Senior Mental Health Practitioner

NSFT Jobs; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Relocation packages

In-house & external training programs

Career progression

27 days annual leave increasing to 33

Staff physio service

Job summary

NSFT invites applications for a substantive Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner within the Coastal Adult CMHT. The post is based in East Ipswich and covers East Ipswich through to Felixstowe, Leiston and Aldeburgh, offering a recovery‑focussed, multi‑disciplinary service for service users and carers.

You will be a qualified professional with community experience, acting as Care Coordinator/Assessor, contributing to meetings, planning care, and delivering appropriate, patient‑centred

Qualifications

• Qualified health or social care professional with community experience.
• Experience in care coordination and assessment.
• Ability to work independently within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Work with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team.
• Undertake initial assessments.
• Liaise with statutory and voluntary sectors.
• Contribute to meetings within the service and wider networks.
• Plan and organise daily workload with effective personal management.
• Flexibly manage working time to meet service demands.
• Provide high quality care and manage a patient caseload.
• Initiate and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers.

Skills

Care coordination

Assessment

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Community mental health

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Social Worker

Occupational Therapist

Job description

We currently have a substantive Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner post within Coastal Adult CMHT open to applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists. The team is based in East Ipswich and covers the area from East Ipswich through to rural areas of Felixstowe, Leiston and Aldeburgh. We are a recovery focussed, multi-disciplinary team providing an effective, supportive, and professional service for our Services users and Carers.

You will be a qualified professional with experience of supporting people and their families, preferably in the community. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of your role as a Care Coordinator/Assessor and join our dedicated multidisciplinary team working closely with a range of partners to provide appropriate community interventions for those individuals referred to the team.

We are looking for people to join us to continue to build on an already successful service.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge, and experience.

Every individual makes a valuable contribution in the team. We are proud of our staff, and we are looking for people to join us in continuing to develop what the service of Coastal CMHT looks like.

You can expect a manageable case load and a supportive management team to ensure you’re able to work independently but support is never far away if needed.

The Typical Job Roles And Responsibilities Will Include

• Working with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team.
• Undertake initial assessments.
• Liaise with statutory and voluntary sectors
• The successful candidate will be an integral part of this team. You will contribute to meetings both within the service and in wider networks.
• Effective personal planning and organisation of daily workload.
• Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands.
• Managing and providing a high quality of care.
• Managing a case load of patient that have a range of mental health needs.
• Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred.
• Participating in the duty rota
• Practicing in line with policy, guidance and legislation.
• Carrying out risk assessment, crisis and safety planning.
• Working closely with the ACS mental health team to support our patients, meeting both their mental health needs and their Care Act needs.
• To support patients in being discharged back to primary care.

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, and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with 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.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• 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)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more
• Relocation packages.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Adrian Matthews Job title: Clinical Team Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01473 279200

Christopher Salter (Non-Medical Prescriber) 01473 279200