Community Mental health Recovery Practitioner

Community Mental Health Recovery Practitioner Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the New Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT) for the Black Country. This role includes providing wrap-around care in conjunction with CMHTs and care co-ordination of service users from a capped team caseload that are either in out-of-area rehabilitation placements or living within the Black Country. These individuals will be open to secondary care services with a diagnosed Severe Mental Illness and requiring community rehabilitation support.

The post holder will also be responsible for supporting discharge from hospital, providing recovery-focused interventions and assessing the complex mental health needs of individuals, ensuring that the placement and/or package of care is appropriate to their needs and step down to locality-based services. The post holder will work intensely with the client for up to 18 months, focusing on helping to build resilience, improve their wellbeing, and tailoring interventions to meet their individual, cultural, and social needs to help them achieve their optimum level of functioning and a fulfilling life.

Main Duties of the Job

The post holder will work as part of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT) MDT, which includes a Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologist, and Occupational Therapists. The post holder will liaise with external agencies to achieve personalised recovery outcomes for patients within the service.

The post holder will be able to operate flexibly from home and/or a community-based facility and will provide service from the work base, virtually, or within the service user's place of residence. Some travel will be required to visit out-of-area placements to review care.

The service will operate Monday to Friday, 9-5 hours, but is expected to advise service users and carers of access to services outside of these hours and liaise and refer on to other mental health care providers in cases where support outside of these hours is required.

About Us

At Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, we're building a high-calibre, diverse, and inclusive mental health workforce. One that will give talented professionals like you the opportunity to shape an outstanding service that will transform community mental healthcare and deliver happier and healthier lives all across our communities.

The Trust is rated 'Good' from CQC (Care Quality Commission) and will become the lead provider for mental health services across The Black Country. We have recently invested in newly created clinical divisions and are currently developing new models of integrated primary and secondary care for adults and older adults, as well launching a far-reaching inpatient strategy, working to eradicate dormitories and building new facilities.

This ambitious model is multi-agency and multi-disciplinary, opening the door for you to work in a collaborative and flexible way with partners, service users, carers, and their families.

Job Responsibilities

1. Provide care co-ordination, wrap-around input to CMHT, assessment, and recovery-focused interventions to service users within a specified time frame across the Black Country.
2. Liaison with external services to facilitate discharge from out-of-area placements, co-ordinate 117 packages of care, and support the referral process.
3. Contributing to the development and implementation of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (HOPE team).
4. Working within an MDT to work holistically and improve our patients' recovery journey.

For further details please see Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Experience

• Community experience.
• Experience of working with individuals with severe mental illness.
• Knowledge of person-centred, recovery-focused, and trauma-informed care.
• Experience of working within a Recovery Model.

Knowledge

• Multi-professional teamwork.
• Mental Health Legislation and policy including CPA and 117.
• Commitment/genuine interest in client group within area of specialty.
• Ability to prioritise workload.

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.