Community Mental Health Practitioner

The successful candidate will manage a caseload of service users, with a range of diagnoses and needs. They will be responsible for arranging care, liaison with other professionals and agencies as well as managing and reviewing care plans and risk assessments, ensuring these are done collaboratively and in a recovery focused manner. The successful candidate will also be able to offer evidence based clinical decisions and treatment options.

They will take responsibility as the duty worker on a rota basis, providing support to the wider core team caseload which may include medication queries, concerns from family members and generalised support. This may also include responding to crisis calls from the wider caseload when on the duty rota.

They will be able to offer support to other disciplines within the team and be confident in their decision making. The successful candidate should be able to support with and offer supervision to junior staff within the team.

The successful candidate will be an efficient organiser, managing their workload and be flexible to meet the needs of service.

We are looking for a motivated and friendly individual who puts service users first and in the centre of their care. We are looking for someone who will be open, honest, and transparent and someone who is ready for today, relevant for tomorrow and is willing to take on training opportunities to help develop and improve our service further. If this is you then you will be a perfect fit.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.