Early Intervention Practitioner

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join our dynamic Community Mental Health Team. In this role, you'll provide high quality, compassionate care to adults with first episode of Psychosis. You'll work collaboratively with a well established team to deliver personalised treatment plans, conduct comprehensive assessments and provide support to patients and carers as they navigate complex mental health challenges., To undertake assessments of service users needs, deliver care to those oncaseload and review same on regular basis.

To be responsible for sharing best clinical practice and to initiate innovative nursing practice using evidence based research.

Responsible for managing a caseload and providing responsive input to those within wider team caseload.

To have the clinical knowledge and skills to provide individual care plans.

To take a role in the development of an Early Intervention Team in consultation with a wide range of relevant stakeholders including service users, carers and mental health professionals and other relevant community agencies.

To establish therapeutic relationships and collaborative partnerships in order to ensure best working practice.

To provide mentorship of students undertaking statutory nurse training. To act as a role model for support workers and new team members. To be responsible for ensuring clinical supervision takes place. To contribute to team regarding actively promote mental health education with other agencies and within communities.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.

We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.