Job summary
- Main area
- Assessment Service Mental Health Professional - SPOA
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 201-24-262
- Employer
- Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Countywide
- Town
- Truro and West Cornwall
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Assessment Practitioner
Band 6
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
Strategic Themes
Great Care
- Care based on what matters to people.
- Care provided at home or close to home.
- Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
- Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
Great Organisation
- Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
- Technology enabled care.
- Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
- Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
Great People
- A place people love to work and feel valued.
- Living our values with staff (all voices count).
- Attract, grow and develop talent.
- Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
Great Partner
- Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
- Joined-up community services.
- Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
- Reduce our impact on the environment.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job overview
The Single Point of Access Team are very pleased to announce that are looking for two forward thinking, experienced mental health professionals to join our progressive and developing team.
Our team is a countywide service, made up of qualified mental health clinicians. We are looking for two additional assessment clinicians to join our already established teams to provide cover across the County. One of the positions will cover the Carrick area and the other will cover the West Cornwall area.
You will be providing triage of new referrals into secondary mental health services, offering relevant signposting recommendations and completing holistic assessment of needs for clients, where appropriate, for all referrals to the Community Mental Health Teams.
The team works closely with primary care services, iCMHTs, specialist services and voluntary sector organisations. You will be involved in further development of collaborative working practices as the Community Mental Health NHS Transformation work continues.
You will need to be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist who has substantial experience of working in Secondary care mental health settings.
We are looking for a confident and motivated practitioner with excellent communication skills who is able to lead on clinical decision making and who can demonstrate the Trust’s vision and values in their clinical practice, ensuring that quality care is our priority.
Main duties of the job
You will be working with your colleagues to manage the referrals coming through to secondary mental health services via triage and initial assessment.
You will be expected to work in partnership working with GPs, other referring agencies and community mental health teams including, Early Interventions in Psychosis, Home Treatment Team and Talking Therapies.
The assessment service is currently developing and is in a period of transformation, so now is an exciting time to be joining and involved with the implementation and development of news ways of working.
We can offer you:
- A supportive team environment where new ideas and innovation are welcomed, considered and acted on.
- Regular supervision and caseload management to help you balance your caseload
- Mandatory training program to maintain your core skills.
- Access to personalised training in line with a yearly appraisal & PDP. We want to develop your skills and expertise.
- We can offer opportunities to help you access CPD activities to develop your career further.
- Staff engagement program, including quarterly “have your say sessions”.
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Team away days to enable us to grow as a team and focus on our shared priorities.
Working for our organisation
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.
Cornwall is a great place to live and work with access to beautiful coastline, beaches and countryside as well as easy access to Truro or Plymouth’s shops, theatres and restaurants.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional registration – RMN, OT, SW
- Evidence of post basic training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered mental health professional with substantial post registration experience.
- Previous experience working in a community setting
Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Computer literate.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Georgina Clark
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07771674884
- Additional information
Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time. Please refrain from Sending the Trust CV’s as this does not count as an introduction
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