Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner (RMN/OT/SW)
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About the Role
The Burnley Community Mental Health Team are a friendly, dedicated, supportive and flexible team, who strive to provide the best care possible with the resources we have in our area.
We are seeking to appoint a Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner with a passion for community mental health, who will help us deliver this to our Service Users.
Responsibilities
- Registered mental health practitioner to be part of our team.
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience in assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing care needs.
- Experience of risk assessment and management.
- Ability to explore issues relating to the impact of health and social needs on mental health and well-being.
- Significant post-qualification experience in clinical work with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems.
Key Tasks
- Undertake mental health assessments including risk assessments within a multi-disciplinary assessment team.
- Work closely with the Consultant Psychiatrist, ensuring a multidisciplinary team approach.
- Proficient in referring to other clinicians within the service or referring to other services/agencies where necessary.
- Provide a fast, responsive service to assess individuals needs for access into mental health services.
- Provide a communication structure between GPs, IAPT and secondary MH services in LCFT, non-statutory service to ensure the highest possible standards of patient care.
- Provide mentoring and support for others.
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About Us
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of:
- Age
- Disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services)
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Religion, belief, or sexual orientation
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
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Flexible Working
LSCFT support 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 and flexi-time.
Wellbeing
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Laura Dole
- Job title: Team Leader
- Email address: Laura.Dole@lscft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01282 657387
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