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Preston East Community Mental Health Team within Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join their well-established team.
The team provides clinical and practical intervention to adults with complex mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions. Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of patients, their families and carers.
The role involves working as a mental health practitioner in a well established team, including acting as a keyworker and supporting a caseload of clients with varying mental health diagnoses. As a keyworker you will work closely with people in their own homes or in the community to help them recover from their illness and improve their general quality of life. This role includes assessing patients, providing care/support, developing risk assessments, collaborative care planning, medication management and physical health monitoring, managing patient documents. Alongside becoming an advocate for the people in your care, supporting and signposting them, so they can focus on their recovery and helping them live the life they would like to live.
We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent team working skills, who will promote teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion. We are looking for someone who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. You should be a competent and motivated practitioner with appropriate demonstrable experience in accordance with the Trust values and your governing Professional body. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic intervention in the community.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. You will receive regular supervision, access to CPD opportunities within this role.
Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached as your application will be measured against this document.
All applicants must have current UK Professional registration, and be able to meet the travel requirement of the role.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Phil Robinson Job title: Team Manager Email address: Philip.robinson@lscft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01772 401275
For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Phil Robinson, Team Manager on 01772 401275 or via email at Philip.robinson@lscft.nhs.uk
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