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

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust

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Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom

2 weeks 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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YOUR APPLICATION

Job overview:

Are you a Qualified Assistant Practitioner who has experience of working in Mental Health Services or would aspire to complete this professional development training?

Do you have an appetite for challenges, a mind for accepting and implementing creative concepts?

Do you hold with the values and beliefs in line with the 'Recovery' model and ways of working within mental health and are passionate about improving outcomes for individuals experiencing a first episode of psychosis and their families?

Are you someone who wants a true career in Mental Health Care, with a forward thinking Trust and dedicated team supporting you?

If you answer yes to all of the above then this is the post for you

Main duties of the job:

Previous experience of working with Psychosis within a community setting would be advantageous but not essential.

You will be working alongside a dedicated group of professionals who hold the service user, family, Carers and Social Recovery at the center of all that we deliver.

As an Associate Practitioner you will be able to demonstrate a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach to working with our service users and their families.

You will have good engagement skills and have proven ability to build therapeutic relationships.

The role includes multi-agency working alongside the family, local acute care services, primary care sector, social care, education, employment and voluntary services to ensure the service users needs are best met.

Working for our organisation:

The service offers regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice both as 1:1 and group sessions.

We hold a strong belief in team and individual development.

We will offer you a full EIP induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.

As a service we aspire to ensuring service user and family participation throughout our service expansion to ensure enhancement of appropriate and evidenced-based services for the people we engage with.

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.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

To work 1:1 or in groups with individuals experiencing their First Episode of Psychosis. This will include the provision of support to their families and Carers.
To create, develop and facilitate support groups using own initiative to make progress. To undertake clinical interventions utilising a variety of therapeutic models.
To plan, manage and prioritise own workload as allocated by Case Manager/Registered Practitioner taking into account service user need.
To develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with partner organisations, service users, carers and clinicians as well as other practitioners within the multi disciplinary team.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

Essential criteria:

Care certificate or relevant equivalent.
Evidence of ongoing study / training appropriate to mental health setting

Desirable criteria:

Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care / Mental Health at L5 Apprenticeship in H&SC / Mental Health L5 or willingness to complete this
Degree in Psychology with Graduate Basis for Registration with the BPS

Experience:

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