Senior mental health practitioner

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About the Trust

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

Job overview

To be a Mental Health Nurse or Mental Health Social Worker within the

Op Courage service to veterans and "service leavers" with a 6 month discharge date from Military, within the North West of England.

As part of the OpCourage North collaborative, assist in triage/ screening referrals for the collaborative, alongside specifically NW clients.

The post consists of hybrid working between office, home base, online/ virtual appointments, face to face and community settings. Responsibilities include: Participation in a Duty rota including liaising with referrers and other services, providing support to members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team in relation to risk management and safeguarding issues, Case management of veterans, Clinical interventions and signposting/ liaising with local services. The service delivery of clinical interventions occurs within a range of venues (including MoD venues) across the North West or home setting where clients' needs necessitate this.

Senior mental health practitoners would be expected to carry out initial face to face mental health, social care and risk assessments using the OpCourage standard assessment (including collecting outcome measures); case management of an assigned group of clients who require on-going monitoring of their mental health and risk management; emotional and practical support; and the delivery of evidence based interventions supported by the psychological team.

Main duties of the job
• To undertake screening and telephone assessment duties including liaison with referrers and other service providers to ensure clients are treated in the most appropriate service for their needs.
• To provide a thorough psycho-social assessment of the client (aged 18+), this will include a risk assessment, safety plan and care plan.
• To deliver individualised interventions to the client based on individual care plan
• Liaison with local services, MDT's and 3rd sector organisations.
• To manage own caseload by delivering brief interventions to the client, whilst maintaining and allocating new clients.
• Undertaking initial assessments as part of duty tasks and offering an additional face to face assessment slot weekly to support the brief interventions pathway.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To conduct a thorough psycho-social assessment of clients referred to the Op

Courage Service, to identify their needs and develop a collaborative care plan
• To provide case management and brief interventions for clients with moderate and complex mental health problems where required focus is generally around Military attributable needs, risk to self or others.
• Ensuring referrals to safeguarding children or safeguarding vulnerable adults are made where required in a timely manner.
• Have a good working knowledge of medication that is prescribed within Primary Care.
• To work jointly with colleagues within Op Courage MDT where required.
• To assess clients presenting multiple and complex issues and make decisions regarding the appropriate therapeutic intervention required to meet client's needs. This may include referral on to another service or modality of treatment.
• To assess risk of harm to self / others or property and take action as appropriate. This may involve breaching of client confidentiality in the interest of the clients or others safety e.g. Safeguarding Children / Adults, acts of terrorism etc. This will be assessed in line with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies
• To organise and manage a clinical caseload
• To maintain appropriate electronic records using PC-MIS web based clinical system in line with agreed protocols as directed by Line Manager
• To maintain effective communication and clear and concise documentation for individualised care as per service protocols and Trust policies
• To inform referrer of outcome of assessment and provide a summary of interventions delivered at discharge
• To ensure accurate completion of weekly diary on outlook to ensure following staff safe guidelines in line with trust procedures and policies.
• To co-facilitate therapeutic groups where appropriate and requested by Line Manager
• To act in accordance with requirements for practice- NMC Code of Conduct
• To actively participate in clinical and management supervision
• To provide a resource for discussion for other members of the MDT
• Facilitate communication with colleagues by active participation in team and clinical meetings as required by Team Manager.
• There is an expectation for you to deliver services across the North West. This may include home visits.

Person specification

Essential and desirable

Essential criteria

• RMN or MHSW
• short course and experience to post grad diploma level
• worked within an NHS community setting

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working with Military veterans
• Managed a complex community caseload
• Knowledge of Primary Care Mental Health and delivery of brief interventions
• Certificate / diploma in CBT / counselling or CPD in Primary Care Mental Health
• Experience of working with individuals who have drug and / or alcohol problems including models of care and the recovery and abstinence agenda.

A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.

Disclosure Barring Certificate check

All of our new starters, who are appointed to a post which requires a Disclosure Barring Certificate check (DBS), will be recharged for the full cost of the check (DBS checks for volunteers are free of charge).

An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month's salary.

If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.

We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).

Other important information

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
• Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
• This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
• You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview
• We will notify you by email if you have been shortlisted or not. Computer access is available at your local job centre or library. Please make sure you check your spam filter/junk folder. If any mail goes to your junk folder please mark it as safe
• If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post
• If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application
• We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
• Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
• We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our recruiting managers directly.

Vaccination

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• SMHP (PDF, 336.4KB)
• SMHP (PDF, 392.6KB)
• Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
• Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
• Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)