Job summary
Employer heading
Community Mental health Recovery Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 3,500 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone’s life is a very powerful feeling. We know that our Trust runs on this desire to help and support people, and our Trust vision expresses this. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.
We proudly offer supportive, inclusive and family friendly employment and flexible working policies. We have a wide range of professional services and employee networks to help our colleagues be at their best - and find support if they need it. To find more about our staff benefits, please visit our website: blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and ethnic minority candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Black Country Healthcare we recognise and value all forms of knowledge and expertise, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the job description/person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For further supporting information to help you apply for this role please see documents attached under ‘Additional documents’.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the New Community Enablement and Recovery Team (HOPE team) for the Black Country. This role includes providing wrap around care in conjunction with CMHTs and care co-ordination of service users from a capped team caseload that are either in out of area rehabilitation placements or living within the Black Country. These individuals will be open to secondary care services with a diagnosed Severe Mental Illness and requiring community rehabilitation support.
The post holder will also be responsible for supporting discharge from hospital, providing recovery focussed interventions and assessing the complex mental health needs of individuals, ensuring that the placement and or package of care is appropriate to their needs and step down to locality based services. The post holder will work intensely with the client for up to 18 months, focussing on helping to build resilience, improve their wellbeing and tailoring interventions to meet their individual, cultural and social needs to help them to achieve their optimum level of functioning and a fulfilling life
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (HOPE team) MDT, which includes a Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologist and Occupational Therapists. The post holder will liaise with external agencies to achieve personalised recovery outcomes for patients within the service.
The post holder will be able operate flexibly from home and /or a community-based facility and will provide service from the work base, virtually or within the service user’s place of residence. Some travel will be required to visit out of area placements to review care
The service will operate Monday to Friday 9-5 hours but is expected to advise service users and carers of access to services outside of these hours and liaise and refer on to other mental health care providers in cases where support outside of these hours is required.
Working for our organisation
At Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, we’re building a high-calibre, diverse and inclusive mental health workforce. One that will give talented professionals like you the opportunity to shape an outstanding service that will transform community mental healthcare and deliver happier and healthier lives all across our communities.
The Trust is rated ‘Good’ from CQC (Care Quality Commission) and will become the lead provider for mental health services across The Black Country . We have recently invested in newly created clinical divisions and are currently developing new models of integrated primary and secondary care for adults and older adults, as well launching a far-reaching inpatient strategy, working to eradicate dormitories and building new facilities.
This ambitious model is multi-agency and multi-disciplinary, opening the door for you to work in a collaborative and flexible way with partners, service users, carers and their families
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide care co-ordination, Wrap around input to CMHT, assessment and recovery focussed interventions to service users within a specified time frame across the Black Country
Liaison with external services to facilitate discharge from out of area placements, co-ordinate 117 packages of care and to support referral process
Contributing to the development and implementation of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (HOPE team)
Working within an MDT to work holistically and improve our patient’s recovery journey
For further details please see Job Description and Person Specification
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 6 months post registration
- Community experience
- Experience of working with individuals with severe mental illness
- Knowledge of person centred, recovery focussed and trauma informed care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a Recovery Model
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Multi-professional teamwork
Desirable criteria
- Mental Health Legislation and policy including CPA and 117
Skills/Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Commitment / Genuine interest of client group within area of speciality
- Ability to prioritise workload
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
- Clare Barnes
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920751329
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