Mental Health Practitioner Bristol - Band 6 - Bristol - Permanent - Full time - 37.5 hours per week

To provide specialist mental healthcare to service users and to work as part of the Mental Health In-Reach Team and wider MDT. To deliver a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level; to include Referral management, screening assessment, triage, and evidence-based interventions Care Planning and risk assessing One-to-one and group-work facilitation managing a mixed and challenging caseload Main duties of the job To perform robust assessment, screening, and interventions to service users with mental health and neurodevelopmental and trauma needs Ensure that all waiting time, assessment and interventions are delivered in a timely manner, and positively contribute to the achievement of the service’s performance targets. Ensure integrated and collaborative working with other specialist services, including continuity of care and through the gate arrangements and liaison Work closely with community mental health teams (CMHTs) to ensure appropriate sharing of information, continuity of care and the Care Programme Approach (CPA) for all service users where necessary. To provide comprehensive and timely reports and mental health expertise to multi agency public protection panels (MAPPA), police, probation services, solicitors and court liaison teams as directed. Deliver active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required. To receive supervision as directed (line management and clinical). To participate in resource centre services as directed, delivering psychological therapy and specialist activities under the direction of the clinical lead. To work in a psychologically minded way with service users in achieving their agreed goals and quality health outcomes.