Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

The Bury Community Mental Health Team are looking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Community Mental Health Practitioner.

We are keen to hear from enthusiastic and passionate professionals (including RMN/RN/Social Worker/OT) and are able to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 within a well established Community Mental Health Team.

The successful candidates will work both autonomously and as a part of an MDT providing timely access to specialist services for working age adults with complex mental health needs.

The post will be based in Bury but there is an expectation that you will be able to travel across The Trust footprint.

Main duties of the job

• To act as named practitioner for a caseload of allocated clients.
• Take the lead in identifying risk and implementing safe and effective risk management strategies collaboratively.
• To support and empower clients through recovery focused collaborative care-planning.
• To work with the wider MDT to provide safe effective care in a recovery focused way.
• To ensure all documentation is relevant and up-to-date in-line with NMC/SWE/HCPC standards.
• To ensure safe and supportive discharge from inpatient services in line with The MHA (1983).
• To contribute to case formulation and treatment plans.
• To contribute to service development in collaboration with the wider team.
• To participate in the education programmes of nursing students and other disciplines.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel