Invicta Health in partnership with Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) are seeking to recruit Community Mental Health Practitioners to be part of Mental Health Together.
Mental Health Together is a multi-agency offer, which means bringing all the services and agencies that support people with varying mental health needs much closer together. This ensures that people get the right care, without having to navigate service boundaries and without repeatedly telling their story.
The Registered Mental Health Nurse / Occupational Therapist will be expected to deliver stepped care by delivering a range of evidence-based interventions which will promote recovery, social inclusion and normalization for service users who suffer from mental health problems.
Main Responsibilities
* Foster recovery through empowerment of service users and carers by using a strengths-based approach involving the service user and carer in the planning of their care.
* Offer a range of evidence-based interventions and risk management approaches enabling the service user and carers to reduce and manage symptoms and high-risk behaviour in episodes of relapse.
* Be proactive, innovative, and creative in delivering care, enabling the facilitation of service users recovery.
* Engage service users and carers in relapse prevention and risk management /contingency plans, providing interventions that maximize the service users ability to resolve relapse crisis and prevents admission to hospital.
Person Specification
* Minimum of 2 years post registration experience.
* Previous experience of working in a community team.
* Registered Mental Health Nurse, or registered Occupational Therapist (holding diploma or degree qualification).
* MELPS (Mentoring and Enabling in a clinical setting).
We offer a range of benefits, including NHS pension, learning and development opportunities, health and wellbeing initiatives, and competitive annual leave entitlement.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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