Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT) across the Black Country. As a Community Mental Health Recovery Practitioner, you will play a pivotal role in providing community rehabilitation in collaboration with Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs). You will work with a capped caseload of service users who are either in out-of-area rehabilitation placements and due for discharge or residing within the Black Country with a diagnosed Severe Mental Illness and requiring community rehabilitation support. Our service is underpinned by CHIME to promote Connectedness, Hope, Identity, Meaning and Empowerment. The post holder will work as part of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT) MDT, which includes a Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Support workers.
Responsibilities
* Care Coordination: Manage and coordinate patient-centred care for service users, ensuring their rehabilitation needs are met.
* Provide wrap around care: Work in partnership with CMHTs, Local Authority, care providers and family.
* Hospital Discharge Support: Facilitate smooth transitions from hospital to community settings.
* Recovery-Focused Interventions: Deliver tailored interventions aimed at building resilience, improving wellbeing, and addressing complex mental health needs.
* Assessment and Planning: Assess individual needs and risks to ensure that care packages are appropriate and effective.
* Intensive Support: Work closely with clients for up to 2 years, focusing on their individual, cultural, and social needs to help them achieve their optimum level of functioning and a fulfilling life.
* Step-Down Services: Ensure a seamless transition to locality-based services when appropriate.
* Liaison with external agencies to achieve personalised recovery outcomes for patients within the service.
* Service delivery and travel: The post holder will be able to operate flexibly across the Pan Trust area; some travel will be required to visit out of area placements to assess service users and review care provision.
* Working hours and access: The service will operate Monday to Friday 9–5; advise service users and carers of access to services outside of these hours and liaise with other mental health care providers when support outside of these hours is required.
* Team role: Contribute to the development and implementation of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team; work within an MDT to improve patients' recovery journey.
* Discharge and referral processes: Liaise with external services to facilitate discharge from out of area placements, coordinate 117 packages of care and support the referral process.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Internal at-risk employees will be given preference for this position.
* The Trust reserves the right to bring the closing date forward if there is an overwhelming response; apply early if you wish to be considered.
* If you are not successful at shortlisting, you will be notified; you can request feedback from the Recruitment Team.
* The salary range quoted is per NHS Agenda for Change pay structures, based on years of NHS experience; external NHS experience may affect placement on the scale.
* Successful applicants for clinical posts up to and including Band 4 are expected to hold the national Care Certificate qualification and will be supported to attain this once in post.
* The Trust is committed to equal opportunities and flexible working; it is a non-smoking organisation.
* We welcome applications from minority or marginalised communities and encourage applications from Black and Asian backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQ+ applicants. Applicants may request consideration under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) and reasonable adjustments to the interview process will be provided.
* Some posts may be subject to a Standard Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check; having a criminal record will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
About Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country. Across the region we provide: Adult and older adult mental health services; Specialist learning disability services; Mental health services for children and young people; Community healthcare services for children, young people and families.
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, following the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. The Trust currently employs over 4,000 people and values diversity. The Trust aims to improve health and wellbeing for everyone and to support staff with a good work/life balance. The Trust is building a high-calibre, diverse and inclusive mental health workforce to shape an outstanding service and deliver better community mental health care.
We are tackling dormitories and launching new models of integrated primary and secondary care for adults and older adults, with a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary approach that enables collaboration with partners, service users, carers, and families.
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