Senior Mental Health Practitioner

We are looking for a band 6 senior mental health practitioner to join the Teignbridge OPMH team based in Newton Abbot.

The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health difficulties and their carers. This will include recovery co-ordination (design and co-ordination of treatment packages that are personalised and evaluated). The liaison with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role.

Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.

Impart highly complex and sensitive information to- patients and families/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review

Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well-coordinated care

Primary care teams regarding client care

External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g.: voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc.

Service user/carer groups

Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.

Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires.

Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex to and from individuals and their families/carers, where there may be barriers to understanding.

Provide high standard of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards

Participate in and chair clinical meetings, this will include professional meetings, and clinical risk meetings.

Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring.

Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies.

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options

Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and diagnosis which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence based and payment by results.

Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of individuals needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to formulate the most appropriate clinical plan.

Organise and facilitate complex meetings, these will include: professional and risk meetings.

Responsible for managing their own workload to ensure the needs to the individuals who use our services are met taking the wider needs of the team into consideration.

Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.

Plan and organise individuals packages of care and ensure that reviews are held within the required time frames, for example Section 117.

Plan own workload and the workload of junior colleagues to ensure that care is provided in the most high quality and cost efficient manner, prioritise and make adjustments as appropriate.

Ensure that caseload is well managed and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards and recovery co-ordination (CPA…