disciplinary team in delivering services.The First Response Service provides a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts.
There is a requirement for substantial periods of concentration and sitting.
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