Mental Health Practitioner inBlandford inBlandford PUBLISHED 9 DEC 2023
Stand by, we'll show you...
For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
Dorset HealthCare is in partnership with
The Princes Trust
to support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we offer an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. Please contact to access the support.
Do you want to be part of an innovative and exciting service that supports children and young people with acute mental health problems in their homes? If so then a role in the Closer2Home service may be the job for you! We are looking for a mental health practitioner to join our team.
The Closer2Home team works to deliver a specialist service to help young people remain at home who otherwise would have been admitted to an inpatient hospital. The service operates 365 days a year from 8am-8pm across the county of Dorset. The Closer2Home team works intensively with young people in their homes to prevent admission.
Working as a team, you and your colleagues are responsible for designing and delivering time-limited programmes of intensive home treatment to young people with a range of needs, who would otherwise have been admitted to hospital. The team work collaboratively with community CAMHS, children's services, colleagues involved in 'transforming care,' bed and case managers and local inpatient units; using an interagency approach to provide the best care for the young people.
The applicant will be expected to provide clinical leadership to their local Closer2Home team. Each team has been modelled to have an optimal number and skill mix of staff to effectively address the needs of the young people the service will support.
For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
Dorset HealthCare is in partnership with
The Princes Trust
to support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we offer an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. Please contact to access the support.
Do you want to be part of an innovative and exciting service that supports children and young people with acute mental health problems in their homes? If so then a role in the Closer2Home service may be the job for you! We are looking for a mental health practitioner to join our team.
The Closer2Home team works to deliver a specialist service to help young people remain at home who otherwise would have been admitted to an inpatient hospital. The service operates 365 days a year from 8am-8pm across the county of Dorset. The Closer2Home team works intensively with young people in their homes to prevent admission.
Working as a team, you and your colleagues are responsible for designing and delivering time-limited programmes of intensive home treatment to young people with a range of needs, who would otherwise have been admitted to hospital. The team work collaboratively with community CAMHS, children's services, colleagues involved in 'transforming care,' bed and case managers and local inpatient units; using an interagency approach to provide the best care for the young people.
The applicant will be expected to provide clinical leadership to their local Closer2Home team. Each team has been modelled to have an optimal number and skill mix of staff to effectively address the needs of the young people the service will support.
Please wait...this will take a moment...