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Mental Health Practitioner with £3k welcome bonus

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

The closing date is 13 May 2025

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Job summary

We are recruiting a Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Team in Lowestoft.

We want to recruit Practitioners who can join our trust and established Community Team; bringing with them fresh ideas and fresh ambition. We would welcome applications from newly qualified Practitioners and will support them through their preceptorship process and future development within the team.

Our Trust values of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what this role encompasses.

You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users.We are looking for someone who displays compassion, empathy and sensitivity in your approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging manner.

In return we offer a supportive multi-disciplinary team environment where you will be encouraged to develop your own knowledge of psychosocial interventions and positive health promotion, with first-hand experience of engaging service users.

If you're a Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Nurse - we would love to talk to you about how your skills can be utilised within our team!

Main duties of the job

Our primary focus is on collaborative working; placing great emphasis on recovery.

Many aspects relating to service user recovery is reflected within the assessment tools the patients and staff use and the philosophy that underpins patient centred care.

Main duties of this role include:

Holding a caseload of non-complex service Users

Offering holistic support and monitoring for service users and carers

Administration of depot medication (if you are a Registered Nurse)

Attending weekly team meetings, regular reflective practice sessions and case formulations

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you!

Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:-

  • NHS pension
  • a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service
  • NHS discounts and many more.

We are working hard to maintain usual recruitment process however please be aware that we may ask you to be interviewed via MS Teams rather than in person. Please also bear with us as we endeavour to recruit as many people as we can in unprecedented times.

Date posted

29 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year gross per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-GYW7168244

Job locations

Victoria House

Alexandra Roaad

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!

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!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Valid registration with NMC or Professional Registration with Health Care Professionals Council
  • Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.

Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently

Experience

Essential

  • CPA implementation

Desirable

  • Experience in appropriate area
  • Has worked within an MDT setting
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Valid registration with NMC or Professional Registration with Health Care Professionals Council
  • Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.

Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently

Experience

Essential

  • CPA implementation

Desirable

  • Experience in appropriate area
  • Has worked within an MDT setting

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

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Victoria House

Alexandra Roaad

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 Roaad

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

29 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year gross per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-GYW7168244

Job locations

Victoria House

Alexandra Roaad

Lowestoft

NR32 1PH


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