Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF&Barnstaple, EX31 4JB
Salary: £35392.00 to £42618.00
Date posted: 22nd April 2024
Closing date: 12th May 2024
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to work in our Home Treatment Team based at North Devon District Hospital. The successful candidate will be working on a shift based rota (including weekends). You will play an essential role in providing 24/7 (Excluding night Shifts) specialist mental health services to those who need them.
Our Home Treatment Team (HTT) is a community based service who support people experiencing severe mental health issues and who require 'crisis' support. The aim of the team is to help people to manage and resolve their crisis through assessment and treatment in their home environment. Our Home Treatment Team also supports individuals who are being discharged from hospital, enabling them to continue their recovery at home.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will become part of a multi disciplinary team carrying out Home Treatment Team assessments, creating collaborative care plans that includes families/carers, and signposting to appropriate agencies.
The role includes assessing the suitability of home treatment for individuals presenting with acute mental illness or severe distress, which can be safely managed in the person's home.
It will be your job to devise interventions that will help people to recover. You will play a key role in a dynamic multidisciplinary team, working with multiple agencies on a daily basis.
You will be confident working without direct supervision with the knowledge to devise individual recovery plans for the people you see. Its important you can communicate effectively, not only with your colleagues but the people you care for and their families and carers. You will be at the center of their care.
The post holder is required to hold a UK driving license to carry out home visits in pool cars.To apply you need to be an experienced mental health professional with a professional mental health qualification.
We will help you grow in the role, and can provide a range of training opportunities, that can help you develop the skills you need to thrive in the job.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Contact information:
Team Manager
Sophie Donovan
01271443200
