Group Treatment Practitioner Neighbourhood Mental Health Services

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Worthing; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A health trust in Worthing is seeking a Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist to join the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team. This role involves facilitating psychoeducational groups and managing a clinical caseload for patients with complex needs. The successful candidate will have a lead role in referrals and daily service operations, offering support across various community sites. The position offers a competitive compensation package including a £2,000 Golden Hello or relocation incentive and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Access to psychological support

Excellent supervision programmes

Free on-site parking

Discount schemes

Outstanding CQC rating

NHS Pension

Generous holiday entitlement

Qualifications

• Registered Occupational Health Therapist with current registration required.
• Completion of Mentorship Course or equivalent.
• Continuous professional development evidenced.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate psychoeducational and creative groups.
• Manage referrals and daily running of the service.
• Maintain a clinical caseload of service users.

Skills

Group facilitation

Clinical assessment

Supervision

Mental health support

Evidence-based practice

Education

Registered Occupational Health Therapist

Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent

Continuous professional development

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with Group Treatment Experience to join the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Worthing, covering the coastal area.

Group Treatment Service in Arun, Adur and Worthing, is integrating into the Neighbourhood Mental Health Services as part of an exciting transformation. This role will be based in Worthing, but will be offering Group Interventions to patients in the neighbouring community services in Littlehampton and Shoreham. The role will delivers groups alongside 1:1 sessions for clients in secondary care.

The service provides a psychoeducational group program offering transdiagnostic interventions supporting patients with their recovery.

This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational and creative groups.

The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals to the GTS as well as supporting the daily running of the service across three sites.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for assessing patients (which includes assessment for suitability for the group treatment programme), and providing individual therapeutic interventions to support the group work.

You will be in charge of facilitating groups and managing your own clinical case load, you will also have Lead Practitioner responsibility. This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills in working within a psychological framework, and facilitating and developing groups. The group treatment role provides an excellent supervision package to facilitate this learning.

This role will require you to process referrals and manage the team on a day to day basis. You will have supervision responsibilities and need to liaise with colleagues in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams.

About us

Group Treatment Service is based in Worthing but offers interventions across the coastal patch, including: Adur, Arun and Worthing NMHT's. The post holder will sometimes be required to travel across sites.

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

• Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Free parking on-site
• Access to a host of discount schemes
• A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC
• Excellent NHS Pension
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)

Job responsibilities

This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational and creative groups.

The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals to the Group Treatment Programme and manage the daily running of the service at this site.

You will also hold a caseload of service users with complex needs and will be expected to use evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan and evaluate interventions.

You will take part in staff development, training and supervisions, and a responsibility to supervise and support your team members.

You will need to be an experienced, reflective and enthusiastic practitioner, committed to working in a reflective team with a broad range of experience in the following: working with clients with complex mental health difficulties and their carers, facilitating groups, supervising staff, working within a psychological framework including formulation and using psychological interventions.

Qualifications

• Registered Occupational Health Therapist with current registration
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

• Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of managing a caseload
• Experience of planning, facilitating and developing group work
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Previous experience of working in the community

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.