Community Mental Health Practitioner

Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) Nursing Home Team (NHT) and Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) are recruiting motivated, innovative and critical thinking, dedicated practitioners to the team. This is rare opportunity; once part of the MHSOP team, clinicians tend to choose to stay in the service. This demonstrates the great working environment, team culture and pride in the excellence of care we provide to our local community.

MHSOP comprises organic and functional inpatient wards, Psychiatric Liaison Team, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, service specific social worker team, and Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs). The NHT is one of the three CMHTs.

We provide the highest quality, patient focused, person centred care planning, care co-ordination. You will work autonomously and demonstrate excellent ability in assessment and care planning including patient needs and risk. Providing training and education to the care homes is also part of the NHT role., Working as a community mental health practitioner your role will be to undertake the assessment and management of services users presenting with complex mental health care needs.

You will provide a comprehensive assessment of need, offering intervention, advice and support to service users, family, carers and other professionals involved in their care.

As part of the multidisciplinary team, you will ensure that care and treatment is delivered to a I high quality, ensuring that person centred care is deliver, risk are managed and appropriate treatment and other interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) are offered within a timely manner.

You will contribute to the effective care planning of the service user's needs by providing regular reviews, risk assessment with the goal of working towards safe discharge planning.

You will practice in accordance with the Trust's Values: Respect, Everyone's Contribution Counts, Responsibility & Accountability, Patients First, Safe & High Quality Care.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes'