Community Mental Health Practitioner (RMN / OT / SW)- IMHT Lichfield

You will be responsible for the assessment of care needs and contributing to; the formulation of the person's needs and the development of a relevant plan based upon the person's negotiated goals and relevant evidence based interventions.
You will, in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team, provide therapeutic interventions to support the person to meet their agreed goals and coordinate and/ or participate in the review of progress towards those goals, utilising recommended outcome measures, involving the service user and any identified carer throughout the clinical pathway., The Integrated Mental Health teams work as part of a 'neighbourhood' offering place based provision of mental health services in partnership with other local organisations. Clinicians within the IMHT will offer interventions and treatments which are concordant with NICE guidelines, and allocation within the team will be based on the needs of the service user, matching clinician skills to service user needs.
The successful candidate can expect the following:
+ Support with settling into the team and developing into the role.
+ Right from the start of joining the team, a clear and ongoing conversation about your skills and personal career progression, which is managed through the Trust's appraisal process.
+ A commitment to supporting you to remain up to date with your practice and develop skills through formal and informal training.
+ Regular, high quality clinical and managerial supervision.
+ Warm, friendly and supportive colleagues.
+ Collective leads who are committed to the psychological and physical wellbeing of staff in the pathway.
+ A continual commitment to embrace lean methodology to improve the quality of the services provided for patients/their carers and the experience of staff working within the pathway.
+ You will belong to a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team which includes nursing colleagues, allied health professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, support workers and peer support workers.
+ Our last CQC inspection achieved Good throughout the trust making us a great trust to work for.
+ Staff wellbeing is at the heart of the organisation with regular events held throughout the year. See our twitter feed @mpftBigShoutOut and #mpftBigSoothe
The usual hours of work are Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm. You will also be required to travel over large geographical area so you must have access to suitable transport.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early depending on the volume of applications we receive.

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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, 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 annual 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 vaccination 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.