Job summary
Job Purpose
The post holder will deliver high quality mental health services in this secondment role which involves managing a defined caseload. The focus will be providing continuous assessment and treatment to people with organic and functioanl mental health presentations and their carers. This will include recovery co-ordination (design and co-ordination of treatment packages that are personalised and evaluated in line with payment by results). The liaison with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role, in the care home education support team . The post holder will be an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team
Main duties of the job
The role will include:
- Providing complex assessment and care planning for individuals and their families/carers.
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Engage service users and carers assertively in the community.
- To develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with service users and their families and carers and other services to prevent hospital admission.
- Offer a range of NICE evidence based interventions
- To offer proactive risk management approaches to help the service user and their family.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships and networks with colleagues within mental health services, primary care and other partner agencies including physical health checks and interventions
- Provide interventions and work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid problems with substance use/misuse.
- Engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention.
- To support medication concordance.
- You will become an advocate for the people in your care, supporting and signposting them, so they can get back into employment or access housing, focusing on their recovery and helping them live the life they want to live.
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.
Details
Date posted
06 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Secondment
Duration
8 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9369-25-0893
Job locations
South Hams and West Devon
The Quay Plymouth Road
Tavistock
DEVON
PL19 8AB
Employer details
Employer name
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address
South Hams and West Devon
The Quay Plymouth Road
Tavistock
DEVON
PL19 8AB
Employer's website
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