Mental Health Liaison Practitioner - RMN, SW or OT Developmental Post

NHS; Worthing; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job description

Mental Health Liaison Practitioner - RMN, SW or OT Developmental Post

Qualified or Newly Qualified Practitioners Only - Must be registered with HCPC, Social Work England or NMC to apply. This post is open to Social Workers undertaking the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE).

An excellent development opportunity has arisen for a Community Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist to join our Assessment and Treatment Service in Worthing. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and provide specialist assessment, treatment, and care to a caseload of people with a range of mental health problems from the local community. You must be enthusiastic, self-motivated, flexible, and able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and demonstrate a commitment to the recovery model.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment; the people that we employ are at the heart of making this vision a reality. If you've got the passion, the belief, the drive, and the talent to help us achieve our vision, then we would like to hear from you.

Main Duties of the Job

The Worthing Assessment and Treatment Service is a lively community mental health team supporting people living with severe and enduring mental health problems. You will hold a caseload of people who have mixed diagnoses of severe and enduring mental illness, and you will offer interventions within a recovery-focused model of care designed to enable and encourage service users to develop positive coping strategies to maximize their independence and potential. You will work in partnership with a diverse team of clinicians and support staff including psychologists, psychiatrists, support workers, and our third sector partners.

We are passionate about involving people, family, and friends in care, and we welcome candidates with experience of co-production. We are dedicated to improving services and delivering high-quality care.

About Us

Over the next five years, community mental health services are going to be undergoing a real transformation, and you could be part of these exciting developments. Our community mental health teams will become part of a much more integrated network of services, and our mental health clinicians will be central in driving the changes, in close partnership with our primary and third sector colleagues.

We recognize that working in mental health can be stressful, so we prioritize staff welfare, providing regular supervision, reflective practice, mentoring, and any other support that our clinicians need to ensure their well-being.

If you are a band 5 or newly qualified nurse, OT, or Social Worker with previous mental health experience who has a desire to develop into a community mental health practitioner role, then please contact us as we would be delighted to talk with you about any development opportunities.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 5-6 Nurses & Practitioners (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, part-time hours, flexible start/finish times, or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Job Responsibilities

The role is all about improving outcomes for this patient group, working creatively with patients and their carers to co-create care and risk plans that will help them achieve their goals and live as independently as possible. This key to success is often about building effective partnerships with GPs, Crisis services, housing, and other third sector providers, or we might decide to refer patients onto one of our more specialist services, such as our Early intervention in Psychosis or Eating disorders.

Working in our team includes:

• Working autonomously as a Lead Practitioner to a defined caseload of clients. This will include offering specific interventions to people diagnosed with mood/anxiety disorders, psychosis, or complex emotional difficulties.
• You will complete initial assessments and work closely with our referrals coordinators.

What you will receive from us:

• Regular Line Management and Professional supervision.
• Access to a wide range of Training and CPD opportunities including;
• The opportunity to participate in a range QI work and service innovations.

Effective communication and leadership skills, a sound clinical knowledge base, and a commitment to caring for patients in the community must be demonstrated. You must be enthusiastic, self-motivated, flexible, and able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Professional with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role.
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Knowledge/Experience

• Significant post-qualifying experience in the relevant care group.
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group.
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems.
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals.
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments.
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies.
• Understanding of clinical governance.
• Experience of working in a mental health setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum / pro rata for part time.