CPN​/Registered professional CMHT | and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Overview

We have a post for a band 6 Registered Professionals within the team that we are looking to recruit to. These can be from any professional discipline – Nursing, Occupational therapy or Social Work. No matter which profession you are from you will be supported to maintain and utilise your specialist skills.

This will mean that we will cover a broad spectrum of diagnosis and presentations including people with emotion regulation difficulties, schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety, depression, OCD symptoms, and psychotic depression.

Our Team covers the locality of South Warwickshire. We have bases, one in Leamington Spa and Stratford Upon Avon and we work across both bases.

You would mostly be working across Stratford Upon Avon.

• Manage a caseload of clients who have complex mental health problems across all diagnostic presentations and deliver a range of interventions.
• Work within an established multidisciplinary team, using evidence-based approaches, and communicate with a wide variety of clients; professionals; partners and agencies.
• Develop specialist skills through training, shadowing colleagues, and taking part in assessments and visits when you first join the team.
• Participate in group interventions in addition to one-to-one work, with training provided within the team.
• Engage in clear collaborative care planning and maintain professional boundaries and expectations between patient and clinician.
• Some patients with a psychotic presentation may be managed through shared care within the team.

• Time spent investing in your development with opportunities to shadow colleagues on duty, during assessments and on visits.
• Access to a wide range of training opportunities within the team to enable progression to managing a full caseload, being part of a duty team, and undertaking trusted assessments.
• A supportive environment with shared learning, risk management, and professional development.

We are looking for staff with some experience of assessing and working with people with complex and significant mental health problems, or who wish to develop such skills. It is important to have good communication skills and to work on your own initiative as well as collaboratively with colleagues. A willingness and enthusiasm to learn new skills and develop your practice is vital.

This team provides interventions on a one-to-one basis and in group formats. You will have the opportunity to participate in groups and you will be given training within the team for this. Above all, it is vital that you have a sense of humour if you wish to join our team.

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