Senior Practitioner

The Senior Practitioner will receive professional supervision and line management from the Operational Lead. The Associate Clinical Director has overall responsibility for the work of the community services and also provides clinical leadership. The senior practitioners supports the Operational lead in providing a consistent, high quality service which is recovery focused, and sensitive to the needs of a diverse community. This is to ensure service delivery is of a consistently high standard and assisting the team in meeting these standards
In the NMHT and PCN, the Consultant Psychiatrists provides clinical leadership and the day to day management of non-medical staff is the responsibility of the Operational Lead, supported by the Senior Practitioners.
The post holder will form part of a small team of senior staff who undertake the initial assessment and triage of new referrals (ABT), ensuring that appropriate recommendations are made for the management of each case it is passed to a more junior member of staff.
This is a fixed term Senior Practitioner role within the Bethnal Green and Globe Town Neighbourhood Mental Health Team., 1. To provide assessment and treatment service to patients with complex mental health problems in Tower hamlets community, in coordination with other members of the Multi-disciplinary and occupational therapy team.
2. To promote and offer a range of clinical and non-clinical interventions within the Neighborhood Mental Health Team
3. To contribute to the on-going development and transformation of the care system
4. To provide effective signposting to a range of health, social, voluntary sector and community-based resources and services.
5. To work with patients to:
a. support shared decision-making about self-management;
b. provide brief therapeutic interventions, where qualified to do so and where appropriate;
6. To provide specialist nursing or OT input to service users accessing the Neighborhood, especially where needs are complex and where multiple factors impact on occupational performance.
7. To contribute to case formulations within the Neighborhood, incorporating experience and knowledge as a dually trained professional in both physical and mental health.
8. To participate at practice and network-based MDTs, share good practice and take part in training activities for other members of the MDT

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Across North-East London we have been developing new ways of bringing together health and social care professionals with our Voluntary sector and local communities to support people with severe mental health problems, including complex emotional needs associated with a diagnosis of 'personality disorder' and disordered eating., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.