Community Mental Health Practitioner inLichfield inLichfield PUBLISHED 21 OCT 2024

Band 5: £29,970 to £36,483 a year Per annum PERMANENT GOOD SALARY

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust r93GkdJ0

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The post holder will be required to work within their relevant professional code of conduct and guidelines.

We are looking for a Community Mental Health Practitioner with a social work or mental health, children's or LD Nursing background to join us in the CYP crisis and intensive support team supporting the Specialist Mental Health Practitioners and the wider MDT.

This role will entail

Delivering a high quality clinical service to children and their families.
Care coordination of an identified caseload with access to regular and robust supervision.
Delivering professions specific mental health interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of children and families experiencing mental health related difficulties.

Take responsibility, with supervision from senior members of staff, for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with child and family, delivering treatment interventions and evaluation of individual treatment plans (Care Programme Approach).
Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and service guidance including; pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise the performance/independence of the child.
Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
Participate in the development of the service to ensure clinical governance processes are actively implemented at team level.
Assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the team (as set by the senior clinical and operational team) are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
The post holder will be required to work within their relevant professional code of conduct and guidelines

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Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details about the role.

This role will entail

Delivering a high quality clinical service to children and their families.
Care coordination of an identified caseload with access to regular and robust supervision.
Delivering professions specific mental health interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of children and families experiencing mental health related difficulties.

Take responsibility, with supervision from senior members of staff, for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with child and family, delivering treatment interventions and evaluation of individual treatment plans (Care Programme Approach).
Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and service guidance including; pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise the performance/independence of the child.
Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
Participate in the development of the service to ensure clinical governance processes are actively implemented at team level.
Assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the team (as set by the senior clinical and operational team) are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
The post holder will be required to work within their relevant professional code of conduct and guidelines