Assistant Practitioner - Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust

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Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust.

We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we'd love you to join us

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Job overview:

Assistant Practitioner

There are endless opportunities available, and we are keen to welcome new faces to join our team on a permanent basis.

We understand that to attract the best people, we need to develop career pathways and support staff to reach their full potential.

We are keen to support development opportunities and pathways, such as:

DBT Training
CAPS Training
CBT in Psychosis.
And much more

Does this sound like something you could be interested in? Let's talk about what opportunities are available to match your skills and experience

Main duties of the job:

Working in a busy and dynamic Adult Community Mental Health Team means every day will be different.

You will be involved in:

Managing a (capped) caseload for those under The Care Programme Approach
Undertaking initial urgent/routine assessments on behalf of the service
Attending multidisciplinary team meetings with our Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurse Consultants, Clinical Team Managers, Senior Practitioners, Assistant Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals including Consultant Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists
Attending outpatient clinic appointments
Undertaking face to face visits in the community setting including home visits
Working with service users and their families/carers to care plan holistic goal setting and engage in treatment planning and working in collaboration with internal/external stakeholders
Medication administration (if qualified to do so) with opportunities to enrol in local university training programmes in medication management
We also works with needs types and have many evidence based work books to enhance the Service user experience.

Working for our organisation:

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.

Join our Community Adult Mental Health Service based in Bury St Edmunds.

We are currently going through an exciting transformation working closely with our Primary care colleagues and working towards aligning our team with our local GP practices.

Our Trust vales of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what this role encompasses.

If you have the right values to join our organisation, you will be supported with a programme of training and development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users.

We are looking for someone who displays compassion, empathy, and sensitivity in your approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging presentation.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

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