Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Community Mental Health Practitioner
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An Exciting Opportunity in Rochdale West Community Mental Health Team
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Rochdale West Community Mental Health Team for a Community Psychiatric Nurse / Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join us in working to provide mental health care to people of working age who have moderate to severe mental health problems across a wide range of presenting conditions.
There is a strong commitment to promoting your professional development. You will be supported by clinical and management supervision and will be given the opportunity to develop and enhance clinical skills, interventions, and case management through a personal development and training plan.
Key Responsibilities of the Post
As a Community Mental Health Practitioner you will be responsible for health care of patients under secondary care.
Key Requirements of the Person Specification:
- Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
- Social Worker
- Occupational therapist with care coordination experience
- Experience in a relevant area of mental health practice.
- Current driving license or supported driver with use of vehicle
Key Responsibilities:
- To act as a Community Mental Health Practitioner for a defined caseload working with evidence-based interventions
- Assess and review needs
- Formulate care plans
- Implementation of care plans
- Assessment, monitoring, and management of risk
- Monitor, review, and evaluate care
- Liaise with all agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril / administration of depot injections either in the client's home or in the clinics if Nurse qualified where required.
- Supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s and peers as appropriate
- To maintain accurate, up-to-date electronic records
- To participate in the CMHT’s duty system on a Rota basis. Be able to offer a rapid response to service users’ immediate needs, including those arising from crisis.
- To work in a therapeutically informed way within the multi-disciplinary team to address the needs of service users with complex emotional disorders.
- To maintain a persistent approach to engagement where there are complex mental health difficulties.
- To prioritise and work flexibly with MDT in order to respond to rapidly changing clinical needs.
- To promote the physical health and wellbeing
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We are proud to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, and Tameside and Glossop.
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Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure, and travel
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Kat Lohan
Job title: Team Manager
Email address: klohan@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01706 676600
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