Community Mental Health Practitioner

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

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Job summary

Are you looking for a role with a clear career pathway? Do you want to challenge yourself and progress into a senior role within a set time-frame?

Our Waveney Adult Community Mental Health Team are seeking a dedicated Community Mental Health Practitioner to join their team.

Our collaborative team are based at Victoria House, Lowestoft, but travel across all of Waveney to visit service users. You'll be working alongside a close knit multi-disciplinary team of Assistant Practitioners, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Peer Support Workers, Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, Psychiatrists and Care Support Workers.

We provide a community-based service to Lowestoft and rural Waveney market towns and villages; we have excellent working relationships with external agencies and partners who are all working together to develop recovery-based care plans.

We're a relatively new, developing team and are looking for individuals with experience working in the community and with a knowledge/understanding of assessment, the referral process, case handling and working collaboratively with the wider MDT.

Our expectation is for you to join us as a Community Mental Health Practitioner and progress into a senior role within agreed time frames by achieving set competencies.

We're passionate about enabling our staff to develop by providing a supportive environment & would welcome any applicants who are looking to challenge themselves in a new role.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will be a qualified professional Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with experience of working in the community supporting working age adults with mental health problems following the Care Programme Approach.

We'd like you to be able to demonstrate a sound understanding of your role as a Care Coordinator and have an understanding of the triage and assessment process, as we accept a number of referrals from GP surgeries and other services.

You'll need to demonstrate robust and sound assessment skills; our secondary mental health service cares for individuals with severe and enduring mental health problems such as bipolar, trauma, personality disorder and schizophrenia.

We're always developing new ways of supporting our service users; we boast a thriving Recovery College and Therapeutic Day service, plus access to respite and admission prevention support within a supported housing provider.

When you join us, you can expect to enjoy plenty of opportunities for joint working, case formulation, training and a sound supervision structure. Team members are regularly involved in whole service delivery development, including Day service, Psychological Therapies and joint working with Primary Care.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Date posted

27 July 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£24,907 to £30,615 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-GYW4380862

Job locations

Victoria House

Alexandra Road

Lowestoft

NR32 1PH


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant professional qualification
  • Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy Or, Nursing degree or equivalent RN (MH)

Desirable

  • ENB998/Mentorship Evidence of successful post registration academic development at degree level in related field

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to work regularly unsupervised
  • Good observation and reporting skills
  • Crisis management
  • Clinical Assessment

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
  • Knowledge of psychosocial interventions
  • An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government initiative)

Desirable

  • Knowledge of mental health needs

Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant professional qualification
  • Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy Or, Nursing degree or equivalent RN (MH)

Desirable

  • ENB998/Mentorship Evidence of successful post registration academic development at degree level in related field

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to work regularly unsupervised
  • Good observation and reporting skills
  • Crisis management
  • Clinical Assessment

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
  • Knowledge of psychosocial interventions
  • An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government initiative)

Desirable

  • Knowledge of mental health needs

Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Victoria House

Alexandra Road

Lowestoft

NR32 1PH


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Victoria House

Alexandra Road

Lowestoft

NR32 1PH


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Community Team Manager

James Farebrother

james.farebrother@nsft.nhs.uk

01502532100

Date posted

27 July 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£24,907 to £30,615 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-GYW4380862

Job locations

Victoria House

Alexandra Road

Lowestoft

NR32 1PH


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