Are you an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Mental Health Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist looking to take the next step in your career?
This is a fantastic opportunity to broaden your professional experience and deepen your expertise within a supportive and forward-thinking multidisciplinary team. We provide specialist mental health services to adults aged 18–65 living in the London Borough of Croydon. Our team offers timely assessments, expert advice, and tailored care planning for individuals experiencing moderate to severe mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, and personality disorders.
Working alongside dedicated professionals, nurses, doctors, social workers. You'll collaborate closely with service users, their carers, and GPs to ensure holistic, person-centred care.
As a Senior Practitioner You Will Operate As a Highly Skilled And Autonomous Clinician, Delivering Specialist Mental Health Assessments, Care Planning, And Brief Interventions For Adults Referred To The Service. You Will
* Conduct comprehensive needs assessments and develop tailored care plans.
* Provide short-term interventions (up to 12 weeks) to support recovery and wellbeing.
* Signpost service users to appropriate external services and facilitate safe discharge to primary care where suitable.
* Supervise and support community practitioners, contributing to their development and ensuring high standards of care.
You will work collaboratively with a wide range of professionals and services on a daily basis, including:
* Multidisciplinary colleagues within the team.
* Other borough-based mental health teams.
* External agencies and primary care providers.
In addition to clinical responsibilities, you will support the Team Leader and Service Manager in maintaining service delivery, which includes:
* Monitoring performance against key targets.
* Managing staff absences and ensuring adequate team coverage.
* Providing supervision to junior staff.
* Offering management support and leadership in the Team Leader's absence.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Benefits
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
* Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
* Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options
* Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
* Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
* NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other Benefits Include
* Croydon Carers parking permit
* Counselling services
* Wellbeing events
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Patricia Phillip Job title: Service Manager Email address:
If you would like further information about the vacancy or team, please contact the hiring manager via e-mail