Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Honiton Adult Core Community Mental Health Team as a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner. We welcome applications from Mental Health Nurses, Learning Disability Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and Social Workers.

If you are a professional who enjoys being creative, diverse, and flexible in your practice, you will thrive in this role. The team offers a supportive environment where you can develop your skills, contribute your ideas, and be valued as an individual.

We are a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team working closely together to deliver a wide range of care through treatment pathways and evidence-based interventions, supporting people with complex mental health needs in the community. The role involves assessment, care planning, risk management, and therapeutic interventions, alongside contributing to service development.

You would be joining a team that you would be supporting in delivery of group psychological interventions, being part of the full pathway from triage to assessment and treatment. Using goal based outcomes to support a patient cantered approach in their recovery journey.

• Assess, care plan, manage risk, and deliver therapeutic interventions, contributing to service development.
• Support the delivery of group psychological interventions across the full pathway from triage to assessment and treatment.
• Use goal‑based outcomes to support a patient cantered approach in recovery journeys.
• Encourage development ideas and consider new initiatives that may bring positive improvements to the service.
• Receive support for training that can support career development and professional skills, competencies and interests.

• Applications are welcomed from Mental Health Nurses, Learning Disability Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and Social Workers.
• We recruit based on qualifications & experience and on behaviours that underpin our Trust’s core 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.

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.