Senior Mental Health Practitioner (Nurse)

Job summary

Are you an experienced mental health professional with a passion for working with older people? Join our dynamic and supportive team in the Older Peoples Mental Health (OPMH) Community Team based in Exeter.

We are seeking a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to deliver high-quality, compassionate, and person-centred care for older adults experiencing complex mental health difficulties. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping care and support for people across the Exeter area.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health care. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health difficulties and their carers. This will include supporting and co-ordinating care. The liaison with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role.

The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other members and participating in team and service development, and evaluation.

Main duties of the job

• Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
• Impart highly complex and sensitive information to :
• Patients and families or carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review.
• Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well-coordinated care
• Primary care teams regarding client care
• External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g.: voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc.
• Service user/carer groups
• Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
• Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires.
• Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex to and from individuals and their families/carers, where there may be barriers to understanding.
• Provide high standard of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards
• Participate in and chair clinical meetings, this will include CPA and non CPA reviews, professional meetings, and clinical risk meetings.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring whilst employing negotiating techniques to gain cooperation from highly complex individuals.

About us

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Knightshayes

Hospital Lane

Exeter

Devon

EX1 3RB

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Knightshayes

Hospital Lane

Exeter

Devon

EX1 3RB

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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