Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner - Norwich, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

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    Description

    Job summary

    The post holder will undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multiagency environment.Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs.Support and advising to other health care professionals. To support aspects of service 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 serviceson transfer of ensure the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team.

    Main duties of the job

    Are you a highly motivated, passionate, and skilled Mental Health Nurse, Looking for a new challenge. Do you believe in keeping Service Users and Carers at the heart of everything you do? Are you interested in developing your leadership skills whilst in a clinical role? Would you like to work in well supported, dynamic, enthusiastic recovery focused team?

    You will be responsible for the assessment, planning, review and delivery of care and treatment in conjunction with the service users on your capped caseload.

    About us

    Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

    Benefits

    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
  • Job description

    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

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
  • Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
  • Desirable

  • Good to great management course, or equivalent
  • Experience

    Essential

  • Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
  • Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
  • Desirable

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

    Essential

  • Able to travel independently