Senior Community Mental Health Practioner

To provide efficient and effective advanced specialist and general mental health practitioner assessment and intervention to the clients who are care coordinated within the MACC Team MDT.

To create personalised treatment programmes co-produced alongside client's strengths and their support network to support them to manage with complex health conditions.

The AHP/Registered Practitioner will be aware of physical and psychological factors living with long term health conditions and frailty and will support the stabilisation of their social situations and engagement in mental health treatments with the view to improve quality of life and wellbeing.

To promote excellent collaborative working links with partnership agencies across the health, social and voluntary sectors to ensure the clients have the best possible support network to utilise the most appropriate health and social care services with the view to reduce and prevent unplanned hospital admissions.

Main duties of the job

To be the Lead mental health specialist within the MACCT

To contribute to the triage of the referral and allocation process for new referrals received by the service.To provide highly specialist advice complete, complete assessments and the completion of individual care plans, which take account of risk assessments and individuals psychological and physical health needs (frailty).

To maintain a role as care coordinator of a case load of clients whose range of needs require 'complex' arrangements of care.

To ensure good caseload management in including that discharges or transfers of care are progressed in a safe and timely manner.

To implement a variety of psychological interventions for MACCT caseload (e.g. anxiety management).

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.