Senior Mental Health Practitioner

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Mental Health practitioners will provide assessment and interventions for people with significant mental health conditions such as dementias, depression, psychotic illness and personality disorders.
• Offer training, advice and guidance to colleagues on common mental health conditions.
• Participate in MDT meetings and ensure key information is recorded in shared care plans
• Work closely with the mental health integrated care team in order to provide an excellent mental health service.
• Clinical Assessment of mental health needs.
• Assessment and management of risk.
• Participating in a duty rota to offer on call support and advice to service users and their carers.
• Holistic care planning and co-producing crisis plans with service users, keeping service users and their families at the heart of the intervention.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant professional registered qualification (Registered mental health nurse, Social Worker or Occupational therapist)
• Training in supervision and appraisal

Desirable criteria

• Post qualifying training
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant relevant experience in working within a mental health service
• Experience of working with older people with mental health needs
• Experience of clinical and managerial supervision of junior staff

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with an older people's community mental health service.
• Have a lived experience of mental health challenges

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Excellent clinical skill in assessment and interventions for common mental health conditions
• Excellent communication skills and ability to summarise information and communicate with colleagues

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with nursing home and care providers
• Experience as safeguarding lead

Knowledge and understanding

Essential criteria

• Excellent understanding of statutory framework and care commissioning including: safeguarding, commissioning of care and Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity act

Physical

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel in the community
• Ability to sit for sustained periods of time

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• JD/PS (PDF, 360.6KB)
• CPFT Values (PDF, 114.7KB)
• CPFT Mindful Employers (PDF, 51.3KB)
• CPFT Accommodation (PDF, 296.6KB)