Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Crisis Triage Practitioner

The Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) provides a specialist service offering comprehensive assessment, treatment and care of service users who are experiencing severe mental health difficulties within the local community. The service also provides a dedicated point of entry system which manages all referrals which are either crisis, urgent or routine in a timely manner with an emphasis on solutions focused outcomes for patients and referrers.

This post will act as the main point of contact for the CMHT at first entry and manage all referrals into the service, whilst determining the urgency. This will sometimes entail contacting the patient to undertake a further assessment and working with existing patients who may require additional intensive case management to avert further escalation of their mental health.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Crisis Triage Practitioner for Caerphilly CMHT, the successful applicant needs to be highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic about working with service users in the community within the Community Mental Health Team based at North Caerphilly CMHT.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of an established and evolving integrated community mental health team. You will have knowledge and experience in the care of people with complex, severe and enduring mental health problems in a community setting. You will have the opportunity to link with the wider service which includes the CMHT clinics, CRHTT, AOT and the inpatient ward.

You will be committed to ensuring the delivery of the highest quality user-centred care and contribute to the development of adult mental health services in North Caerphilly., The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.