Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £37338.00 to £44962.00
Date posted: 14th February 2025
Closing date: 2nd March 2025
Job Description:
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner to work within the East & Mid Devon Home Treatment Team Based at Wonford House. The primary roles and purpose of the team is to provide home treatment, avoiding hospital admission where possible and if admission is indicated, we work with clients throughout this time and endeavour to facilitate early discharge.
Main duties of the job:
* You will become part of a multi-disciplinary team creating care plans and strategies that deliver recovery-focused care for people with complex mental health needs.
* You will play a key role in a dynamic multidisciplinary team, working with multiple agencies on a daily basis.
* You will be confident working without supervision, with the knowledge to devise individual recovery plans for the people you see.
* You will be responsible for managing and directing the care of some of the most vulnerable people we are responsible for, many of whom will have complex and ongoing needs.
* You will use your skills and experience to develop packages of treatment that focus on recovery.
Essential Qualifications:
* A professional mental health qualification (RMN, Social Work, RGN or OT), on the appropriate professional body register and hold current registration with no restrictions.
* Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
* Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism.
* Mentoring students in line with professional requirements.
Essential Skills and Abilities:
* Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
* Able to produce well written reports.
* Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
* Ability to think and work independently/autonomously and with complex case load.
* Ability to manage risk.
* Ability to work flexibly.
Employer details:
Employer name: Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address: Wonford House Hospital, Dryden Road, Exeter, EX2 5AF
Contact Information: Clinical Team Manager, Jade Reeves, 07785518310
#J-18808-Ljbffr