Mental Health Practitioner

NHS; Norwich; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Mental Health Practitioner in North East Norfolk, contributing to community recovery efforts. You'll provide holistic support, engage with service users, and work in a multi-disciplinary team. With a focus on professional development, this role offers a supportive environment and numerous benefits including generous annual leave and NHS discounts.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression

27 days annual leave increasing to 33

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Ability to travel independently.
• Experience in CPA implementation.
• Has worked within an MDT setting.

Responsibilities

• Holding a caseload of non-complex service users.
• Offering holistic support and monitoring for service users and carers.
• Administration of depot medication (if a Registered Nurse).

Skills

Compassion

Empathy

Sensitivity

Education

Valid registration with NMC

Mentorship qualification

Job description

We are recruiting a Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Team in North East Norfolk

We want to recruit Practitioners who can join our trust and established Community Team; bringing with them fresh ideas and fresh ambition. We would welcome applications from newly qualified Practitioners and will support them through their preceptorship process and future development within the team.

Our Trust values of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what this role encompasses.

You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users.We are looking for someone who displays compassion, empathy and sensitivity in your approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging manner.

In return we offer a supportive multi-disciplinary team environment where you will be encouraged to develop your own knowledge of psychosocial interventions and positive health promotion, with first-hand experience of engaging service users.

Main duties of the job

Our primary focus is on collaborative working; placing great emphasis on recovery.

Many aspects relating to service user recovery is reflected within the assessment tools the patients and staff use and the philosophy that underpins patient centred care.

Main duties of this role include:

Holding a caseload of non-complex service Users

Offering holistic support and monitoring for service users and carers

Administration of depot medication (if you are a Registered Nurse)

Attending weekly team meetings, regular reflective practice sessions and case formulations

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you!

Benefits included with this role are:-

• 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)
• NHS discounts and many more.

We are working hard to maintain usual recruitment process however please be aware that we may ask you to be interviewed via MS Teams rather than in person. Please also bear with us as we endeavour to recruit as many people as we can in unprecedented times.

Job 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!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Valid registration with NMC or Professional Registration with Health Care Professionals Council
• Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.

Other

• Ability to travel independently

Experience

• CPA implementation
• Experience in appropriate area
• Has worked within an MDT setting

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.

£29,970 to £36,483 a yeargross per annum