Lead Practitioner, East Neighbourhood Mental Health Team

Integrated Care System; Brighton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant multidisciplinary team in Brighton as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker. Embrace an exciting opportunity to provide high-quality care and support to adults with complex mental health needs. This role offers professional development, flexible working options, and a £2,000 Golden Hello incentive.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with current registration.
• Completion of a Mentorship Course.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Support individual recovery goals through collaborative work.
• Provide clinical interventions to people in the designated care group.
• Conduct clinical assessments including risk assessments.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Collaboration

Clinical assessment

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Mentorship Course completed

Job description

The East Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT) is a lively multi-disciplinary community based team. We provide specialist assessment, treatment and care to working age adults with severe mental illness, based at Brighton General Hospital.

We are looking for a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with existing experience and knowledge of supporting adults with complex mental health conditions.

This is an exciting time for community mental health services as we transform to a new, integrated, neighbourhood model with our primary care and voluntary sector partners. We are looking for innovative practitioners who can embrace the new model and put it into practice.

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 successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within a service which prides itself on its commitment and provision of high-quality care. This will be a challenging and very busy role, but one which will be very rewarding.

A passion for working with people to support individual recovery goals and to work collaboratively with the service users, their carers, colleagues within the third sector, GPs and the wider mental health service within the Trust is essential.

About us

We welcome applications from practitioners who are highly motivated, resilient, enthusiastic, creative, flexible, and resourceful.

You will receive high quality supervision, support and training to further develop your skills and experience in a community mental health setting.

The service operates Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm. Although, we understand the importance of work/life balance and would welcome discussions around flexible working arrangements as required.

Brighton and Hove is a vibrant and exciting place to live and work offering a lively city life with the opportunity to get away from it all to the South Downs National park just on the doorstep.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the roles and responsibilities for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental health Nurse Occupational Therapist or Social worker with current registration
• Completion of Mentorship Course
• 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 providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
• 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.