Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking for a positive team player who has a special interest in working compassionately with individuals and their wider support networks.

The Band 7 Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner role has the specific focus of working with a cohort of Service Users who present with complex Health & Social Care needs and who might be more difficult to engage in services. Within this role you will have continuing responsibility for proactive assessment, monitoring and management of patients and ensuring care is current, evidence based and in line with practice standards.

In addition, you will provide clinical leadership to the team in evaluation and monitoring of the service, provide specialist assessment as per the service users, and carer's requirement. You will lead with other senior colleagues the continuing development of a high quality service that is underpinned by evidence based practice and care pathways / packages and NICE guidance and DH guidance; leading on service development and policy in conjunction with the other Advanced Practitioners, senior clinicians, Clinical Manager and Operational Services Manager.

Main duties of the job

To manage and oversee management and care of service users with highly complex needs and who might be difficult to engage with services.

To produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenance of accurate and timely documentation / records on all service users in line with your Professional Code of Conduct and Trust policy

To conduct and supervise assessment and observation to ensure appropriate and timely feedback to the team

To conduct, supervise and oversee risk assessments of the individual highly complex cases and the potential hazards in the service user's environment

To provide professional clinical leadership at multi-disciplinary meetings i.e. referral / review / business, professional or safeguarding meetings

To report and document incidents as required and act upon findings as appropriate

To act as a care coordinator in highly complex cases

To assess and review care and support and supervise lower banded staff in this process

To provide clinical leadership to staff within the Service

About us

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.