Community Mental Health Duty Practitioner

Sussex Partnership Nhs Foundation Trust; Hastings; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Hastings seeks a Registered Practitioner to support adults with complex mental health needs within the Specialist Adults Service. The role involves clinical support, urgency response, and collaboration with families and agencies. Candidates must demonstrate strong decision-making and communication skills, possess relevant registration, and have a commitment to ongoing professional development. The organization promotes flexible working to support a healthy work-life balance, offering various benefits including training opportunities and well-being programs.

Benefits

Access to wellbeing and support programmes

Excellent supervision programmes

Flexible working patterns

Reimbursed parking

Child care vouchers

NHS discount schemes

Generous holiday entitlement

NHS Pension contributions

Qualifications

• Registered Practitioner with relevant mental health/LD/Adult/Social Work/OT qualifications.
• Completion of mentorship or equivalent course.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Responding to clinical support needs and urgent work.
• Liaising with families and other agencies for support.
• Working autonomously while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Strong decision making skills

Communication skills

Clinical skills

Education

Registered Practitioner with current registration

Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent

Evidence of continuous professional development

Job description

We're looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we're proud to make a difference every day. At SPFT we put people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You'll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development. We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it's part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we'll explore what works for you and the role. We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you. We're shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve.

The Specialist Adults Service is a team supporting adults with complex mental health needs. Your role will involve responding to clinical support needs, urgent work and reviews referred into Duty. You will be working with individuals with complex needs, liaising with their families and other agencies to support recovery and manage risk. You will need to possess strong decision making, communication and clinical skills and be able to work under some pressure. The ability to work autonomously will be a requirement, however you will be supported by a team of multidisciplinary colleagues on a daily basis and have access to decision making forums within the team where further discussions are required. You will be joining a warm, friendly, highly supportive team of dedicated colleagues who work together to offer the best possible service to the people we support.

• Registered Practitioner with current registration (mental health/LD/Adult/Social Work/OT), appropriate to the job role
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development, Successful candidates are normally appointed to the bottom of the pay scale unless previous NHS experience in a similar role can be evidenced.
  If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding Specialist Adults Mental Health Team in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you.

As a practitioner in our team we can offer you: Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development Flexible working patterns Reimbursed parking Child care vouchers Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars) A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC Generous holiday entitlement (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays NHS Pension contributions 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, 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.