Community Practitioner inGateshead inGateshead PUBLISHED TUE 12 NOV 2024

If you are looking to work in a friendly, supportive and stimulating environment, that challenges your skills and allows you to progress and professionally develop, then this is the opportunity for you. We are based in an vibrant area of the North East which includes historical sites, beautiful coastlines and world class eateries.

We are a community treatment team based in Gateshead. We are comprised of nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, support workers, peer support workers and medical and leadership staff. We deliver high quality evidence based interventions to the population of our area who require support with psychosis and non psychosis related difficulties. We provide both individual and group interventions and there is a plethora of training and support opportunities available to our staff members.

If you would welcome the opportunity to become part of a warm, friendly and welcoming team with a great range of skills and experience then this is the post for you. Here within the Gateshead West Community Treatment Team there is a real sense of team spirit, and we are looking to add clinicians with this same positive outlook to our already excellent skill set. As part of this team, you will be encouraged to grow and develop in your role, and to contribute to the development of the service.

To be responsible for the assessment and management of casework of service users who have substantial and complex needs.

To deliver evidenced based Clinical and Psychologically based Interventions.

Coordinate Treatment Planning & Interventions, Reviews and Discharge Planning.

To complete duty days supporting the CTT when other clinicians are not available.

Working alongside other agencies to support services users with integrating into the community and supporting their biopsychosocial needs.

We are able to support staff to take up accredited training in evidence based therapies You will be able to develop your skills by working with service users who have a range of complex mental health needs with associated risk, and you will need to demonstrate experience of being able to plan and deliver in collaboration with service users, families and their carers.

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Advertising date : 12th November2024

Closing date : 26th November2024

We welcome your application.