Senior Mental Health Practitioner

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

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking compassionate mental health professionals, including Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, and Mental Health Nurses, to join a dynamic team. This role focuses on supporting adults in crisis and involves working both in community settings and home environments. Ideal candidates will have strong decision-making skills and relevant professional qualifications. Join a supportive team dedicated to making a positive impact in mental health care.

Benefits

NHS pension

Career progression

27 days annual leave increasing to 33 days

Comprehensive training programmes

Staff physio service

Qualifications

• Registered with relevant professional registration.
• Ongoing professional development towards degree level.
• Experience in delivering person-centred treatment packages.

Responsibilities

• Provide triage, assessment and intensive support.
• Work with service users in crisis to facilitate recovery.
• Maintain professional standards and foster team relationships.

Skills

Complex decision-making skills

Effective risk assessment

Ability to communicate professionally

Experience in clinical interventions

Education

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

Job description

Job overview

Are you an experienced mental health professional looking to utilise your clinical skills in a different and rewarding environment?

The Suffolk Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) based in East Suffolk, predominantly at Ipswich Hospital, Woodlands Unit are seeking ambitious and caring Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Mental Health Nurses to join our existing team at an exciting time.

The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team are proactive and highly skilled at managing risk and supporting service users in East Suffolk who are presenting in crisis. The CRHTT service is an age inclusive provision covering a diverse and multicultural patient base. We are passionate about providing alternative options to hospital admissions, so you can expect to be undertaking rewarding and highly intensive work.

We are looking to recruit compassionate, dedicated, and conscientious individuals, who want to make a positive difference to adults experiencing mental distress and mental health crisis.

Staff provide care, treatment, and assessment to patients both at our base location, in their own homes and other places of safety, getting you out and about seeing patients in a range of community settings.

If you enjoy working with high-risk cases, are looking to develop as an autonomous, confident practitioner, then we’d love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

We are the ‘front-door’ to acute services, providing triage, assessment, intensive support, and alternative to admission hand in hand with support of families and other third-party providers.

The team also works with service users already in hospital to ensure that they can be supported at home at the earliest opportunity to support their recovery.

Communication is key, and we are currently in a period of significant positive change and growth within the team. We are therefore looking for someone who can communicate in a professional manner with a wide spectrum of people to achieve the best outcome for our service users and their families/supporters.

We are looking for someone who has exceptional complex decision-making skills. The team requires you to work autonomously whilst maintaining professional standards and fostering good working relationships across teams.

The usual shift pattern is long days, 3-4 shifts per week, with 4 days off, and we can offer the opportunity to rotate if this is something of particular interest. CRHT delivers patient care twenty-four hours a day. Shift working is in place to ensure this service is delivered.

Working for our organisation

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.

When you join us, you can expect to be supported in building your competence in assessment, there will be a Trust based induction and further local induction process where a core competency framework supports you to develop your assessment skills, using evidence-based practice at its core.

Why work for us? As a Trust we have had our challenges, however we 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. The Trust aspire and are continually developing our service provisions to improve our care delivery, whilst we work together as one team, for a Safer, Kinder and Better Trust.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for a challenge and do you want to make a difference to the people that we care for? If you answered yes to these questions, this could be the ideal role for you.

In return for your individual skills and knowledge, we are fully committed to assisting you to meet your professional development needs and enabling you to provide high standards of care, in a supportive environment.

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Applicant information and further details are available on request.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

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

Experience

Essential criteria

• 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

Desirable criteria

• Experience in delivering group based interventions
• Experience in supporting service development

Other

Essential criteria

• Able to travel independently

Details for applicants

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