Senior Home Treatment Mental Health Practitioner RMN/SW/OT

Fylde Coast Home Based Treatment Team
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner

Job Description
Senior Home Treatment Mental Health Practitioner (37.5 Hours per week)

Grade: Agenda for Change Band 6

Location: Based at Fylde Coast HBTT, The Gateway Blackpool Football Stadium

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior mental health practitioner to join the Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team. The Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team provides 24-hour support to service users who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute inpatient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide high-quality care in a community setting.

Main Duties of the Job
The Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team is always striving towards excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are achieved. Currently, the team is undergoing an exciting period of change that will see the working together to develop a model of care that ensures effective service delivery in partnership with local services and across the Urgent Care Pathway.

The successful applicant will be dynamic and forward-thinking. They will be passionate about working with service users with acute mental health concerns and providing a recovery-focused approach. The successful applicant will have the ability to work as part of a team and in partnership with local services.

There will be an expectation that the successful applicant will also undertake night duty and shift work as part of their role. Successful applicants will be provided with a full induction and appraisal to formulate a Personal Development Plan and to identify training and development needs.

About Us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care. The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria, and Sefton area. Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview. For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Job Responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification
Education
Essential

• Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN/Dip SW/OT)

Desirable

• ENB 998 or equivalent teaching/supervision qualification

Knowledge
Essential

• In-depth knowledge of mental health problems
• In-depth knowledge of issues that impact upon people with mental health problems
• Detailed knowledge of the impact of risk and protective factors that affect people with mental health problems

Experience
Essential

• Experience of post qualification clinical work with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems
• Experience of delivering evidence based interventions in a time-limited framework
• Evidence of assessment across a broad range of mental health problems

Employer Details
Employer Name: Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team Blackpool, Blackpool, FY1 6JX

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