Community Mental Health Practitioner- Adult CMHT

Job summary

Are you a Mental Health Practitioner looking to work as part of a collaborative, developing community team based on the outskirts of Norwich?

Hello, My name is Nicole Smith and I am the Service Manager here at the City Community Mental Health teams based at The Anchorage, Norwich.

Our forward-thinking community mental health teams are seeking a mental health practitioner to join their team as a dedicated caseload holder.

We are currently improving on how we work, to ensure that our team can provide an excellent service to our local communities; we have recently invested in numerous clinical lead posts to support our current multi-disciplinary teams to ensure we have nurse consultants, clinical nurse specialists, psychologists to name a few..

As a caseload holder, you will hold a caseload of service users with complex mental health conditions (such as bi-polar disorder, personality disorder, schizophrenia, severe depression) that require ongoing care and treatment from secondary mental health services.

It is the ideal time to join our collaborative team as we transform and develop the way we work -although this is a full-time role, we can be flexible and can offer some hybrid working and/or flexible working patterns if needed.

I welcome you to contact me to discuss more about the role and arrange a time for you to visit the CMHT base and a chance to meet with members of our friendly, dedicated and supportive team.

Main duties of the job

You'll play a key role in our service users' recovery; you'll complete a recovery care plan collaboratively with them and review this regularly with the aim of the service user being discharged from the service as part of their recovery journey. You will work with the service user, carers, external agencies and other services to ensure the service received is streamlined and cohesive.

You'll be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team and will be required to undertake assessments and the role of the duty worker. You'll regularly be working with external agencies as part of a service users care and treatment, so being able to work well in a team and having excellent communication skills is vital. You'll get the opportunity to work with students from various disciplines as well as supervising other members of the team. You can expect a thorough induction and training period, as well as opportunities for ongoing development.

Now is the perfect time to join us, as we have new clinical leadership roles imbedded with the team, which increases the clinical support available. You can expect a manageable case load and a supportive management team to ensure you're able to work independently but support is never far away if needed.

The ideal candidate should have experience in working in a mental health environment and ideally experiencing in working in community teams. You'll be motivated, compassionate, and keen to ensure our service users receive the best possible outcomes.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

City Anchorage, Julian Hospital Site

Bowthorpe Road

Norwich

NR2 3TD

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

City Anchorage, Julian Hospital Site

Bowthorpe Road

Norwich

NR2 3TD

Employer's website

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

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