Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to take on a new locum ongoing contract role.
Mental Health Practitioner Pay Rate: £30 per hour (assignment rate)
Location: Lewisham
Contract Type: 3-month contract
Benefits of working with us:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Shift Pattern:
- 37.5 hours per week
Duties:
- Work as part of a Primary Care Mental Health Team (PCMHT) to deliver timely assessments, care planning and evidenced based health and pscho social care interventions to the adult population in Lewisham with mental health needs
- Provide support with overall management of referrals, providing timely screening, triage and trusted assessments for patients with a wide range of mental disorder
- Be personally responsible and professionally accountable for a delivering a range of evidenced based psycho-social interventions for a specific case list
- Work in collaboration with our partner agencies and the MDT to provide a range of interventions to support service users to stay well within their local communities including psychological, social prescribing and medication advice and management
- Work with patients and carers using evidenced based tool to inform care planning to support engagement with treatment and appropriate services
- Support family and carers with the management of risk and to escalate all risk concerns as required ensuring that there is clear communication of risk to all involved with care
- Work collaboratively with colleagues within the PCMHT using shared decision making to ensure safe and effective discharge planning or onward referral
- Discharge to Primary Care, onward referral to secondary care, signposting to social prescribers, third sector partners, voluntary services or community based groups
- Ensure that all planning is shared with those involved with the care in a timely manner
- Develop a close relationship with Primary Care practices with the PCN, attending practice meetings and effective communication
- Take part in range of MDT governance, development and clinical meetings
Requirements of the Mental Health Practitioner:
- Degree or equivalent in Mental Health Nursing
- NMC Registration
- Experience working in an NHS setting
- An experienced mental health practitioner with excellent assessment skills to undertake our Triage and Trusted assessment to ensure our patients receive the right care at the right time
- Significant knowledge, awareness and understanding of Mental Health Law, including legislation of particular relevance to the community sector including the Community Care Act (2015) treatment legislation Risk Assessment and Risk Management
- Recognising and responding appropriately to “self-harm and suicide prevention” with particular regard to the risks in community settings, in line with policies and training guidelines
- Understanding and working within the boundaries of the Lone Working Policy and awareness of Personal Safety in a community setting, including clear and updated communication with colleagues
- Understanding and implementing safeguarding procedures in a community setting; recognise, report and investigate safeguarding issues and raise safeguarding alerts if you suspect that a service user and/or carer has been exposed to harm or abuse
- Understanding and implementing of Duty of Candour with regard to the particular issues in a community setting
- Demonstrating an awareness and understanding of relevant and up-to- date Mental Health Law of particular relevance in community settings; ensuring adherence to legislation at all times
- Having knowledge of the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Programme Approach, Deprivation of Liberty, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Community Treatment Orders. Infection control
- Understanding and implementing infection control measures in a community setting
- Demonstrate leadership skills within the clinical context of the community, showing awareness of the challenges facing staff working in a community setting and supporting junior staff as appropriate
Contact:
This Mental Health Practitioner job is advertised by Deane Garrard; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from: Community Mental Health Nurse, Registered Nurse, Psychiatric Nurse & Community Nurse as we have vacancies that match with these job titles. Online remote nurse jobs are available from time to time so please get in touch.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Mental Health Nurse role as we need to meet our clients requirements.
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 you work placement.
