South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Practitioner

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Job Opportunity: Senior Practitioner in Croydon Assessment and Liaison Team
This post is open to experienced RMNs, mental health social workers, or OTs who wish to broaden their work experience and further develop their skills and knowledge in the Croydon Assessment and Liaison team.
Candidates to please be aware that Croydon is currently undergoing a transition into Neighbourhood Centres. As part of this transformation, the successful candidates will be subject to role reallocation to different teams as a result.
About the Role
We provide a service for people aged 18-65, who live in the London Borough of Croydon. We provide advice on the best treatment and care options available to people who have moderate to severe mental illness, such as anxiety, depression, or personality disorder.
We work with a team of health and social care professionals, including nurses, doctors, and social workers. We also work closely with the patients, their carers, and GPs.
To work as a highly experienced autonomous practitioner carrying out specialist needs assessments, care planning, implementation, and evaluation to a significant number of adults referred to the Croydon Assessment and Liaison Team. The Senior Practitioner will assess and formulate a care plan and offer brief interventions (up to 12 weeks) with mental health service users, signpost to other services, and discharge to primary care where appropriate/possible and supervise community practitioners. Communications and Working Relationships: Multidisciplinary Team, other borough teams, external agencies, and primary care - daily.
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The senior practitioner will support the team leader to ensure service delivery (i.e., meeting target measures, managing staff absences, supervision of junior staff) and provide management cover in the team leader's absence.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen, and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
Benefits
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- Generous pay, pensions, and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions, and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work-life balance, flexible working, and support a range of flexible options.
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programmes.
- Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites.
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.


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Other Benefits Include
- Croydon Carers parking permit
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Patricia Phillip
- Job title: Clinical Service Lead
- Email address: patricia.phillip@slam.nhs.uk
If you would like further information about the vacancy or team, please contact the hiring manager via e-mail patricia.phillip@slam.nhs.uk
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