Job summary
Our innovative and award-winning Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Service seeks a creative and flexible Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to join our team. The Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Team, based in Norwich, supports service users with complex and enduring severe mental illness in the Central Norfolk Locality. As a team we are passionate about creative engagement, and empowering service users with complex needs to achieve their Recovery goals.
The team is a pioneering multi-agency service, and along with NSFT colleagues (nursing, OT, psychology,psychiatryand pharmacy), we havefully integratedsubstance misuse support from CGL, social workers from Norfolk County Council,andrecovery and peer support workers from Together.As a caseload holding team, we provide rehabilitation support when and where a person needs it - in the community, in supported accommodation, or in-reaching to inpatient settings.
The successful candidate will be required to work with a caseload of service users and work collaboratively towards rehabilitation goals.
Main duties of the job
Are you a highly motivated, passionate, and skilled Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist? Do you believe in keeping Service Users and Carers at the heart of everything you do? The ideal candidate will have an interest in working within a busy and dynamic specialist rehabilitation service, working with service users presenting with complex psychosis.
We are openly welcoming people from a diverse clinical background with experience in different areas of mental health. We are looking for innovative and focused practitioners who are determined to make a positive difference to the care of our Service Users.
You will be responsible for the assessment, planning, review and delivery of care and treatment in conjunction with the MDT and service users on your caseload, working as the key worker for a small number of service users (limited to 15). But will work with any service users who could benefit from your skills and experience. You will support duty cover for the team on a rostered basis and will liaise with other agencies to ensure care needs are met.
The successful candidate can expect to spend the vast majority of their working week in face to face contact with service users, making the use of their specialist clinical skills.
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.
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
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!
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Interviews are to be held on 29th August 2025, however subject to change, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. 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.
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!
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Interviews are to be held on 29th August 2025, however subject to change, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
- Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)
Desirable
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
- Recognised Leadership/Management training
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
Desirable
- Experience in supporting service development and quality improvement initiatives
- Experience of interagency working
Other
Essential
- Ability and willingness to travel independently to meet the needs and requirements of the service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
- Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)
Desirable
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
- Recognised Leadership/Management training
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
Desirable
- Experience in supporting service development and quality improvement initiatives
- Experience of interagency working
Other
Essential
- Ability and willingness to travel independently to meet the needs and requirements of the service
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.
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.
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).
