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Mental Health Practitioner

Mental Health Practitioner

NHS Professionals Limited • Slough, United Kingdom
12 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
Job Summary
Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner - 90250
Trust: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location: New Horizons, Slough SL1 5BX
Ward: Slough Adults Mental Health Service
Banding: Band 6
Pay Rates: £25.84 p/h excluding holiday pay
Shift Patterns: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Why might this job interest you?
This is an exciting opportunity for the position of a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the Slough Community Mental Health Team (CMHS) at a time of new developments for the service.

Within the CMHS we have Senior Mental Health Practitioners who work as named workers in a longer-term way with people who live with severe and enduring mental illnesses. There are also a number of Senior Mental Health Practitioners who work in with smaller caseloads in a more intense, goal-orientated way for shorter periods. This is usually especially helpful for patients who require support to change their social circumstances.

You will work alongside dedicated clinicians from other disciplines: Psychologists, CBT Therapists, Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses and Social Workers. We work in a multi-disciplinary way, undertaking comprehensive BioPsychoSocial assessments, developing transdiagnostic treatment plans, and with a focus on reablement and positive risk taking.

Main Duties of the Job
  • Be responsible for identifying the specific interventions and skills required from the multidisciplinary team to deliver the plan of care and expected health/social outcomes which are evidenced based and lead to recovery and minimise risk.
  • Discuss required needs with the patient and/or their carer and formulate a realistic care plan based on identified needs that are recovery oriented. Plan and implement associated interventions and evaluate care plans.
  • Have an extensive knowledge of medication and their effects to support service users to comply with medication regimes. Where appropriate to administer depot medication.
  • Have responsibility for specialist mental health assessment, formulation, and development of multidisciplinary and multi-agency packages of care to people with serious mental health problems.
  • Provide interventions in the most appropriate settings according to service user need and choice, including clients own homes, community venues, and CMHS premises.

About Us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

  • Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
  • Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
  • Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Person Specification
Travel
Essential
  • Car Driver as need to be able to travel between sites.

Experience
Essential
  • Experience of working in community mental health services, minimum two years post-qualification experience of working with adults with mental health problems.

Qualifications
Essential
  • Registered Mental Health Practitioner.
  • Diploma or degree level professional qualification.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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