Job summary
Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner
Grade: Band 6
Trust: South London &
Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Jeanette Wallace
House, 1 Edridge Road, Croydon, CR01FE
Hours: Monday Friday
9.00am 17.00pm
Main duties of the job
The South London & Maudsley NHS Trust provides a full range of
mental health services to people of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth, and Croydon
as well as substance misuse services for people in Bexley, Greenwich, and
Bromley. The Trust provides specialist services to people from across the UK.
It has approximately 4,800 staff and a budget of £300 million. The trust
also works closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and
Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health
Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in
the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness.
Their scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and
treatment, science and research, and training.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be responsible for
the assessment of newly referred adults who may be undergoing their first
psychotic episode. To work with diagnostic uncertainty, providing ongoing
comprehensive assessment and outcome monitoring of all caseload service users.
To assertively
outreach difficult to engage service users. To meet service users regularly, to
respond flexibly when agreeing venue, such as home visit, team base, education,
work or recreational establishment to assist with engagement & encourage
participation in treatment delivery as well as facilitating independence
To involve families
and carers in treatment plans where appropriate. This may require direct Family
Intervention work. Ensuring services are provided within guidance of the
Children & Families' Act and Care Act.
To work in
co-operation with members of the multi-disciplinary team and all other relevant
health and social care professionals to assess, develop, implement and evaluate
high quality packages of client-centred care.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience with working with people of the age group of 18-65
- MDT experience
- Knowledge of trust recording system (ePJS) and knowledge of local services beneficial
Qualifications
Essential
- Correct registration body
Desirable
- In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
- Relevant Qualifications
- Registration with the relevant Registration Body
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Professionals Limited
Address
Community Health Centre
2 Edridge Road
Croydon
CR01FE