Job Title: Community Mental Health Practitioner
Location: Jersey
Type: Permanent
Salary: £59,717 - £65,805 per annum
Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Community Mental Health Practitioner to work in Jersey on a full-time basis.
Imagine building a fulfilling career in a place where your work truly matters. On the beautiful island of Jersey, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact, with a diverse range of challenges that will inspire you to grow both personally and professionally. In this close-knit community, your contributions are valued, and you'll see the results of your efforts every day. With a welcoming environment that encourages innovation and offers plenty of support, Jersey is the perfect place to take your career to the next level while enjoying the unique lifestyle that island life has to offer.
Main duties:
- Receive and scrutinise appropriateness of referrals
- Utilise excellent interpersonal skills, ability to listen others’ views, respecting and valuing individuals frodiverse range of backgrounds.
- Carry out assessments (including for those in crisis) in the community, in the Emergency Departmenpolice custody independently, liaising with family and professionals and taking an active role in risk-asseand safety planning. Where appropriate, promoting and enabling the use of alternatives to hospital admLiaising and working positively with members of the team, other teams within the department, and partnorganisations.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to empower service users and carers, maximise user independence, and ensure the protection of islanders’ human rights.
- Recognise and address concerns about the physical health needs of service users, and how they iwith the service user’s mental health needs.
- Encourage and empower service users to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individuaprogram of care and with their consent, where appropriate, seeking the cooperation of relatives, carers, community provisions following recovery principles and approaches.
- Support service users to adopt recovery strategies that promote their wellbeing, healthy lifestyle, independence, and self-care.
- Responsible and professionally accountable for a caseload as part of the crisis and assessment team.
Requirements of the Community Mental Health Practitioner:
- A recognised qualification in social work, mental health nursing, or occupational therapy
- NMC Registration
- Experience of working in community mental health
- Experience of working in acute mental health care
- Knowledge of the application of the Mental Health (Jersey) Law (2016) and its Code of Practice (2018). Specialist knowledge of the different models of mental disorder
- Specialist knowledge of the pharmacological and psychosocial interventions available for the treatment mental disorders.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of Health and Community Services policies and procedures
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of the principles of safeguarding and the relevant policies and procedures for both adults and children
- Knowledge of a range of risk assessment tools in the assessment and treatment of mental disorders.
- Knowledge of services for people with mental health problems in Jersey
Contact:
This Community Mental Health Practitioner job is advertised by Craig Osborne; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
