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

• Assessment of mental health needs
• Delivery of mental health interventions for both service users and their carers in accordance with memory assessment service care pathway.
• To provide post diagnostic support including Advanced Care Planning for service users and carers in line with NICE recommendations and guidelines.
• To supervise and assess the use of prescribed medications according to professional guidelines and policies. To be familiar with therapeutic and side effects of prescribed medication and observe statutory and local policies in the prescribing, storage and administration of medications.
• To practice as an independent / supplementary non-medical prescriber (with appropriate qualification) providing specialist advice in non-medical prescribing and medicine management policy in line with Trust's nonmedical prescribing policy.
• To contribute to the leadership within memory assessment services and service development.
• To offer guidance and support to colleagues within OPAC services including community Older People's Mental Health Teams and Stepped care therapy.
• To contribute to local multi-disciplinary team reviews and care planning for identified service users
• To work closely with colleagues in the mental health integrated care team and the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team to ensure smooth transitions of care and joint work.
• To contribute to the wider functioning of the Older People's services in the locality by participating in the Duty rota system.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Mental Health nurse with NMC registration or Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration
• Training in supervision and appraisal

Desirable criteria

• Post qualifying training in relevant field
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant 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
• Experience of working with people with a diagnosis of dementia.

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 mental health conditions including dementia.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to summarise information and communicate with colleagues
• Ability to communicate effectively with people in distress or with communication difficulties.

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 independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

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 visi