Senior Home Treatment Mental Health Practitioner RMN/SW/OT
Band 6
Main area: Mental Health
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 351-FYL562-CLK-B
Site: Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team Blackpool Town
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/01/2025 23:59
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community-based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
This is an exciting opportunity for a senior mental health practitioner to join the Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team.
The Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team provides 24-hour support to service users who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute inpatient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide high-quality care in a community setting.
Main duties of the job
The Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team is always striving towards excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are achieved. Currently, the team is undergoing an exciting period of change that will see them working together to develop a model of care that ensures effective service delivery in partnership with local services and across the Urgent Care Pathway.
The successful applicant will be dynamic and forward-thinking, passionate about working with service users with acute mental health concerns and providing a recovery-focused approach. They will have the ability to work as part of a team and in partnership with local services.
There will be an expectation that the successful applicant will also undertake night duty and shift work as part of their role. Successful applicants will be provided with a full induction and appraisal to formulate a Personal Development Plan and identify training and development needs.
Working for our organisation
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 encourages flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Education
* Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN/Dip SW/OT)
* ENB 998 or equivalent teaching/supervision qualification
Knowledge
* In-depth knowledge of mental health problems
* In-depth knowledge of issues that impact upon people with mental health problems
* Detailed knowledge of the impact of risk and protective factors that affect people with mental health problems
Experience
* Experience of post-qualification clinical work with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems
* Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions in a time-limited framework
* Evidence of assessment across a broad range of mental health problems
For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website.
You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date, then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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