Community Mental Health Practitioner

Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner will be based within neighbourhood-based community mental health teams which provide integrated health and social care services. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside colleagues from a range of professional backgrounds, they will undertake assessments of need and coordinate the development of sustainable recovery-focussed care plans. They will provide practical support and carry out planned interventions to address assessed needs and to overcome barriers to access and social inclusion. Using a strengths-based approach they will support service-users to develop their own solutions, minimising long-term dependence on services through self-directed support and promoting the take-up of personal budgets where appropriate. To manage a caseload of mental health service-users with complex needs as lead professional and care co-ordinator under the CPA process. To use evidence-based and client-centred principles to assess needs and to plan,
implement and evaluate health and social care interventions To facilitate flow through the service and timely step-down to low intensity services and primary care. To provide leadership for junior staff through supervision and appraisal. To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of MDT services, holding personal responsibility for defined projects and areas of responsibility. To mentor and supervise students on practice placements To carry out MDT activities e.g. coordinating meetings and undertaking duty responsibilities To provide profession-specific interventions for the wider team as required and in line with NICE guidelines To offer/provide timely NICE concordant interventions to clients with SMI and their carers To participate in team training and mandatory training and ongoing professional development.