Lead Mental Health Practitioner

Job Title: Lead Mental Health Practitioner (OT/SALT/SW)

Location: Flexible

Pay Rate: £45 per hour

Contract Type: Locum

Working Pattern: Up to 3 days per week

Start Date: ASAP

Job Description

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a Lead Mental Health Practitioner to join its client's supportive and forward-thinking team on a locum basis. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Band 6 or Band 7 equivalent clinician with strong dysphagia experience to step into a leadership role.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Lead dysphagia management across the service, ensuring safe and effective assessment and intervention.
• Conduct specialist assessments and develop tailored treatment plans for individuals with complex swallowing and communication needs.
• Provide clinical supervision and mentorship to junior.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated care planning.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to audits and service improvement.
• Deliver training and education to staff and carers around dysphagia and communication strategies.
• Support service development initiatives and uphold best practice standards.

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Qualifications & Experience

• Degree
• HCPC registration.
• Band 6 or Band 7 equivalent clinical background.
• Tracheostomy experience not required .
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ’Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• "Find your own job" bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Reasonable Adjustments

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

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