Mental Health Practitioner- Homeless Mental Health Team
| Posting date: | 01 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum (pro-rata for part time) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG17 4JT |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6247409/186-519-24-MH |
Summary
A Vacancy at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period.
This is an exciting opportunity for experienced Mental Health Practitioner to work within the County Homeless Mental Health Team. The role involves outreach work to reach those experiencing homelessness to provide mental health support. It is a great time to be joining the team as we are starting a Health Innovation project and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to service development. The team will be working closely with the Alcohol Long term conditions team, Drug and Alcohol liaison teams and Physical health care team to provide wrap around care to people experiencing homelessness in the county.
We will provide the successful candidatesthe opportunityto develop skills needed to work within a community setting. The training offers will include specific skills required for working in the homeless sector for example trauma informed care, substance use and housing knowledge. We are looking for someone experienced in mental health and keen to learn, with an interest in working with people with Severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD).
We do not have a set base so the location in the county this can be negotiated with the successful candidate.
The post holder will be expected to hold a caseload and work with service users and their families to support personalised care plans and provide specialist interventions. You will promote the recovery of patients and through working with partner agencies and primary care to ensure access to mental health treatment.
You will complete longitudinal assessments and apply an assertive outreach approach where engagement will be key. You will be in the community working with street outreach to reach those rough sleeping and in temporary hostels. You will provide mental health interventions and work in a trauma informed way to improve the mental health outcomes for people with complex needs. You will act as a trusted assessor for those requiring longer term secondary mental health services enabling access to the LMHTs .
We are seeking enthusiastic team players, to work within a dynamic multi-disciplinary health team, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability and experience to manage complex cases in partnership with other agencies. A keen interest in working in the homeless sector is required however we understand that not everyone will have worked in this sector so practice experience is not essential.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Day to Day Duties:
• Caseload management for service users in the community experiencing homelessness
• Triage of referrals, provision of initial assessments and one-to-one interventions with service users.
• To undertake and record comprehensive need/risk assessments, devise and implement treatment plans for service users.
• To demonstrate the application of specialist skills and knowledge in order to maintain professional competence and fitness to practice as a mental health practitioner.
• To establish and maintain robust communication networks with clients, carers, team members, other health care and social care workers within urgent care and the community
• To use interpersonal skills in diffusing potentially emotive situations while undertaking assessments and pathway planning within acute settings.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
This advert closes on Wednesday 15 May 2024
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period.
This is an exciting opportunity for experienced Mental Health Practitioner to work within the County Homeless Mental Health Team. The role involves outreach work to reach those experiencing homelessness to provide mental health support. It is a great time to be joining the team as we are starting a Health Innovation project and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to service development. The team will be working closely with the Alcohol Long term conditions team, Drug and Alcohol liaison teams and Physical health care team to provide wrap around care to people experiencing homelessness in the county.
We will provide the successful candidatesthe opportunityto develop skills needed to work within a community setting. The training offers will include specific skills required for working in the homeless sector for example trauma informed care, substance use and housing knowledge. We are looking for someone experienced in mental health and keen to learn, with an interest in working with people with Severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD).
We do not have a set base so the location in the county this can be negotiated with the successful candidate.
The post holder will be expected to hold a caseload and work with service users and their families to support personalised care plans and provide specialist interventions. You will promote the recovery of patients and through working with partner agencies and primary care to ensure access to mental health treatment.
You will complete longitudinal assessments and apply an assertive outreach approach where engagement will be key. You will be in the community working with street outreach to reach those rough sleeping and in temporary hostels. You will provide mental health interventions and work in a trauma informed way to improve the mental health outcomes for people with complex needs. You will act as a trusted assessor for those requiring longer term secondary mental health services enabling access to the LMHTs .
We are seeking enthusiastic team players, to work within a dynamic multi-disciplinary health team, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability and experience to manage complex cases in partnership with other agencies. A keen interest in working in the homeless sector is required however we understand that not everyone will have worked in this sector so practice experience is not essential.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Day to Day Duties:
• Caseload management for service users in the community experiencing homelessness
• Triage of referrals, provision of initial assessments and one-to-one interventions with service users.
• To undertake and record comprehensive need/risk assessments, devise and implement treatment plans for service users.
• To demonstrate the application of specialist skills and knowledge in order to maintain professional competence and fitness to practice as a mental health practitioner.
• To establish and maintain robust communication networks with clients, carers, team members, other health care and social care workers within urgent care and the community
• To use interpersonal skills in diffusing potentially emotive situations while undertaking assessments and pathway planning within acute settings.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
This advert closes on Wednesday 15 May 2024
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