Join to apply for the Community Mental Health Practitioner role at Islet Systems.
Location: Newton Abbot, TQ12 4PH
Salary: £29970.00 to £36483.00
Date posted: 20th March 2025
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Job Description
We are currently looking for a highly motivated and innovative Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner to join our CMHT. Teign Core Mental Health Team is a dynamic, nurturing and supportive team where there is excellent peer support and opportunity for development. You will have a reasonably sized caseload and will also support our assessment function.
Please note this is a 6 month fixed term position.
Main duties of the job
Teign Core Mental Health Team provides compassionate, kind and recovery-focused care to our patients, carers and their families. You will need to be able to work autonomously in the community and use your own initiative. The successful candidates will have sound clinical skills, with a desire to continue their development as the team grows. You will also need good assessment and communication skills. There will be lots of shadowing/training opportunities to help you develop in the role and you will need to work alongside other agencies to promote holistic recovery-focused care.
About Us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
Our values
We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate the behaviours which underpin the core values of our organisation. These values include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health & learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader Employer.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.
Person Specification
Experience
* Postgraduate experience in at least two inpatient settings or substantial experience working within a mental health and/or learning disabilities setting.
Knowledge & Skills
* An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements.
* An understanding of CPA Process.
* Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
* Ability to be mobile across a geographical area.
Qualifications
* An appropriate up to date professional mental health qualification eg RMN, OT or social worker on the appropriate professional body register and hold current registration with no restrictions.
* Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name: Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address: Teign Core Adult Mental Health Team, Estuary House, Newton Abbot, TQ12 4PH
Employer's website: https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/
Contact Information
Community Team Manager: Becky Down
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Part-time
Job function: Health Care Provider
Industries: Mental Health Care
#J-18808-Ljbffr