Job summary
- Main area
- Dual Diagnosis/Older Persons Mental Health Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 184-DC6220060
- Employer
- Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Harrison House/Barnfield Unit
- Town
- Taunton/Minehead
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Dual Diagnosis Older Persons Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
Our award winning trusts recognise that our colleagues are our most valuable resource, we are proud of the excellent levels of service our Trust provides to our service users and the dedication and conscientiousness of our colleagues. With over 10,000 colleagues working for our trusts in a very wide range of services, we aim to provide a supportive, inclusive environment in which our colleagues can thrive.
Job overview
Calling all RMNs, OTs, and Social Workers!
We're on the lookout for dynamic professionals to join our team, providing assessment and treatment for individuals with severe and enduring mental health challenges that could also be alongside co-existing substance misuse disorders.
Your role is pivotal in delivering resilient and therapeutic interventions as part of the wider community mental health service response to the population of Somerset.
You'll work within a specific locale ensuring the provision of a high-quality service for those diagnosable with a dual diagnosis, this will be alongside working with individuals over the age of 65 years supporting with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of our team, you'll manage a clinical caseload and offer supervision and advice to other mental health professionals in relation to their working practice with this service user group.
You'll play a vital role in promoting awareness and best practices, fostering positive attitudes, and ensuring a consistent approach to assessment and treatment. We rely on evidence-based interventions and treatment frameworks to make a meaningful impact within this demographic
Working for our organisation
As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression, and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.
There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions for people with a Dual Diagnosis within a designated geographical area or as required by the Service
- To work within the principles of the Trust’s Dual Diagnosis Policy and to help with early identification of people who might benefit from the service and/or who might be diagnosable with co-existing disorders
- To act as a key worker for a caseload of people diagnosable with a Dual Diagnosis, assessing their needs, and developing their recovery care plan, coordinating and reviewing their care and treatment outlined in the plan.
- To co-ordinate working practices amongst other relevant professionals in the designated locality, including psychologists and psychological therapists.
- To develop and maintain one’s own clinical skills and expertise in the area of approaches to, and treatment of people with a mental health difficulty/Dual Diagnosis; and, to be reflective and responsive to meaningful service user and carer involvement
Person specification
professional registration
Essential criteria
- • RMN OR Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy OR Social Work; OR other relevant health or social care professional qualification, OR qualification in a relevant psychological therapy
qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- • Short course in relevant subject • Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- • Motivational Interviewing and Relapse Prevention Training • Evidence of recent relevant training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Good understanding of national guidance and the evidence base around dual diagnosis to underpin practice
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge within dual diagnosis across a range of procedures underpinned by relevant psychological /psychosocial theory
- • Understanding of drug and alcohol service provision and the relationship required with mental health services
experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience in working with people with complex clinical and risk presentations, including those diagnosable with dual diagnosis
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of offering clinical supervision to other professionals
- • Working within drug and alcohol services or clear partnership with
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Beverley DRohan
- Job title
- Team Manager OPCMHT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920278887
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