Assistant Practitioner Waveney Adult Community - Lowestoft, United Kingdom - Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Are you a qualified Assistant Practitioner looking to join a team of dynamic and caring professionals and gain experience working within a community mental health team?
An opportunity has arisen to join the Adult Community Mental Health Team based at Victoria House, Lowestoft on a 6 month secondment/fixed term contract.
Our dynamic and collaborative team are based at Victoria House, Lowestoft. However the team are required to travel across all of Waveney to visit service users.
You'll be working alongside a close knit multi-disciplinary team of Assistant Practitioners, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Peer Support Workers, Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, Psychiatrists and Care Support Workers.
We provide a community-based service to Lowestoft and rural Waveney market towns and villages; we have excellent working relationships with external agencies and partners who are all working together to develop recovery-based care plans.
You will work within the NSFT trust values and be able to meet deadlines to ensure that the service is delivered safely and effectively making sure service users obtain the support and care they need in a timely manner.
Our welcoming and collaborative team is recovery focused and works with a mixed caseload of male and female service users, who have complex mental health needs.
We're passionate about career progression, development and uncovering training opportunities - from the moment you join us, you will be supported to learn, develop and progress within your mental health career.
By joining our team, you will be well supported to develop further your knowledge and skills to deliver evidence-based interventions for the group of service users.
Personal development will be supported through meaningful Appraisal and via a bespoke training package (a comprehensive in house & external training programmes).
On a monthly basis you will be offered reflective practice sessions, mandatory clinical supervision, and Line management supervision. You will also have an opportunity to actively take part in Quality improvement projects within the service.There is also opportunities to enrol in local university training programmes in medication management as well as numerous other developmental opportunities.
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.
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
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