Mental Health Practitioner

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Woodbridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service provider in England seeks a dedicated Mental Health Practitioner for a 12-month full-time opportunity. The role involves leading treatment for service users experiencing acute mental health issues within a community setting. Candidates must be registered nurses, occupational therapists or social workers with relevant experience. The position offers regular supervision and a strong focus on professional development, ensuring you have the resources to thrive in your role.

Benefits

Regular clinical supervision

Ongoing training and development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience managing a community caseload for mental health services.
• Ability to complete complex assessments including risk management.
• Familiarity with NICE guidelines and Mental Health Act.

Responsibilities

• Lead professional for an assigned community caseload.
• Develop collaborative care and support plans with service users.
• Engage in multi-disciplinary team meetings and reflective practice.

Skills

Compassionate care

Multi-agency collaboration

Person-centred treatment

Education

Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker

Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training or equivalent

Job description

Are you a compassionate, dedicated and motivated Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist who holds a current professional registration and always puts people at the heart of everything you do?

Are you a professional who enjoys working as part of a 'can do' and forward-thinking team as well as embracing the challenge of working autonomously?

EIP Suffolk are currently offering a 12 month fixed term / secondment full time opportunity for a Band 6 AfC Mental Health Practitioner to join our specialist team in East Suffolk.

Previous experience of working with Psychosis within a community setting would be advantageous but not essential.

If you hold an interest in Early Intervention in Psychosis we look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

As a practitioner you will be able to demonstrate a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach to working with our service users and their families. The role includes multi-agency working alongside the family, local acute care services, primary care sector, social care, education, employment and voluntary services to ensure the service users needs are best met.

As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of individuals who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis, working collaboratively with their families and other supporting agencies to effectively address needs utilising the National Mental Health Framework to manage an assigned community caseload.

Alongside our experienced team you will deliver bespoke and timely interventions to our service users, aged 14 - 65 years, and their families in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention Services.

EIP Suffolk offers regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice both as 1:1 and group sessions. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We will offer you a full EIP induction program.

We are confident that being part of our team would enable you to be the practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. This role will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference, whilst having the much wider Trust network across Suffolk.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job responsibilities

To act as Lead Professional to an assigned community caseload. To develop collaborative care and support plans with service users and /their families.To ensure care and support plans are reviewed by the treating team on a regular basis - to include patient voice through completion of routine outcome measures for both EIP and our Trust.To work alongside colleagues to ensure treatment / support interventions are delivered in a timely fashion to service users and their families / Carers.To work alongside colleagues to maintain our National 2 week access and waiting time standard. To engage with service duty system rota as assigned.To ensure completion of complex assessments inclusive of risk assessment and management plans.To engage with psychologically focused formulation (5 P's) and plan / deliver Brief Psychological Interventions as part of a structured therapy programme.To engage and contribute to all team / service clinical meetings - weekly MDT; team formulation; morning huddles.To engage with all supervision forums as available : Managerial supervision on a monthly basis; Clinical supervision groups on a monthly basis; Team reflective practice on a monthly basis.To engage with and contribute to EIP Suffolk service developments, quality improvement projects and evaluation.To engage with research projects that maybe available across EIP Suffolk; the Trust or National EIP community.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)

Experience

• Experience of managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs
• Experience of completing complex assessments inclusive of risk assessment, formulation and management planning
• Experience in working in a multidisciplinary team delivering person centred treatment packages
• Experience working in the specific area

Knowledge

• An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government initiative)
• Up to date knowledge of legal and ethical frameworks including Mental Health Act.

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.