Community Mental Health Practitioner
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation TrustOur Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
• Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
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Job overview
A rare and exciting opportunity has become available for a Registered Mental Health Nurse/Social Worker/Occupational Therapist Band 5 Practitioner to join Pennine Lancashire Specialist Perinatal Community Mental Health Team. The Specialist Perinatal Community Mental Health Team (SPCMHT) is an exciting new service development for the whole of Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The SPCMHT aspires to provide an excellent comprehensive Perinatal Mental Health Service for the women of Lancashire and South Cumbria. We deliver a sustainable and resilient solution for women suffering from a mental illness in the perinatal period by focusing on improving outcomes for them, their infant and their families. We do this by effective multidisciplinary integrated team working and ensuring effective prevention that responds to local need by:
- Intervening earlier to at preconception, during pregnancy and up to 1 year following delivery
- On-going training of professionals from multiple disciplines
- Improving pathways and processes for mothers, their families and professionals
- Delivering a multi-disciplinary specialist perinatal mental health service to woman who present with severe/complex mental health needs, in accordance with CR197 staffing recommendations and delivery of NICE recommended intervention
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The post holder will carry a caseload and work with senior clinicians, have responsibility for the delivery of high quality care that will include delivering talk therapies.
We would welcome applications from both male and female applicants and there is no requirement to have previous perinatal mental health experience as all training requirements will be available as part of your induction and within your Personal Development Planning. The service operates Monday to Friday 9-5 although flexible working requests will be considered.
Working for our organisation
- To undertake specialist health, occupational and social care needs assessments, which requires at least one hour concentration with a service user on a regular basis and at least one hour to write up the assessment. This includes risk assessments in relation to the service user, family members and environmental risks.
- To formulate specialist multi-disciplinary treatment and intervention plans for service users in response to identified needs, under the auspices of the care programme approach where appropriate. This is often of a complex nature however the complexity will be taken into account by the manager allocating the case and will be in line with the band 5 grading. The task will also require creation of crisis and contingency plans and frequent adjustments to those plans.
- Act as a key member of the integrated multi-disciplinary community mental health team.
- Actively manage own caseload seeking supervision and guidance from band 6 staff and managers where required.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Engage in the screening and assessment of service users as part of the duty team. This role includes liaison with multi-agencies, screen referrals on a daily basis which takes judgement, make urgent assessments regarding risks of aggression, self-harm and suicide, complex assessments requiring judgements and concentration. This role is broadly described as gatekeeping and is a functional part of the service and duty activity. Some assessments may be undertaken on behalf of the medical staff with a view to determining if medical intervention is required. Seek guidance in the prioritisation of referrals where required.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
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Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document.
Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
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LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.