Community Mental Health Practitioner / Nurse
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of older people and their carers within the community? The OPMH East Devon Community Team, based at St Johns Road in Exmouth, is seeking a committed and compassionate Community Mental Health Practitioner / Nurse to deliver high quality mental health services across the East Devon area.
About The Role: As a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will manage a defined caseload, providing continuous assessment and personalised treatment to individuals with a range of mental health presentations. This rewarding role is central to supporting peoples recovery and wellbeing.
* Key working: Design and co-ordinate bespoke treatment packages tailored to individual needs.
* Caseload management: Take responsibility for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care.
* Liaison and partnership: Work closely with statutory and non-statutory agencies to ensure holistic support for service users and their carers.
* Team collaboration: Contribute effectively as an integral part of our multi-disciplinary team, sharing expertise and supporting joint working.
Main duties of the job:
* Contribute to the teams engagement including liaising with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
* Impart complex and sensitive information to patients and families/carers regarding assessment, care planning, treatment, and review.
* Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well co-ordinated 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.
* 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 complex to and from individuals and their families/carers and actively seek support as appropriate.
* Provide a high standard of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards.
* Participate in clinical meetings, reviews, professional meetings, and clinical risk meetings.
* Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies.
* Facilitate fair access to social care services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
* Actively contribute to multi-disciplinary team working.
About Us
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.
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.
Person Specification:
Essential Skills and abilities:
* Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health presentations.
* Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
* Able to produce well written reports and Computer literacy.
* Able to recognise potential difficulties and participate in finding solutions with the ability to assess risk.
* Able to prioritise work to reflect changing needs.
* Able to work independently and as part of a team.
* Ability to manage own time and the ability to work flexibly.
* Ability to be mobile across a geographical area in a timely manner and in accordance with service need.
* Good clinical assessment skills.
* Ability to manage change in a positive manner.
Desirable:
* Able to participate and present information in a group setting.
Essential Experience:
* An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements.
* An understanding of CPA Process.
Desirable Experience:
* Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health.
* Understanding of Health and Social Care Agenda for Older Adults.
* Understanding of Organic Presentations in Older Adults.
* Managing a caseload of clients with a range of mental health presentation.
* Experience of working with older adults with mental health problems.
* Working within a community setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
* Providing clinical supervision.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
Essential Qualifications:
* An appropriate professional Mental Health qualification and registration e.g. RMN, OT or Social Worker.
Desirable Qualifications:
* Training to level 2 in Safeguarding Adults, children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff.
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