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Job summary

Main area
Adult Mental Health Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
346-NYA-102-24
Employer
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
North Moor House
Town
Northallerton
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 pro rata, per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust logo

Senior Community Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 6

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job overview

We are excited to offer the opportunity for an experienced mental health nurse, social worker or occupational therapist to join the East Integrated Community Mental Health Team, as a Senior Practitioner. We are based in Northallerton.  

Nursing applicants should already hold NMC registration and have successfully completed their preceptorship programme. Please note: Newly qualified Nurses or those due to qualify will be recruited via a separate process.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work as part of committed and experienced multi-disciplinary team completing assessments and  delivering interventions to people with complex mental health problems in the community.  You will act as lead professional or care coordinator for a defined caseload, work as the duty responder on a rota basis, supervise and mentor junior members of staff and students.  You will have the opportunity to work with people with a variety of mental health problems including psychosis, mood disorders, eating disorders and complex trauma.

Working for our organisation

The successful applicant will be offered regular caseload, clinical and management supervision as well as annual appraisals and opportunities for continuing professional development. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Additional contact details: 

Team manager - Amy Colling 01609 751850 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • Teaching or mentorship qualification or willingness to work towards.
  • Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
  • For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
  • Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
Desirable criteria
  • Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
  • Leadership or management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment
  • Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
  • Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate
  • Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement
  • Working in a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Quality improvement activities.
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership or management experience
  • Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
  • Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
  • Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
  • Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
  • Clinical Governance and its application in practice
  • Research and development methodology
  • Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
Desirable criteria
  • The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS)

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team
  • Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
  • Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional/care coordinator responsibilities
  • Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching , training and assessing in clinical practice
  • Write reports
  • Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings.
  • Use approved breakaway techniques
Desirable criteria
  • Competency in venepuncture

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employer

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
amy colling
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01609 751850
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