Frailty Virtual ward Mental Health Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly specialised band 7 Mental Health Practitioner in the Community Frailty Team and Virtual wards within the Calderdale Area.

The Mental Health Practitioner will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, who will be available to support and advise staff on the prevention and proactive management of the needs of older people.

The key aims of the service are to:

Reduce urgent admissions and attendances to hospital.

Reduce unnecessary reactive demand on GPs.

To provide a seamless, high quality and integrated approach to caring for people in the community.

The post holder will be able to demonstrate highly specialised quality assessments and treatments for adult service users who experience a wide range of mental health difficulties and need support from mental health services.

We are seeking a practitioner who is highly experienced in assessments and treatments of people living with frailty.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be able to demonstrate highly specialised quality assessments and treatments for adult service users who experience a wide range of mental health difficulties and need support from mental health services.

We are seeking a practitioner who is highly experienced in assessments and treatments of people living with frailty.

The post holder will provide flexible and individualised care packages to meet the mental health requirements of patients with mental health needs and those requiring robust clinical risk assessment and treatment skills, along with an understanding of the occupational role and needs of individuals presenting to the service.

The post holder will be required to maintain clear lines of communication with a range of services within primary and secondary care, the Local Authority, and independent sectors.

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.