Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner

Sussex Partnership Nhs Foundation Trust; United States; Hybrid; USD 43,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) to deliver rapid assessment and brief treatments within a primary care setting. You will work with VCS and NMHT colleagues to ensure joined-up care and provide 1:1, group, and digital interventions for adults with mild to moderate mental health needs.

The role requires UK registration (NMC or HCPC) and experience in mental health services, with flexible and hybrid working options and opportunities for

Qualifications

• Qualified Nurse or Allied Health Professional with NMC or HCPC registration.
• Experience in rapid assessment, signposting and brief treatment.
• Experience in primary care setting advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide rapid and responsive triage, assessment, signposting and brief treatment (1:1, group based and digital platforms).
• Embed mental health expertise in a primary care setting.
• Offer advice and consultation to VCS colleagues, manage complexity and risk, and conduct clinical assessments.

Skills

Mental health experience

Clinical assessment skills

Risk assessment

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

UK professional registration (NMC/HCPC)

Job description

As we work towards our goal of providing an integrated service across primary and secondary care, our community mental health services are being transformed to recognise the changes in how people want to access them. We need to support those who have experienced barriers to accessing services which support their mental health, due, the complexity of their needs, or the configuration of our services., You will work as a Primary Care MHP ensuring: 1. Patients with mild to moderate mental health need access the most appropriate treatment for their mental health difficulty through delivery of rapid and responsive triage, assessment, signposting and brief treatment (1:1, group based and digital platforms). 2. The embedding of mental health expertise in a primary care setting. Working alongside VCS and NMHT colleagues to ensure a holistic, joined up approach for patients with mild-moderate and stable, severe mental health needs, ensuring the most appropriate pathway according to presenting need. You will provide advice and consultation to VCS colleagues in managing issues of complexity and risk, as well as clinical assessment, signposting and brief treatment (1:1 and / or group based) to individuals referred to the clinical element of the service by VCS colleagues within the MDT. Covid-19 full vaccination may be a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.
We are seeking practitioners with experience of providing rapid and responsive assessment, signposting and brief treatments to join us at this exciting time as a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (MHP). You will be a qualified Nurse or Allied Health Professional, with the relevant professional registration (NMC, HCPC).,

• A qualified Nurse or Allied Health Professional, with the relevant professional registration (NMC or HCPC)
• Motivated by developing a newly created role, within a new service provision
• Experienced working within a mental health setting

It would also be advantageous if you are:

• Experienced working in a Primary Care setting, Registered Mental Health qualification or equivalent
• Include relevant professional registration, Extensive post-qualifying experience of clinical work with people with a range of mental health problems
• Experience of partnership working within and across various different statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
• Experience in working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of providing low intensity psychological interventions including, provision of self help, behavioural activation, solution focused, guided self help, and a CBT informed approach using a range of delivery models, telephone, face to face , individual and workshops
• Experienced in conducting clinical assessments, including risk assessments, Successful candidates are normally appointed to the bottom of the pay scale unless previous NHS experience in a similar role can be evidenced., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  At SPFT we put people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You'll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.

Benefits

• We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it's part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we'll explore what works for you and the role. We recognise that tools like AI are becoming part of everyday life and you may choose to use them when preparing your application. We welcome this, as long as what you submit reflects your own experience, skills and voice. AI can be helpful for structuring or refining your answers, but it should not replace your own examples or create content that isn't based on your real experience. Our recruitment process is designed to get to know you, and we'll explore your examples further at interview, so it's important your application genuinely represents what you bring. You can read more about using AI in applications and interviews on our recruitment process page. We're shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we'd love to hear from you.
• Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen. We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results

• 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
• 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles