Wesham Rehabilitation Centre is advertising an exciting post within Mental Health Rehabilitation clinical pathways. This will be a great opportunity for individuals to work as part of this team and initiative. You will be employed to support the Team Manager in varying tasks to ensure service delivery.
Wesham Rehabilitation Centre provides a model of rehabilitation care for 24 males, focusing on empowering the service user to gain or recover their confidence and skills that promote independence, autonomy, and encourage hope for the future while recovering from a mental health illness. Encouraging the skills necessary to transition back into a community setting.
Main Duties of the Job
We provide a welcoming and domestic feel to service users. The facility is registered with the CQC as an Open Community Rehabilitation service, registered to accommodate service users detained under the MHA. There is access to a full MDT including nursing staff, occupational therapists, psychology, medical staff, and physicians' associates.
Applicants must have experience and an expressed interest in working within the rehabilitation pathway.
About Us
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, 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.
For more information, please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job Responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy, please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Must hold a Mental Health professional qualification (RMN)
2. Completion of, or commitment to working towards, Management or Leadership training
3. Documented evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
Knowledge
Essential
1. Expert knowledge on mental health issues and how these impact on the individual, carers, and the wider community.
2. Expertise in current best practice in Adult Mental Health, and awareness of relevant government directives and legislation.
3. Specialist knowledge and application of mental health assessments and interventions using expert-level clinical reasoning.
4. Knowledge of current research in the specialist area and ability to implement it into own and others' practice.
Experience
Essential
1. Previous post-registration experience in a mental health service.
2. Use of evidence-based practice.
3. Extensive clinical experiences including individual and group.
Employer Details
Employer Name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Wesham Rehabilitation Unit
Preston
PR4 3HA
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