Job summary
The West Sussex Wellbeing Service is recruiting to a Band 6 Nursing / OT / Social Work role in its new Primary Care Network (PCN) mental health teams in Burgess Hill and Hayward Heath. The EWS aims to provide GPs with fast access to mental health expertise at the right level, preventing further escalation in need.
The people we work with are usually unable to access IAPT services, but may not meet the threshold for secondary care. We have excellent links to other teams locally to ensure service users move seamless if we aren't best placed to help them. This includes third sector agencies, but also ATS, IAPT, and other SPFT teams.
EWSroles are embedded right in the GP Primary Care Networks (small groups of local GP surgeries in Hayward Heath and Burgess Hill) but benefit from being part of the SPFT family, with excellent training and supervision as standard. This exciting and evolving service integrates closely with voluntary sector partners (Brighton Housing Trust) to provide accessible, high quality clinical consultation, assessment, and one-to-one intervention right on the GP's doorstep.
Main duties of the job
The West Sussex EWS is a developing service presently focussing on flexible, short term one-to-one work. This exciting team offers opportunity and challenge in equal measure to experienced practitioners wanting to be at the forefront of the transformation of West Sussex community mental health services.
Working in the West Sussex EWS, you will encounter people experiencing a range of mental health needs, and as a Band 6 practitioner you will be sufficiently skilled and experienced to triage, 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 (ATS, crisis teams, etc), carers, and voluntary sector networks to make sure people's needs are 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 transition to the right services, and supporting GPs and voluntary sector colleagues to provide safe, evidence-based mental health support. The team supports blended working options within the needs of the service, and of service users.
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)
This post offers a Golden Hello, or a Relocation package up to a maximum of £2000. (pro rata applies and subject to terms and conditions. Please see attached Protocol document).
Job description
Job responsibilities
We would warmly welcome you giving us a call to discuss these exciting roles in advance of your application:
North West Sussex Team Lead : Leanne Hill leanne.hill@spft.nhs.uk 0739 1868460
Clinical Service Manager, West Sussex EWS (Primary Care Network Mental Health Teams): Patricia Mendes patricia.mendes@spft.nhs.uk 07471 031999
We are looking for self-motivated, energetic, and creative clinicians. 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 roles will be important to the transformation of community mental health service in West Sussex, and will help to ensure that gaps in service between GPs, the voluntary sector, and secondary tier services can be bridged. We are therefore looking for practitioners who can build partnerships, and can work flexibly, adaptively, and creatively in growing and developing these locally focussed teams.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We would warmly welcome you giving us a call to discuss these exciting roles in advance of your application:
North West Sussex Team Lead : Leanne Hill leanne.hill@spft.nhs.uk 0739 1868460
Clinical Service Manager, West Sussex EWS (Primary Care Network Mental Health Teams): Patricia Mendes patricia.mendes@spft.nhs.uk 07471 031999
We are looking for self-motivated, energetic, and creative clinicians. 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 roles will be important to the transformation of community mental health service in West Sussex, and will help to ensure that gaps in service between GPs, the voluntary sector, and secondary tier services can be bridged. We are therefore looking for practitioners who can build partnerships, and can work flexibly, adaptively, and creatively in growing and developing these locally focussed teams.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health professional qualification (Must be one of: Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy
- Include relevant professional registration (NMC, SWE, HCPC)
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 professional qualification (Must be one of: Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy
- Include relevant professional registration (NMC, SWE, HCPC)
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).
