Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner

NHS; Stowmarket; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Stowmarket is seeking a dedicated Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse to improve the lives of young people and their families. This role offers the chance to work within a collaborative team, providing care tailored to individual needs. Responsibilities include risk assessment, case management, and promoting reflective practice. The organization values professional development and offers extensive training opportunities within a compassionate work environment.

Benefits

NHS pension

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression opportunities

27 days starting annual leave

Staff physiotherapy service

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker with relevant registration required.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of mental health practice.
• Experience in delivering clinical interventions and managing risks.

Responsibilities

• Undertake assessments of young people collaboratively with families.
• Manage and assess risks effectively.
• Provide clinical and management supervision.
• Contribute to the development of care pathways for young adults.

Skills

Knowledge of mental health practice

Effective risk assessment

Clinical intervention experience

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker

Practice Supervisor training

Job description

Job summary

Our Children, Family & Young People Services across Suffolk are seeking dedicatedSenior Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join their existing team.

We have opportunities throughout our services, and want to hear from passionate individuals who share our values.

We are confident that being part of CFYP Suffolk would enable you to be the Registered Mental Health Practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. Joining our team will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference.

Ideally you'll have experience and skills in working with young adults and their families. Our dedicated team is compassionate and responsive. There are processes to review our work, to develop areas of good practice, therapeutic skills and support learning and development of staff.

Mental Health has never been more in the public eye and now more than ever our profession needs to adapt and change to meet the changing needs of our patients and the evolving health and social care integrated systems.

As a secondary mental health workforce, we need to build upon and diversify our compassionate and inclusive leadership when delivering high quality care and diversify into new roles.

If you'd like the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, intriguing role then we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

We recognise that qualified staff make up one of the largest proportion of our workforce and we value the expertise and professionalism that you will bring.

Managing and assessing risk is a large part of our role and as a team we robustly make decisions in complete collaboration with all systems.

As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of young people, working collaboratively with families and other supporting agencies to manage needs, as well as holding a caseload and undertaking duty.

You can expect regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development, you'll be providedwith a full induction program and access to extensive training and career development.

We are committed to formulation and ensuring that the pathway of the young person is based on the biosocial model of care and that the voice of the young adult is heard and validated throughout their episode of care.

We are seeking a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach with our service users, their families and their network.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us?

We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk?

The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job details

Details Date posted

08 Rhagfyr 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year gross per annum/pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-ESU7644419

Job locations

Haymills House

Station Road East

Stowmarket

IP14 1RQ

Job description & 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!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• 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.

Interview dates are yet to be set; 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.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

For informal discussions or observational visits to the team please contact Community Matron, Emma Ellis.

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)

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
• Experience in delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

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)

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Haymills House

Station Road East

Stowmarket

IP14 1RQ

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)