Senior MH Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker

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

Job summary

A community health service provider in Lowestoft is seeking a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner. Responsibilities include planning patient care and managing mental health services in a multidisciplinary team. Candidates must be registered nurses, occupational therapists, or social workers, with a strong knowledge of mental health practices and effective risk management. This position offers £38,682 to £46,580 yearly and various professional benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression opportunities

Starting annual leave of 27 days, increasing with service

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Registered and relevant professional registration is mandatory.
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in clinical/therapeutic practice is required.
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level.

Responsibilities

• Plan and delivery of direct patient care within a multidisciplinary environment.
• Manage a caseload for mental health care services.
• Responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients.

Skills

Mental health practice knowledge

Effective risk assessment

Clinical interventions delivery

Teamwork

Group-based interventions

Education

Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse

Occupational Therapist or Social Worker

Higher degree or post graduate certificate

Job description

Senior MH Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker

Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner - Waveney Adult Community Mental Health Team

Waveney Mental Health Team are looking for new Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioners. You will be a qualified professional Nurse,Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with experience of working in the community supporting working age adults with mental health problemsfollowing the Care Programme Approach. The successful candidate will demonstrate a sound understanding of their role as a Care Coordinatorand join our friendly multidisciplinary team of Social Workers, O.T.s and Nurses who are experienced community practitioners. You also will bepart of the triage and assessment process within the team for referrals from the GP surgeries and other services. So, you will need to demonstraterobust and sound assessment skills. Your potential team colleagues are Assistant Practitioners, Peer workers, Psychologists, Psychologicaltherapists, Carer's support, Physical health lead, Employment worker, Psychiatrists and Therapists all ably supported by our admin staff.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with minimal supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• To manage a caseload and the provision of mental health care services to people with mental health care need.
• To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.
• To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.
• To ensure accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team.
• Applicants must hold a full UK driving licence.

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 nursing 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

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!

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

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

• 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)
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

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 the 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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yeargross per annum