Job summary
A rewarding opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Practitioner within the Intensive Life Skills Pathway Team based in Shropshire to help those in need with your caring and compassionate support.
We are a specialist community team providing assessment, formulation and intervention using a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) framework. Our focus is on treatment, recovery and enablement to increase peoples emotional social and practical functioning, through a combination of group skill based learning and individual therapy.
We are looking for any current Nurses, Social Workers & Occupational Therapists who are looking to be part of this exciting role where you will have the opportunity to access further development and training pathways within this role.
Main duties of the job
- As part of this role, you will be working in a specialist adult community mental health pathway and responsible for an identified caseload of service users.
- You will be responsible for undertaking clinical assessments in accordance with the clinical pathway, to establish the person's needs, goals, risks, and strengths, to inform and generate a formulation-based care plan agreed with all involved.
- Responsibility for delivering evidenced based therapeutic interventions on a 1:1 and group basis, in accordance with an agreed care plan.
You will also have the opportunity to assist with consultations, support and clinical supervision to other health professionals working within the Community Mental Health Service and other areas of the Trust, where identified as appropriate.
The ideal candidate:
- A relevant nursing qualification or other registration - RMN / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Therapist.
- Post qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses or training relevant to working with people with complex mental health needs, related to emotional instability.
- Ability to deliver group and individual interventions.
- Ability to work with service users expressing high levels of distress.
- A positive attitude and a caring and compassionate approach.
- Good communication skills
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Before applying for this exciting and rewarding job opportunity, we encourage you to view the attached job description and person specification.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name Stephanie Leach
Job title Pathway Manager
Email address stephanie.leach@mpft.nhs.uk
Telephone number 0300 303 1601
Job description
Job responsibilities
Before applying for this exciting and rewarding job opportunity, we encourage you to view the attached job description and person specification.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name Stephanie Leach
Job title Pathway Manager
Email address stephanie.leach@mpft.nhs.uk
Telephone number 0300 303 1601
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oA relevant nursing qualification or other registration - RMN / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Therapist.
Desirable
- oPsychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, MBT, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT, SCM.
- oPost qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses or training relevant to working with people with complex mental health needs related to emotional instability.
- oLeadership qualification
- oRegistered student assessor
- oQualification in providing supervision
Experience
Essential
- oPost registration experience with working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and who have complex emotional mental health needs
- Experience working in a community mental health setting
- Experience of assessing, planning and working alongside people with mental health problems in a community setting.
- Experience delivering groups
- Experience of providing supervision
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oA relevant nursing qualification or other registration - RMN / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Therapist.
Desirable
- oPsychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, MBT, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT, SCM.
- oPost qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses or training relevant to working with people with complex mental health needs related to emotional instability.
- oLeadership qualification
- oRegistered student assessor
- oQualification in providing supervision
Experience
Essential
- oPost registration experience with working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and who have complex emotional mental health needs
- Experience working in a community mental health setting
- Experience of assessing, planning and working alongside people with mental health problems in a community setting.
- Experience delivering groups
- Experience of providing supervision
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Fuller House, Telford and Severnfields Health Village, Shrewsbury
Telford and Shrewsbury
TF3 4NF
Employer's website
https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)