Senior Practitioner

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached detailed job description and person specification:

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements - 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• Professional qualification

Desirable criteria

• Training qualification
• Developed Assessment Skills

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working in liaison mental health service, in patients and or community mental health teams

Desirable criteria

• Prior incident investigation
• Prior complaint investigation experience
• Able to work independently

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent clinical assessment skills, including assessment and management of risk; in relation to Older People and Adults of Working Age
• Extensive knowledge of mental health problems and illnesses
• Excellent understanding of the interface between physical and mental health needs
• Knowledge of legislation, statutory and good practice guidance relating to mental health (including: NICE guidelines, the Mental Health Act, the Care Programme Approach and the Mental
• Ability to provide leadership and management skills to an integrated multidisciplinary team
• Ability to organise, prioritise and monitor own and others work load
• Supervisory skills including staff appraisal and
• Ability to contribute to staff training and development
• Ability to ensure effective budget management

Desirable criteria

• Investigation and root cause analysis skills

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 (PDF, 528.6KB)
• PS (PDF, 316.5KB)
• Important Candidate information (PDF, 178.0KB)
• Guidance on the pre-employment checks procedure (DOC, 35.5KB)
• DBS Policy Statement (PDF, 111.7KB)
• Foundation Trust Membership (PDF, 85.3KB)
• Salary On Appointment Guidelines (DOC, 65.5KB)
• Trust Values (PDF, 149.6KB)
• Privacy Notice (PDF, 368.4KB)