Associate Practitioner

Eput; Braintree; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday + bank holidays

Pension (NHS)

Staff discounts

Relocation package

Season ticket loans

Job summary

EPUT's Gables Specialist Mental Health Team in Essex seeks a Band 4 Associate Practitioner to lead physical health clinics and support mental health care. You will contribute to risk assessment, care planning and multidisciplinary work with clinical teams across Essex and parts of Bedfordshire.

The role requires current Associate Practitioner/Nursing Associate registration and at least one year at this level.

Qualifications

• Qualified as Associate Practitioner or Nursing Associate
• Minimum 1 year at this level
• Experience in mental health settings
• Experience running a physical health clinic

Responsibilities

• Lead and run the physical health clinics
• Support clozapine and depot clinics as required
• Support the duty service on a rota
• Organise and follow up on clinical outcomes after assessments
• Provide healthy lifestyle and health promotion advice
• Assist senior clinicians with risk assessment and care planning
• Identify safeguarding concerns and escalate when needed

Skills

Care Coordination

Clozapine and depot clinics

Physical health clinic

Occupational Therapy

Social Work tasks

Education

Associate Practitioner or Nursing Associate qualification

Tools

Clinical clinics

Job description

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Please be aware that, due to current allocation constraints, Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are being prioritised for registered roles at this time.

Our Trust cares for more than 100,000 patients at any one time across our community health, mental health and learning disability services across Essex and parts of Bedfordshire and Suffolk.

We want you to be part of our journey of transformation, where our patients and their families are at the heart of everything we do and to achieve our vision to be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care.

You’ll be part of a Trust where you will be supported to be your authentic self and be the best you can be, where we will help you to grow, develop and thrive.

The Trust is recognised by the University of Essex and is a top provider of apprenticeships for people looking to be an assistant practitioner, senior health care support worker (CAP). Our trailblazing CAP apprenticeship won a national HSJ Award.

We are also recognised as a Veteran Aware Trust and holder of gold accreditation from the Ministry of Defence Employment Recognition Scheme. Our services are highlighted as an exemplar of good practice, producing the best care for more than 3.500 armed forces veterans in the past seven years.

We have been shortlisted and won national awards. We are an inclusive organisation and Level 3 Disability Confident Leader Trust.

We are constantly innovating and looking for new ways to deliver care, such as using technology to enhance patient care and working with partners to launch new services such as the Basildon Mental Health Urgent Care Department, virtual hospitals and falls response cars.

Join us and you’ll do the best work of your life – and make a difference to other people’s lives. What we do together, matters.

Job overview

The Gables Specialist Mental Health Team is a community mental health services that covers the areas of Braintree and Maldon in Essex. The team are responsible for the care and treatment for patients with a mental health condition and who present with risks that require a Multi-Disciplinary Team who require intervention and support.

Core functions of the team include:

• Care Coordination
• Clozapine and depot clinics
• Physical health clinic
• Occupational Therapy
• Social Work tasks under the Care Act 2014

Main duties of the job

The Band 4 Associate Practitioner role is a mixture of clinical tasks, administrative tasks and other roles that support the functioning of the Specialist Mental Health Team, including but not limited to:

• Leading and running the physical health clinics
• Providing support to the clozapine and depot clinics where required
• Supporting the teams duty service on a rota
• Organising and following up on clinical outcomes following assessments
• Provide healthy lifestyle advice, and health promotion advice
• Assisting senior clinicians in the assessment and management of risk or to carry out care planned interventions
• Identify possible safeguarding concerns and take appropriate action through escalation of concerns

Working for our organisation

Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
• Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see full Job Description and Person Specification documents for all details regarding the role being advertised.

Qualifications

• Holds current qualification for Associate Practitioner or Nursing Associate
• 1 or more years working at this level

Experience

• Previous work within a mental health setting
• Previous work running a physical health clinic

Please be aware that, due to current allocation constraints, Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are being prioritised for registered roles at this time.
Important note: please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [e-mail] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.

Note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered 'suitable alternative employment' to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.