The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team within Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 5, Mental Health Practitioner to join their well established team.
The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team provides support and intervention to Adults with severe and enduring and complex mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions
Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of patients, their families and significant others. The role involves working as a team member, with the responsibility of a mixed caseload of differing mental health diagnosis.
We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent team working skills, who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. You should be a competent and motivated practitioner with appropriate demonstrable experience. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic intervention in the community
You will act as a key worker and work closely with people in there own homes or in the community to help them recover from their illness and improve their general quality of life. This role includes assessing patients, providing care/support, developing risk assessments, collaborative care planning, medication management and physical health monitoring, managing patient documents. Along side becoming an advocate for the people in your care, supporting and signposting them, so they can focus on their recovery and helping them live the life they would like to live
There has never been a more exciting time to join our Trust. You will be joining at a time when the implementation and delivery of the Community Transformation Programme is underway which aims to transform the way community mental health services are accessed and delivered.
CRB Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions Order) 1975 (Amendments) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Ability to meet the travel requirements of the role is essential for the post.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Maintain high standards of care.
Undertake and promote practice sensitive to the needs of service users from diverse, disability and minority ethnic backgrounds.
To advocate on behalf of service users and carers.
Empower service users and their carers.
Engage and work with service users and at times family members, who exhibit highly disturbing challenging, unpredictable and aggressive behaviour on an average daily/weekly basis. This includes service users who experience hallucinations/delusional ideation and who may have children who are on the “at risk” register.
Receive complex and sensitive information from service users, carers and the multidisciplinary team, which can be conflicting. There may also be barriers to communication if a service user is experiencing hallucinations or if from an ethnic minority background.
Participate in the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of standards of effective service user care.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient, child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached as your application will be measured against this document.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024