Community Mental Health Practitioner

We are looking for a Community Mental Health Practitioner with a social work or mental health, children's or LD Nursing background to join us in the CYP crisis and intensive support team supporting the Specialist Mental Health Practitioners and the wider MDT.
This role will entail
+ Delivering a high quality clinical service to children and their families.
+ Care coordination of an identified caseload with access to regular and robust supervision.
+ Delivering professions specific mental health interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of children and families experiencing mental health related difficulties., + Take responsibility, with supervision from senior members of staff, for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with child and family, delivering treatment interventions and evaluation of individual treatment plans (Care Programme Approach).
+ Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
+ Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and service guidance including; pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
+ Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise the performance/independence of the child.
+ Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
+ Participate in the development of the service to ensure clinical governance processes are actively implemented at team level.
+ Assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the team (as set by the senior clinical and operational team) are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
+ The post holder will be required to work within their relevant professional code of conduct and guidelines

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
+ Supporting your career development and progression
+ Excellent NHS Pension scheme
+ Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
+ Options for flexible working
+ Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
+ Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
+ If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
+ Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
+ Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
+ Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
+ Free car parking at all trust sites
+ Free flu vaccinations every year
+ Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications