Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Bury Saint Edmunds, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Description

Job summary

Are you a compassionate, dedicated and motivated Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist who holds a current professional registration and always puts people at the heart of everything you do?

Are you a professional who enjoys working as part of a 'can do' and forward-thinking team as well as embracing the challenge of working autonomously?

Suffolk Early Intervention in Psychosis Service is currently looking to recruit a full time Band 6 AfC Mental Health Practitioner to join our highly skilled and experienced team delivering bespoke and timely interventions to our service users, aged years, and their families in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention Services.

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 and Social Recovery at the center of all that we deliver.

We are confident that being part of our team would enable you to be the practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. This role will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference, whilst having the much wider Trust network across Suffolk.

Please note: we would be willing to accept applications for a Band 5 level.

Main duties of the job

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

As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of individuals who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis, working collaboratively with their families and other supporting agencies to effectively address needs utilising Care Programme Approach to manage an assigned community caseload.

EIP Suffolk would consider application from Band 5 practitioners with professional registration who wish to apply this is a great opportunity to work towards an agreed set of competencies leading towards becoming a Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner/Care Coordinator within 18-24 months. You would be supported with supervision and allocated a mentor to assess your development in order for you to meet the objectives for achieving the competencies for Band 6.

About us

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 professional 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.

Job responsibilities

This role will act as a community Care Coordinator for individuals experiencing their First Episode of Psychosis. Good level of working knowledge of CPA, mental health legislation and multidisciplinary team / across pathway working is essential.

This will include working with Carers / family to promote Recovery and reduce potential relapse.

You will promote hope and reduce stigma surrounding psychosis in everything you do in line with EIP philosophy and ethos.

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 to ensure enhancement of appropriate and evidenced-based services for the people we engage with.

You will enhance / develop skills, knowledge and experience in all aspects of NICE quality standards interventions for EIP

Qualifications

Essential

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Knowledge

Essential

Desirable

Skills

Essential

Desirable