Mental Health Practitioner

Surrey and Borders is looking for someone who is passionate about ensuring a high-quality holistic approach to the care and support provided to clients in the community who have been identified as in need of community nurse support to enable them to exercise choice over their own lives.

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Working Pattern: Monday to Friday from 9AM to 5 PM

• Lead the clinical management of care packages for individuals using the service.
• Coordinate and monitor person-centred healthcare for a designated group of service users.
• Deliver psychosocial interventions through individual and group therapy.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) to assess needs, plan care, and respond to changes in service users’ health.
• Provide therapeutic activities, emotional support, and stability to promote engagement and recovery.
• Build and maintain professional relationships with staff, external professionals, and agencies.
• Respond effectively to unpredictable situations, including crisis incidents and challenging behaviour.
• Maintain accurate documentation and communication with service users, carers, relatives, and professionals.

Support quality improvement, service development, and adherence to organisational standards and policies.

Conduct risk assessments and contribute to risk management and safeguarding processes.

Demonstrate knowledge and application of relevant legislation, including the Mental Health Act (MHA), Mental Capacity Act (MCA), and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).

Support staff development, student mentorship, and team functioning.

Participate in management activities such as staff supervision, appraisal support, and safe staffing.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organizations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Siobhan Fleming Job title: Manager Email address: siobhan.fleming@sabp.nhs.uk