Associate Practitioner

Work with clients in their homes & communities includes graded exposure, PSI informed coping strategies and techniques.

Provide short-to-medium term support in line with CORE service remit.

Group work - facilitating and organising client group courses for CORE.

Co-facilitate psychoeducation groups within Core.

To support the leadership of Support Worker function and their caseload.

Provides advice & guidance to referring professionals on support work function and suitability of clients, with consideration for support workers, Community Supporters, and Associate Practitioner interventions.

Leadership role for support work function (Support workers, Community Supporters)

Referrals & Caseload management working with service to consider referrals and allocation.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be expected to carry out initial assessments in a variety of settings for service users referred into secondary care mental health services. The team accept referrals from local GP practices, other health care professionals and partnering agencies.

The post requires excellent risk assessment skills and confidence in decision making around complex mental health conditions.

You will be working in a supportive multi-disciplinary team however you must be able to undertake lone working in community settings. You will also be expected to liaise with other parts of statutory services and third sector organisations.

The applicant will undertake the role of duty worker in addition to assessments and triage. This will involve accepting referrals, providing advice and signposting to service users and their families.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.