Job summary
Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner
Grade: Band 6
Trust: South London &Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Lambeth EarlyOnset Community Mental Health Team, 190 Kennington Lane, SE11 5DL
Hours: Monday Friday
Pay rate: £ an hour
Main duties of the job
The South London & Maudsley NHS Trust provides a full range ofmental health services to people of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth, and Croydonas well as substance misuse services for people in Bexley, Greenwich, andBromley. The Trust provides specialist services to people from across the UK.
It has approximately 4,800 staff and a budget of £300 million. The trustalso works closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology andNeuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's HealthPartners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations inthe world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness.Their scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care andtreatment, science and research, and training.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be responsible for the assessment ofnewly referred adults who may be undergoing their first psychotic episode. To work withdiagnostic uncertainty, providing ongoing comprehensive assessment and outcomemonitoring of all caseload service users.
To assertivelyoutreach difficult to engage service users. To meet service users regularly, torespond flexibly when agreeing venue, such as home visit, team base, education,work or recreational establishment to assist with engagement & encourage participation in treatmentdelivery as well as facilitating independence
To involve familiesand carers in treatment plans where appropriate. This may requiredirect Family Intervention work. Ensuring services are provided within guidanceof the Children & Families' Act and Care Act.
To work in co-operationwith members of the multi-disciplinary team and all other relevant health and social care professionalsto assess, develop, implement and evaluate highquality packages of client-centred care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Desirable
1. In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
2. Relevant Qualifications
3. Registration with the relevant Registration Body
Experience
Essential
4. Knowledge and experience of Epjs for documentation
5. Experience of working in EIP
6. Experience of working in a community mental health team