Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

A rewarding opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner within the Intensive Life Skills Pathway Team based in Shropshire.

We are a specialist community team working within the area of complex emotional needs providing assessment, formulation and intervention using a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) framework.Our focus is on treatment, recovery and enablement to increase peoples emotional social and practical functioning, through a combination of group skill based learning and individual therapy.

The post is open to current Nurses, Social Workers & Occupational Therapists who are looking to be part of this exciting team where you will have the opportunity to access further development and training within this role.

Main duties of the job

• As part of this role, you will be working in a specialist adult community mental health pathway, providing evidenced based interventions for an identified caseload of service users.
• You will be responsible for undertaking assessments in accordance with the clinical pathway, to establish the person's needs, goals, risks, and strengths, to inform and generate a formulation-based care plan, agreed with all involved.
• Responsibility for delivering evidenced based therapeutic interventions on a 1:1 and group basis, in accordance with an agreed care plan.

You will also have the opportunity to assist with consultations, support and supervision to other health professionals working within the Community Mental Health Service and other areas of the Trust, where identified as appropriate.

The ideal candidate:

• A relevant nursing qualification or other registration - RMN / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Therapist.
• Post qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses or training relevant to working with people with complex mental health needs, related to emotional instability.
• Ability to deliver group and individual interventions.
• Ability to work with service users expressing high levels of distress.
• A positive attitude and a caring and compassionate approach.
• Good communication skills

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications