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Job overview

The Hambleton and Richmondshire Community Mental Health Team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to join our dynamic Older Persons Team based at North Moor House Northallerton, to cover maternity leave.  As a senior practitioner you will have a genuine interest in collaborative working with older adults experiencing functional and/or organic mental health problems including their carers and families. You will help the team to provide wellbeing and recovery focused care for individuals with complex and challenging mental health needs, including dementia, depression, anxiety and psychotic illnesses, within community-based settings. 

This post is only open to those candidates who already have their NMC registration in place and have successfully completed the preceptorship programme. Please note: Newly qualified applicants or those due to qualify will be recruited via our recruitment fairs.

Main duties of the job

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to develop their leadership and clinical skills in a community setting. As a Senior Practitioner, you will offer supervision and guidance to newly qualified staff, students and support workers. As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, providing assessments, care co-ordination and delivering intervention in the community with people who have complex needs ranging from a moderate level of need to severe and enduring level of need and complexity.  You will demonstrate excellent assessment and analysis skills, interpersonal, communication and team working skills. You will need to be committed to working collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies to promote holistic wellbeing and recovery focused care.

Hambleton and Richmondshire  CMHT is a lively, dynamic, and supportive multi-disciplinary team committed to collaboration and joint working. You will support the team's improvement activities for co-creation, aiming to deliver care that is highly personalised to each individual's needs and working closely with families, paid and unpaid carers.  

The team are committed to providing excellent evidence-based quality care to older adults.  It is imperative that the successful candidate has a flexible pro-active approach to their person-centred practice. 

Working for our organisation

The vacancy is within a community-based service that delivers care across Hambleton and Richmondshire primary care networks. You will hold a caseload for the Hambleton area but will also provide support to the wider team as part of our intensive working model.

You will have an enthusiastic approach towards your own personal and professional development. In return, you will receive regular appraisal, clinical, management and caseload supervision and will benefit from the support of an experienced and committed multi-disciplinary leadership team, including the Team Manager, the Clinical Specialist Nurse/Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Psychologist.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Browse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Please provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).  Your current immigration status will not be considered as part of the shortlisting or interview process.

Please note that not everyone needs a ‘Skilled Worker’ visa. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead.

We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers here: Skilled Worker visa: Your job - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and for the Health and Care Worker visa here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note: if the job you are applying for does not meet the eligibility criteria above, we will be unable to offer you sponsorship and you will need to explore whether you may be eligible to apply for an alternative immigration route which will secure your right to work in the UK before you apply.  If you are in the UK already on a visa please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post.