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Warwickshire County Council
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Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Lead Practitioner
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Job Description
About Us Warwickshire County Council's Mental Health Services are integrated with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust (CWPT) under a long-standing and successful Section 75 agreement. The integrated and multi-disciplinary teams have been organised into Integrated Practice Units (IPUs) which allow for person-centred care and support to be tailored according to service users' and carers' needs. The IPUs are based on defined national care clusters: Non Psychosis (clusters 3-8), Psychosis (clusters 10-17) and Organic (clusters 18-21) and all work with people who have complex and enduring mental health problems requiring care co-ordination under the Care Programme Approach. Each IPU provides outcome-focused interventions which also includes Care Act assessment and support-planning to address social care needs. This Lead Practitioner (LP) post is one of several, each aligned to an IPU, and has been created in order to provide leadership and supervision to our integrated social care staff as well as promoting the social care agenda within the IPUs. This specific post is aligned to the 18-21 Dementia IPU and although it is a countywide post the successful applicant will spend the majority of their time working with our staff in the Rugby and Nuneaton bases. The Role Ideally we're looking for an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) who can additionally provide a small contribution to the daytime AMHP rota. But more importantly we want a passionate and enthusiastic leader who has experience of developing and motivating those they work with. Someone who can work autonomously, who is creative and imaginative when it comes to meeting service users' needs, and someone who cares deeply about their work and what they can bring to a team. The successful candidate will work flexibly to manage a challenging workload. You will provide professional supervision to several social care staff who work within the CWPT IPUs, and who are line managed by a CWPT Team Manager. This means you working alongside, and in partnership with, Health colleagues and consistently promoting the social care agenda throughout. As well as supervision, you will be evaluating and approving social care funding. You will take a lead on Safeguarding cases and must have experience of promoting and protecting service users' right. You will also investigate complaints and at times may deputise for the operations manager. You will also need a good knowledge of legislation such as the Care Act, the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act. This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for someone who sees themselves as a leader. Someone who can inspire and develop others' full potential, while also being able to make difficult decisions and challenge 'the norm'. If this is you, then please apply! For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification Additional Information This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. For more information, or if you have questions, please contact Operations Manager, Josh Sklar, on 07717 891 121. Closes: Wednesday 17th June 2020 Anticipated Interview date: Monday 29th June 2020 (the interview may take place virtually) If successful we would like you to start as soon as possible. Closing date: 10th June 2020 To apply for this vacancy please click on the 'Apply' button. Our method of application is online, please note, CV's should not been submitted unless asked to do so. If you are unable to apply using the 'Apply' button please contact the Recruitment Centre on hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk including your contact details and any relevant screenshots. You will be notified of our shortlisting decision via email, so please check your email on a regular basis after submitting your application. As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application demonstrates that they meet the criteria for the post. This means the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification. Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements. Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. Would particularly welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from the BAME community, people with a disability and people from the LGBT+ Community. ...[more details]