mental health counselor Birmingham, England
NHS
Full Time
Birmingham, England
42618 - 35392 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Do you like a challenge, working with individuals within probation services? Do you want to be part of a multi-disciplinary team helping to improve quality of life in communities and achieving desistance from crime?
Are you a registered RMN or Social worker who is dynamic, likes a challenge and has excellent engagement skills?
If you answered yes, then this could be the role for you.
Band 6 community practitioner
Fixed term (12 months) - 30 hours per week
Agile working: Mixture of home working and spending time at Birmingham and Solihull Probation/ Police stations and joint community visits.
Your role sits within the criminal justice teams and fills the gap between short term criminal justice services such as Liaison and Diversion and Primary and secondary mental health Teams.
The main duties include:
- Assessment and care planning in conjunction with service, carer, probation and Birmingham Police.
- Evaluation of individual treatment plans
- Participate in and contribute to weekly IOM case management meetings, ensuring that colleagues from other agencies are kept fully informed of the status and progress of IOM individuals on caseload.
- Risk management
- Handover to other services as needed.
By joining MPFT you will become part of a diverse and inclusive team who are empowered and supported to deliver care in a way which is consistent with our values:
- putting people at the heart of what we do
- empowering people to improve care and wellbeing
- delivering better health, better care in partnership
We will support your career development and progression. Membership of the excellent NHS pension scheme, generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave, pay and the option for flexible working. You will receive up to 27 days annual leave (increasing to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
We are also proud to have a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Integrated Offender Management (IOM) was introduced in 2009. Its aim is to bring a cross-agency response to crime and reoffending threats faced by local communities. Service users will be jointly managed by Police, Probation and other partner agencies; to reduce reoffending and make communities safer. Your role as a practitioner will have support and supervision from the Integrated Offender Health Teams and a partner I.O.M nurse. The role will cover Birmingham and Solihull probation offices and police stations
- Offer mental health assessment, support and treatment for the Integrated Offender Management I.O.M population
- Refer to primary mental health, secondary mental health services where care coordination is needed.
- Develop close partnerships, training and support across Birmingham police, Probation and the third sector
- Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy
- Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care in collaboration with other IOM staff
- Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care including; psychologically informed interventions, referring to other health care providers where appropriate.
- Complete and contribute to robust risk assessments and risk management plan
- Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate
