Mental Health Practitioner (RMN/OT/Social Worker)

Main area: Mental Health - Community
Grade: Band 5
Contract: 10 months (Fixed Term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 351-PEN969-EB

Site: Daisyfield Mill Town Blackburn
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/03/:59

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.

Job overview

Fixed Term - 10 months - Full Time (37.50 hours)

An opportunity has arisen for a Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join the Blackburn & Darwen Community Mental Health Team.

Blackburn with Darwen Community Mental Health Team are seeking to appoint a Band 5 Community Mental Health Practitioner. As a Band 5 MH practitioner within the team you will be regularly supported and supervised by a nominated Band 6 Nurse and the clinical lead/team leader, you will be encouraged to take personal responsibility for clinical supervision and your continued professional development plan.

You must be a motivated individual, committed to promoting recovery and well-being for our service users as part of our multi-disciplinary team. Excellent communication skills are essential for the role.

This post provides the opportunity for a forward thinking individual to develop and implement safe, sound and supportive services that embrace the provision of holistic care.

Main duties of the job

With a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary working and the principles laid out in the Recovery Model, you will need to be an innovative thinker and be able to form effective relationships.

You must be a registered mental health practitioner, looking to develop your clinical skills and knowledge.

You need to be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and have experience of planning, implementing and reviewing care needs.

You will also need to have a working knowledge of the care programme approach (CPA), Dialog+, risk assessment and management, and the ability to explore issues relating to the impact of health and social needs on mental health and well-being.

Person specification

• Registered Mental Health nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with ongoing Professional Registration
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development

• Understanding of health and safety policies and procedures
• Knowledge and practice of Mental Health Act 1983
• Can provide evidence of recent professional development

• Willingness to participate in mentor and preceptorship process in respect of own practice.
• Able to demonstrate and understand the concept of community care and the need to develop good networks

Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.

You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups.