Mental Health Practitioner

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 08 June 2023

Job summary

If you enjoy the complexity, challenge and fast pace of working in acute mental health this role is for you. As a member of this multi-disciplinary Crisis team you will be supporting people experiencing a crisis in addition to those who may be experiencing a relapse in their diagnosed mental illness.

We support patients, family members and carers and remain committed to the recovery model and a holistic way of working in their homes, offering a variety of interventions and support to aid recovery. If you are looking for a role where you can use the experience you have gathered to make a real and tangible difference to a new and developing service, then this is the job for you!

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

Main duties of the job

The role of this team is varied and plays a central role within the urgent care pathway. You will be liaising with other mental health services and agencies, in addition to acute inpatient units being responsible for early discharge assessments. This role will involve attending and contributing to multi agency professionals' meetings including risk panels. You will need to have some experience of working in acute care (inpatient setting/crisis team/mental health liaison team) and be willing to work flexible hours to enable the team to provide a 7-day service.

You will receive regular supervision and have the opportunity for personal and professional development as well as contributing to the team's development. Chichester CRHTT covers a large geographical area (Arundel, Bognor Regis, Witterings, Selsey, Southbourne, Midhurst, Pulborough, Petworth) it may be that you are required to travel from one end of the patch to the other (sometimes within the one day) in order to fulfil community visits. Therefore, having access to your own transport is essential or you must be able to demonstrate your ability to travel across the patch in an efficient and timely manner. Please contact the team leader if you wish to discuss this further.

This is a seven day per week service, which may necessitate some working unsocial hours, however, working unsocial hours does bring a salary increase, in line with Agenda for Change guidelines.

About us

You will be joining a committed and dynamic multidisciplinary team and will be fully supported and empowered to make a difference to creatively develop many new ways of working, towards building safe and responsive quality mental health services fit for the future.

In return we can offer a supportive working environment and access to training opportunities to assist you to realise your potential and achieve a greater degree of job satisfaction.

As a Trust employee you will enjoy the following:

Excellent starting salary
NHS Pension contributions
27 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
Flexible Working patterns
Child care vouchers
Excellent training and development opportunities
NHS Discounts
Employee Assistance Programme

This post offers The Trust's Golden Hello for band 5 or 6 Nurses, or a Relocation package up to a maximum of £2000. (pro rata applies and subject to terms and conditions. Please see attached Protocol document)

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge 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/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Date posted

25 May 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

354-AC-20605-Q

Job locations

Chapel Street Clinic

Chapel Street

Chichester

PO191BT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
Social Worker
Occupational Therapist

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Knowledge of MHA (1983/2007).
Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (2005), to include practical knowledge of FACE documentation, DOLS and Best Interest decisions
Child and Adult safe guarding procedures
Evidence of organising and prioritising their workload.
Demonstrate ability to enhance care through evidence-based knowledge
Demonstrate professional development relevant to the specific care group

Job description

Job responsibilities

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
Social Worker
Occupational Therapist

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Knowledge of MHA (1983/2007).
Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (2005), to include practical knowledge of FACE documentation, DOLS and Best Interest decisions
Child and Adult safe guarding procedures
Evidence of organising and prioritising their workload.
Demonstrate ability to enhance care through evidence-based knowledge
Demonstrate professional development relevant to the specific care group

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Knowledge of MHA (1983/2007).
Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (2005), to include practical knowledge of FACE documentation, DOLS and Best Interest decisions
Child and Adult safe guarding procedures.
Change management at organising and prioritising their workload
Demonstrate ability to enhance care through evidence based knowledge.
Demonstrate professional development relevant to the specific care group.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Knowledge of MHA (1983/2007).
Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (2005), to include practical knowledge of FACE documentation, DOLS and Best Interest decisions
Child and Adult safe guarding procedures.
Change management at organising and prioritising their workload
Demonstrate ability to enhance care through evidence based knowledge.
Demonstrate professional development relevant to the specific care group.

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).