Community Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Community Practitioner to work in the Northumberland and North Tyneside Universal Crisis team -Young Persons Pathway. The team is currently based at St Georges Park Hospital, Morpeth. We are looking to recruit a community practitioner who is passionate about the role, the successful candidate will be encouraged to be involved in service improvement and the delivery of care ensuring an enhanced and streamlined service. The team works with children, young people and their carers up to the age of 18 years old, with the principal objective of offering assessment and home treatment for young people experiencing a mental health crisis, as an alternative to hospital admission. The post holder will have clinical expertise in assessment, intervention, and evaluation in mental health care. The role will involve the Biopsychosocial assessment of young people who have presented in crisis. They will be required to provide specialist advice regarding mental illness to service users, carers and other practitioners.