We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via the email account you used to apply, so please check your account regularly.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top-up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top-up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum. This temporary top-up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job Overview
The Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) provides a specialist service offering comprehensive assessment, treatment, and care of service users who are experiencing severe mental health difficulties within the local community. The service also provides a dedicated point of entry system which manages all referrals that are either crisis, urgent, or routine in a timely manner with an emphasis on solutions-focused outcomes for patients and referrers.
This post will act as the main point of contact for the CMHT at first entry and manage all referrals into the service while determining the urgency. This may entail contacting the patient to undertake a further assessment and working with existing patients who may require additional intensive case management to avert further escalation of their mental health.
Main Duties of the Job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Crisis Triage Practitioner for Caerphilly CMHT. The successful applicant needs to be highly motivated, innovative, and enthusiastic about working with service users in the community within the Community Mental Health Team based at North Caerphilly CMHT.
This is an excellent opportunity to be part of an established and evolving integrated community mental health team. You will have knowledge and experience in the care of people with complex, severe, and enduring mental health problems in a community setting. You will have the opportunity to link with the wider service, which includes the CMHT clinics, CRHTT, AOT, and the inpatient ward.
You will be committed to ensuring the delivery of the highest quality user-centered care and contribute to the development of adult mental health services in North Caerphilly.
The successful applicant will be part of a developing service providing a high standard of evidence-based care to those in North Caerphilly.
This is a permanent post.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for Our Organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary, and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications, and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support, and have an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital, which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
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