Community Mental Health Practitioner

Are you a registered practitioner looking for a rewarding role where you are truly valued?

Are you passionate about providing excellent care to adults with complex Mental Health problems., We are committed to delivering high quality patient centred care and pride ourselves on good team working skills. It is therefore important that the successful candidate is a flexible team player and holds excellent interpersonal and communication skills to meet the needs of the patients, carers, families and the partners with whom we work.

As a Community Practitioner you will have a genuine interest in collaborative working with adults with sever and enduring mental health needs.

As a registered professional this is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to develop their community clinical skills. As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, providing ongoing assessment, care co-ordination as a Key Worker and delivering evidence based intervention in the community. You will demonstrate excellent assessment skills, interpersonal, and team working skills and be able to work flexibly and collaboratively with patients, families/ carers and a range of statutory organisations.

You will have an enthusiastic approach towards your own personal and professional development. In return, you will receive regular appraisal, clinical, management and caseload supervision and will benefit from the support of an experienced and committed multi-disciplinary leadership team, including the Team Manager and Advanced Practitioners.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care - our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

If so, we have a post available for a permanent full time Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner at Stockton Community Hub , working in our Community Intervention Health Team.

You will be an active member of our multi-disciplinary team (MDT), working as a Key Worker, with a caseload which will be challenging at times, as well as rewarding. We will offer you the opportunity to work with a highly skilled and experienced MDT providing support, development opportunities and supervision for you, as well as excellent standards of care for our service users and carers.

We are an established team covering Stockton working in peoples own homes and other care environments.

Please note that the standard working hours for this role are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm