Job summary
The Brighton and Hove Emotional Wellbeing Service (B&H EWS) is seeking to recruit TWO Band 6 Nursing, OT, or Social Work mental health practitioners to its growing team based in the city's six Primary Care Networks (PCNs).
This exciting service works closely with voluntary sector partners and GPs to provide accessible, high quality clinical consultation, assessment, and tailored one-to-one mental health interventions right on the GP practice doorstep. Our prompt interventions provide a vital safety net for people who are at real risk of falling into the gaps between traditional services.
The people we work with are usually unable to access IAPT services, and may not meet the threshold for secondary care. However, we have excellent links to other teams locally to ensure people move seamless if we aren't best placed to help them. This includes other SPFT community teams (ATS, Wellbeing etc.) and third sector partners.
Main duties of the job
The B&H EWS is a cornerstone of the city's community mental health transformation. You will work in the GP PCN but benefit fully from being part of the SPFT family, with excellent training, support, and supervision as standard.
Working with us, you will encounter people with a range of mental health needs. As a Band 6 practitioner you will be sufficiently skilled and experienced to engage, assess, and work with them over 6-8 sessions to find the right pathway to support. You will communicate closely with service users, GPs, secondary care services, carers, and voluntary sector networks. You will make sure that people's needs are fully understood at the earliest point, providing a bridge between primary and secondary care when necessary.
Your interventions will be vital to preventing deterioration in previously stable patients, supporting people to get to the right services, and supporting GPs and voluntary sector colleagues to provide safe, evidence-based mental health support.
About us
Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, and ensures our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. We know that a positive work / life balance brings about massive health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example: home-working, part time hours, flexible start or finish times, or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Your benefits:
- Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- Access to a host of discount schemes, and excellent NHS pension
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with continuous NHS service)
- A 'Golden Hello' or relocation package for non-SPFT staff of up to £2000 (see attached documentation for terms and conditions)
Job description
Job responsibilities
We would encourage you to give us a ring / skype to discuss these exciting roles in advance of your application:
Clinical Service Manager, B&H EWS: James Watson james.watson@spft.nhs.uk 07393 235 042
We are looking for self-motivated, energetic, and creative clinicians who can not only deliver great care, but can support other non-specialist PCN staff to understand and work more effectively with mental health service users.
You will have substantial, transferable mental health experience (whether inpatient or community), and up to date professional registration from a core mental health profession.
These two roles will be important to the transformation of community mental health service in Brighton and Hove, helping ensure that gaps in service between GPs, the voluntary sector, and secondary tier services can be bridged. We are looking for practitioners who can build partnerships, and can work flexibly and adaptively in developing these locally focussed services.
The team supports blended working options within the needs of the service, and of service users.
Please note: this role is open to Nursing, OT and Social Work core mental health professions with current registration on the NMC, HCPC or SWE registers. Counselling and Psychotherapy applicants without these core profession qualifications or registration will not be shortlisted.
Interviews will be conducted remotely.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We would encourage you to give us a ring / skype to discuss these exciting roles in advance of your application:
Clinical Service Manager, B&H EWS: James Watson james.watson@spft.nhs.uk 07393 235 042
We are looking for self-motivated, energetic, and creative clinicians who can not only deliver great care, but can support other non-specialist PCN staff to understand and work more effectively with mental health service users.
You will have substantial, transferable mental health experience (whether inpatient or community), and up to date professional registration from a core mental health profession.
These two roles will be important to the transformation of community mental health service in Brighton and Hove, helping ensure that gaps in service between GPs, the voluntary sector, and secondary tier services can be bridged. We are looking for practitioners who can build partnerships, and can work flexibly and adaptively in developing these locally focussed services.
The team supports blended working options within the needs of the service, and of service users.
Please note: this role is open to Nursing, OT and Social Work core mental health professions with current registration on the NMC, HCPC or SWE registers. Counselling and Psychotherapy applicants without these core profession qualifications or registration will not be shortlisted.
Interviews will be conducted remotely.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health qualification or equivalent
- Include relevant professional registration
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-qualifying experience of clinical work with people with a range of mental health problems
- Experience of partnership working within and across various different statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
- Experience in working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of providing low intensity psychological interventions including, provision of self help, behavioural activation, solution focused, guided self help, and a CBT informed approach using a range of delivery models, telephone, face to face , individual and workshops
- Experienced in conducting clinical assessments, including risk assessments
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health qualification or equivalent
- Include relevant professional registration
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-qualifying experience of clinical work with people with a range of mental health problems
- Experience of partnership working within and across various different statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
- Experience in working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of providing low intensity psychological interventions including, provision of self help, behavioural activation, solution focused, guided self help, and a CBT informed approach using a range of delivery models, telephone, face to face , individual and workshops
- Experienced in conducting clinical assessments, including risk assessments
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).
