Older Adult Mental Health Practitioner ( RMN or OT )

Job summary

This is an exciting time to join Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as a Nurse or Occupational Therapist!

Bolsover & Clay Cross Older Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) & the Bolsover & Clay Cross Living Well Team are looking for an enthusiastic Band 6 Older Adult Specialist to join their friendly and supportive team based in The Old Vicarage, Bolsover. .

You need to have experience of working with older adults with mental health conditions, in a community setting.

This newly-developed role, hosted by the Older Adults CMHT will involve supporting introductions into the Bolsover & Clay Cross Living Well Team, identifying the needs of older adults with mental health conditions who live within the local community, designing & implementing person-centred support to enable people to live their best life.

This will include working with colleagues across the local community to ensure that we provide the right service at the right time by the right person.

The role is supported by Bolsover & Clay Cross Older Adults CMHT, but includes working into the Adult Living Well Team.

Bolsover & Clay Cross Living Well is a locality-based, multi-agency team, offering seamless support from agencies by placing the person at the centre of their support needs.

A core aspect of the framework is supporting those who may not have been eligible to access secondary mental health support previously.

You will need to have the ability to travel across the geographical area.

Main duties of the job

A key feature of the role is to support developing the Living Well offer for Older Adults to ensure this population can take advantage of this approach.

As outlined in the Community Mental Health Framework the offer is for people experiencing a functional mental health presentation.

It is essential to have knowledge of organic conditions, ensuring people receive support from appropriate services.

A key element of the role is to identify how working into the Bolsover & Clay Cross Living Well Team as an older adult practitioner can be most effective and how that team can be an extension of the Older Adult CMHT. This includes developing links with community organisations.

The role involves working within the Living Well approach, values and practice.

You will support individuals to improve their mental health by helping develop well-being skills, build resilience and utilise community resources.

You will use skills from your professional background.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

Trust values of People First, Honesty, Respect and Do your Best are embedded throughout the organisation.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" & "felt positive and proud about working for the Trust."

We have a commitment to promoting staff health & wellbeing, with a programme of wellbeing events both as a profession & in the wider organisation.

Our staff survey in 2020 showed 73% of our staff would recommend working for Derbyshire Healthcare.

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal
• Access to profession specific & other training, both internal & external
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity & adoption benefits
• Health service discounts & online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network, Women's Network & Christian Network
• Active Staff Forum that represents staff views
• Health & wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning & development opportunities across the profession and the wider organisation
• Involvement in Trust-wide, local & national Nursing/AHP activities