Mental Health Practitioner - Band 6

Integrated Care System; Stowmarket; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse to join their dedicated team working with young adults. This role offers the opportunity to promote recovery through comprehensive assessments and collaborative care. Applicants should possess a nursing degree and relevant experience, with a commitment to compassionate and needs-led approaches. Enjoy extensive training, career progression, and generous annual leave in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive in-house & external training programmes

Career progression

Annual leave starting at 27 days, increasing to 33 days

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health practice and effective risk management.
• Demonstrated ability in supporting service development.
• Experience with person-centred treatment and delivering group interventions.

Responsibilities

• Manage and assess risks, collaborate with families and agencies.
• Conduct assessments of young people and maintain a caseload.
• Provide supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice.

Skills

Mental health practice knowledge

Risk assessment

Clinical interventions

Team collaboration

Group-based interventions

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent

Mentorship qualification or ENB 998

Job description

Our Suffolk Central Youth Serviceare seeking dedicatedSeniorRegistered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers or Occupational Therapiststo join their existing team. This is working with the age group of 18 - 25.

We are confident that being part of the East Suffolk Locality, within the youth pathway would enable you to be the Registered Mental Health Practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. Joining our team will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference and promote recovery and change.

Ideally, you'll have experience and skills in working with young adults and their families. Our dedicated team is compassionate and responsive. There are processes to review our work, to develop areas of good practice, therapeutic skills and support learning and development of staff.

Mental Health has never been more in the public eye and now more than ever our profession needs to adapt and change to meet the changing needs of our patients and the evolving health and social care integrated systems. This post will offer you a range of opportunities to work with other colleagues and specialist teams from a range of services both internally and externally.

As a secondary mental health workforce, we need to build upon and diversify our compassionate and inclusive leadership when delivering high quality care and diversify into new roles.

If you'd like the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, intriguing role then we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

We recognise that qualified staff make up one of the largest proportion of our workforce and we value the expertise and professionalism that you will bring.

Managing and assessing risk is a large part of our role and as a team we robustly make decisions in complete collaboration with all systems.

As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of young people, working collaboratively with families and other supporting agencies to manage needs, as well as holding a caseload and undertaking duty.

You can expect regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development, you'll be providedwith a full induction program and access to extensive training and career development.

We are committed to formulation and ensuring that the pathway of the young person is based on the biosocial model of care and that the voice of the young adult is heard and validated throughout their episode of care.

We are seeking a warm, compassionate, and needs-led approach with our service users, their families and their network.

About us

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.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• 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.

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!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become a sign off mentor

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience in delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
• Experience in delivering group based interventions
• Experience in supporting service development

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.

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