Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner
- NHS
- Full Time
- Bulford Camp
- 37338.00 - 44962.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
Are you an experienced, dynamic and energetic clinician looking for a new challenge? Would you like to add military mental healthcare to your career portfolio? We deliver military mental healthcare service delivery across the South West England and you could play a role in this exciting project.
We are looking for someone with vision, experience and drive who can adapt to a new organisational culture whilst still adhering to the highest standards of professional practice. Being an active team member will inspire mental healthcare colleagues to work together to provide the best care we can for serving military personnel whilst your clinical experience will ensure timely and efficient service delivery. This is a unique opportunity to work in a specialist occupational mental health service with both patients and colleagues who have served around the world.
You will need to maintain a flexible approach to evolving service delivery requirements in a fast-paced occupational environment. Experience of working with military populations is an advantage but it is by no means a pre-requisite for application. Your interest, enthusiasm and commitment are more important!
The full-time position being advertised is for 37.5 hours per week. Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
Main duties of the job
We currently have a Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner vacancy at Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH), Bulford.
The successful candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) setting to provide a specialised/occupational mental health service for all Service and entitled personnel within the Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH) area of responsibility (AOR) and the Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) Region as required. The post holder will have experience of working in adult community mental healthcare.
This is an exciting opportunity to apply your existing knowledge and skill to a new delivery setting which includes use of remote video consultation. As the service develops, we would be encouraging you to explore opportunities to work in partnership with Primary Care and Welfare Services colleagues.
For further duties, please ensure you read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Benefits
- Access to learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- NHS Pension
- Access to parking
- Professional Registration Fees Re-imbursed
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
About us
Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If youve ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Providing Mental Health assessment, risk assessment and formulation of the mental health and treatment needs for referred patients; acting as care-coordinator. Provide recommendations for maintaining maximal employment, applying an occupational health matrix.
- Initiating and participating in regular clinical supervision, case conferences/professionals' meetings where mental health clinical input is required. Present patients to the MDT for guidance, support, supervision and training.
- Acting as a clinical resource and liaise with Medical Officers/General Practitioners (MO/GP) and offer advice to Unit Commanders on mental health matters, the administrative management of personnel with mental health difficulties and mental health promotion.
- Participating in Healthcare Governance processes to ensure maintenance of DCMH obligations to continuing CQC inspections and Safe and Effective Practise. There may be additional secondary clinical roles to assist the teams delivery of this but will not detract from the main focus of delivering assessment and therapy directly to patients.
- Communicating, where appropriate, on occupational information directly with service persons chain of command whilst respecting the principles of patient confidentiality (Caldicott).
Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information on the role and its requirements.
Selection Process
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, a short presentation or case study will be required, alongside this you will also be tested against the following NHS Technical Skills:
- NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB2-Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB6-Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB7-Interventions & Treatment
- NHS Information & Knowledge-NHS IK1-Information Processing
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
Additional Information
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date and interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.
The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.
We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.
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