Mental Health Community Practitioner - Malvern

Job summary

An opportunity to become a Mental Health Practitioner in Malvern has arisen which is a great opportunity to flex and develop your skills in working with people with a wide range of mental health-related needs in a creative way, supported by a close-knit, warm and friendly team.

Your role includes representing our service within a GP surgery, acting as a point of expert contact for GPs and other professions working within a defined locality. It also involves the exercise of considerable autonomy, though with support readily available and is perhaps unique in terms of the range and variety of people for whom you will be providing care, as well as being a role that involves learning skills for managing longer-term therapeutic relationships. Your working day will involve spending time both at our base with the team, as well as time out at GPs and in the community. Homeworking, in-keeping with the autonomy inherent to the role, is also available.

Main duties of the job

• Travelling to your GP surgery in the morning to see two new patients for assessment. While there, dropping in on one of the GPs to talk about one of the assessments and run through another proposed referral to decide on the best mental health pathway for them.
• Travel to base and write up the assessments and have the opportunity to talk through any concerns with fellow team members. You decide who you will be taking onto your caseload; no one allocates to you.
• Attending professional meetings, including ward reviews via Teams or in person to review patients in your care
• Attending MDT every Wednesday via Teams. Tend to work from home that day. Made some internal referrals to other team members and discussed some concerns about other patients youve been working with.
• Meeting some of your longer-term patients and reviewing where youve got to with their care. Its good to work from a well-established relationship.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)
• Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Rowan House

Osborne Road

Malvern

Worcestershire

WR14 1JE

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Rowan House

Osborne Road

Malvern

Worcestershire

WR14 1JE

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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