CPN​/Registered professional - South Warwickshire CMHT

Overview

We have a post for a Band 6 Registered Professional 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.

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, including bases in Leamington Spa and Stratford Upon Avon.

The team has invested in considerable staff training and development over the years to develop skills with working with our patient group. Working within an established team, you will be managing a caseload of clients who have complex mental health problems across all diagnostic presentations and delivering a range of interventions.

You will have the opportunity to gradually build your skills and confidence as part of a multi-disciplinary team using evidence-based approaches. You will be communicating with a wide variety of clients, professionals, partners and agencies.

• Managing a caseload of clients with complex mental health problems
• Delivering a range of interventions and evidence-based approaches
• Communicating with clients, professionals, partners and agencies
• Collaboratively planning care and managing expectations with patients and clinicians
• Sharing responsibility and knowledge within the team to support shared care for psychotic presentations
• Progressing to case management, managing a full caseload, participating in a duty team and undertaking trusted assessments

• Band 6 Registered Professional in Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work
• Registered with the relevant professional body
• Ability to sustain and utilise specialist skills in a mental health setting

Training opportunities, exposure to a multidisciplinary team, supportive environment that fosters professional growth and personal support, opportunities for shadowing and development, chance to develop case management skills.