Community Mental Health Practitioner - Crisis Team (CRHT)
Job overview
We are excited to offer an opportunity for a NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), an HCPC Registered Occupational Therapist or a Registered Social Worker to join our Home Crisis Treatment Team (CRHT) as a Community Mental Health Practitioner based in Stafford, Staffordshire.
This is an exciting time to join our service and provides you with an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills and achieve your goals.
We work with people who are experiencing a mental health crisis, require extra support alongside their regular support network or who can have the same treatment provided at home that they would receive in a Mental Health Hospital.
As an integral team in the Urgent Care Pathway, we work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and you will be required to work shifts patterns including weekends and nights. Due to the nature of this role, you must have access to suitable transport to cover the large geographical area during your shifts.
Main duties of the job
Working as a Mental Health Practitioner within the adult community mental health pathway will require with the flexibility of working across pathways, dependent on skill and service need.
As part of this role, you will be expected to:
- Working in an identified adult community mental health pathway, with the flexibility of working across pathways, dependent on skill and service need.
- Delivering high-quality clinical service to service users and their families.
- Managing a complex caseload and being responsible for clinical and caseload supervision of other team members where identified.
- Operating as a care coordinator for a defined caseload of service users
- Delivering therapeutic interventions, following an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health-related difficulties.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:
- Supporting your career development and progression.
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccination every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early depending on how many applications we get through.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the role please see attached the person specification and job description.
Please check out the following videos from showcasing why MPFT is a great place to work:
Why Work for Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
Development and Progression Within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
What is it like to be a Mental Health Nurse in a community setting at MPFT? - YouTube
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Mental Health Professional qualification (RMN/OT/Social Worker)
- Active on relevant Professional register
- Psychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, CBTP, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working with people experiencing mental health related difficulties.
- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs.
- Experience of assessing, planning co-ordinating and managing people with mental health problems in a community setting.
- Experience of working in community setting and making decisions autonomously.