Sanctuary Personnel, a leading recruitment company to the private and public sector has a locum vacancy for a Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner to work based in Stafford, within the Access (All Age) Team.
The pay rate for this full-time role is £25.23 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an initial 3-month contract.
Shift Pattern:
- Core business hours, 08:00 am – 20:00 pm, Monday - Friday not including Bank Holidays
Duties:
- Assessing mental health referrals into Secondary MH Care
- Delivering safe and effective services
- Developing clear outcomes following triage and undertaking risk screening to agree and determine level of service to be offered to service user and carer enquiries
- Provide effective advice and guidance to meet needs of service user and or professional with follow up calls, in accordance with Recovery Wellbeing principles
- Reporting to Shift Co and other team members, other clinical teams e.g. Across all clinical pathways, and other Trust Support service personnel
- Have a crucial role in processing, assessing and determine the mental health and social care needs of a person referred to determine their ongoing needs and facilitation of service provision
- Participate in the delivery of the agreed aims and objectives of the service and identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved
- Assist in the delivery of a high standard of Mental Health care to service users referred to the service
- Implement agreed systems for the monitoring of effectiveness of care
- Participate in the education and management of junior staff
- Maintain an up to date awareness of the infection control precautions relevant to your area of work and implement these in practice
- Hand hygiene, the use of personal protective equipment, the use and disposal of sharps and communicating the importance to patients, prison staff and other health care staff you are working with
- Participate, promote and support others in undertaking learning and development activities
- Abide by the safety practices and codes authorised by the trust
- Have an equal responsibility with management, for maintaining safe working practices for the health and safety of yourself and others
- Have a responsibility to abide by the principles outlined within this job description, you are afforded Trainee status in recognition of the need to work towards attainment of the competences assigned to the role
- Have a responsibility to promote and abide by the rights and responsibilities outlined in the NHS Constitution
- Adhere to Organisational/National/Regulatory Codes of Practice relevant to the role you are employed to undertake
- Limit the scope of your practice to your acquired level of competence and capability
- Behaving in a way that is consistent with the aims of our Equality and Diversity Policy
- Not discriminating unfairly in any area of your work and not harassing or otherwise intimidating other members of staff
- Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults
- Act in such a way that at all times safeguards (and promotes) the health and well being of children and vulnerable adults
- Working together and leading by example
Requirements of the Community Mental Health Practitioner:
- Valid registration
- Be a Registered Mental Health Professional e.g Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker
- Non medical prescribing qualification AMHP
- Excellent risk assessment and management skills in relation to and positive risk taking and decision making to enable safe and effective responses for an identified client group, largely by telephone/assessment
- A proactive approach to ensuring you meet the statutory/mandatory training requirements of your role, and engaging in PDC appraisal processes in line with Trust policy and guidance
- Familiarisation with and adherence to Trust Safeguarding policies is an essential requirement of all employees as is participation in related mandatory/statutory training
- Ability to use computers and other information technology as required
- Post-registration experience
- Previous experience of working in the community
- Experience of previous working as a Community Mental Health Practitioner or similar
- Knowledge of current initiatives impacting on the service
- Psychological therapy training/Brief interventions
- A working knowledge of risk assessment and management related to the area
- A good knowledge of local resources and access to local information
- Good knowledge and understanding of Clinical Pathways
- Can demonstrate the skills required to work within and across teams and professional boundaries
- Be able to lead on assessments by telephone confidently and competently
- Knowledge of the wide range of statutory independent and third sector service provision for C & YP with mental ill health
- Excellent communication skills both verbally and written
- Excellent IT skills
- Knowledge of Children’s Act, Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and DOLS
- The ability to prioritise own workload and the workload of others and meet set deadlines
- Ability to travel to locations if required
- Flexible approach to duties
- Effective time management
- Positive personal resilience
- Ability to demonstrate the positive application of our behaviours
- Respectful
- Honest and Trustworthy
- Caring and Compassionate
- Taking the time to talk and listen
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Daily payroll
- Access to exclusive roles that aren't available with other agencies
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive mental health nursing knowledge
- Refer a Friend bonus - get £250 for each candidate you refer who we successfully place
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance support
- In house payroll system
- Revalidation
- Industry leading shift booking system
- Nationwide coverage including the Channel islands
Contact:
This Community Mental Health Practitioner job is advertised by Paige Westbrook; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
