Mental Health Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

You will be either a Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Registered Mental Nurse looking for a new challenge.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

If you are an enthusiastic practitioner who is keen to try and upskill themselves andadvance into becoming a more established community practitionerthen we want to hear from you.

The national direction of travel, outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan, is towards the provision of more integrated, personalised and place-based care.

In line with this vision, CNWL have created multidisciplinary, health and social care Community Mental Health Hubs which are aligned to, and will work closely with, borough Primary Care Networks.

This post holder will be a member of the South Kensington and Chelsea Community Mental Health hub delivering care to a set population of the borough.

The post holder will be a member of the multi-disciplinary and carry a caseload with an intervention focus. You will provide a range of evidence-based interventions to help promote recovery.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

We can offer;

Flexible workingwith the opportunity to workcondensed hoursandworking from home
Working within adynamic teamwith visibility of the Senior Management Team (Service Manager & Borough Director)
A range ofstaff benefitsincluding "kids pass", range of salary sacrifices schemes (inc for electronic goods and 30% savings on a car), interest free loans and more
Awardwinning Staff Networksthat have thousands of members and exciting events.
Career mappingand development programmes.
Support and guidancewith your Professional registration.
Opportunity toshadow senior Leaders
Hidden Gem & annualaward ceremonies.

The Team serves the population of South Kensington & Chelsea, a diverse and vibrant borough. It is an established team with a friendly, supportive culture. There is a visible, supportive management team and a strong emphasis on training and professional development opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical

1.1 To provide management of a caseload of service users with enduring and complex mental health needs through provision of therapeutic care and treatment in the individual's own home and other community venues.

1.2 To assess health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.

1.3 To undertake risk assessments, according to Trust policy.
1.4 To proactively undertake and ensure rigorous risk assessment & risk management strategies are applied. To ensure maximum 'risk tolerance' facilitates the individual's recovery, in line with risk policies and local guidelines.

1.6 To plan, implement and review individually tailored programmes of intervention

1.7 To support service users and colleagues to ensure that care plans are developed in partnership with the individual and that they reflect 'recovery goals'.

These should be strengths-based and oriented towards reinforcing a positive identity and developing valued social roles.
1.8 To work in partnership with other agencies and offer supervision and guidance to external agencies as required.

1.9 To identify and implement relevant procedures in relation to vulnerable adults, safeguarding, child protection, capacity and Deprivation of Liberty (DoLs) issues.

1.10 To identify carers needs in line with national requirements.

1.11 To support service users in relation to their physical health, employment, and housing and welfare benefits issues; referring to specialist provider services as necessary.

1.12 To provide all service users on caseload with a full adult mental health assessment and offer regular monitoring of mental state and medication monitoring.

1.13 As a Key Worker, to co-ordinate and manage all aspects of an individual's treatment and care; this will include retaining an overview of work by individuals from partner agencies.

1.14 To participate in the hub's triage function and to receive referrals from GP's and other sources
1.15 To participate in the hub's duty rota.

Communication

2.1 To demonstrate excellent communication skills and form positive therapeutic relationships using warmth and empathy and enable service user empowerment.

2.2 To establish and maintain effective communication networks with service users, with complex learning, emotional and behavioural needs, their carers, other professionals and agencies in order to ensure a comprehensive and consistent approach to client care.

2.3 To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, condition related or distressing/unwelcome information t