Mental Health Practitioner

Overview

JP Medicals Recruitment, a leading NHS healthcare recruitment agency is currently recruiting a dedicated Mental Health Practitioner HCPC registration to work in regular and flexible shifts at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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Job Description 

• To assume responsibility for management of a defined caseload using specialist knowledge and advanced
  clinical reasoning to undertake assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care programs
  for children and families, liaising with and referring to relevant agencies as appropriate.
• To take an active role in the holistic assessment and treatment of young people who present to the
  service, with mental health problems and especially those that are at risk of, or have attempted deliberate self-harm.
• Provide liaison with other professionals and agencies in order to provide effective communication leading
  to a comprehensive and integrated package of care around the young person, their families and/or carers.
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To offer therapeutic interventions based on evidence-based practice and in line with the NICE guidelines.
• To ensure the clients’ rights of confidentiality are maintained at all times.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording,
  report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with
  professional codes of practice/ conduct.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of
  children, young people and their families/carers.
• To provide an assessment and therapy service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and
  integration of complex data from a variety of sources, including psychological assessments, self-report
  measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations as well as interviews with children,
  young people and their families/carers.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people and their
  families/carers.
• To act as an advocate to facilitate the views and choices expressed by children, young people, families,
  groups and communities, where appropriate.

How to Apply for a Job in a Mental Health Practitioner  –

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Please apply online with a copy of your most recent CV, who meets the above requirements and is interested in this position?

Please feel free to Email registration@jpmedicals.co.uk, the best nursing agency in the UK.

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