Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Crisis Triage Practitioner
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 which 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, whilst determining the urgency. This will sometimes 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-centred 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 and 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.
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Experience
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Qualifications
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Skills
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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.
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