Community Mental Health Practitioner inLichfield inLichfield PUBLISHED
MON 2 DEC 2024
Band 5: £29,970 to £36,483 a year Per annum
PERMANENT GOOD SALARY
CASELOAD FAMILY MENTAL HEALTH NHS SOCIAL WORK
The Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Mental Health Practitioner to join their Children and Young People's (CYP) crisis and intensive support team in Lichfield. The ideal candidate will have a background in social work, mental health, children's, or learning disabilities nursing and will be responsible for delivering high-quality clinical services to children and their families. Key responsibilities include care coordination for an assigned caseload, delivering profession-specific mental health interventions per care plans, and managing a complex caseload under supervision. The role also involves conducting assessments, developing care programs, executing and evaluating treatment interventions, and implementing robust risk assessments and management plans.
Additionally, the practitioner will participate in service development and ensure clinical governance processes are followed within the team. The position demands adherence to professional codes of conduct and an ability to foster positive risk-taking to enhance the quality of life and independence of the young patients. Regular supervision and support from senior staff will be provided to help achieve the team’s objectives and align with the overall aims of the organisation.
Additionally, the practitioner will participate in service development and ensure clinical governance processes are followed within the team. The position demands adherence to professional codes of conduct and an ability to foster positive risk-taking to enhance the quality of life and independence of the young patients. Regular supervision and support from senior staff will be provided to help achieve the team’s objectives and align with the overall aims of the organisation.
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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