Lead Practitioner, Neighbourhood Mental Health Team

NHS; Brighton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

The East Neighbourhood Mental Health Team at Brighton General Hospital is seeking a qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker. This role involves providing specialist assessment and treatment to adults with severe mental illness, contributing to a new community model of care that emphasizes collaboration and high-quality service delivery.

Benefits

£2,000 Golden Hello

Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners

High-quality supervision and training

Qualifications

• Registered qualification in nursing, occupational therapy, or social work.
• Significant post-qualifying experience in mental health.
• Experience supervising staff in a clinical setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care and support for recovery goals.
• Collaborate with service users, carers, and health professionals.
• Manage clinical interventions for diverse health problems.

Skills

Collaboration

Resilience

Communication

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker

Completion of Mentorship Course

Evidence of continuous professional development

Job description

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Job summary

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 see the attached Job Description document for full details on the role and responsibilities. Please contact Dominic Ison for any further information on [e-mail]

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 working consultatively with professionals

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.