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    Community Mental Health Practitioner - Hastings, United Kingdom - Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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    Community Mental Health Practitioner

    Hastings & Rother Assessment & Treatment Service

    Job overview

    Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker with a clear understanding of how coordination of care can contribute to an individual's recovery?

    As a Community Mental Health Practitioner in our service you will be supporting service users with severe and enduring mental health problems and their carers. You will hold a caseload and input to the duty function of the team with other responsibilities dependent on your professional qualification. To be successful you will need to be able to work cohesively with other services both within our Trust and with partner agencies. Caring, compassionate and a good communicator, you will have a commitment to improving the lives of our service users through creative, evidence-based practice

    We have a monthly academic afternoon as well as a comprehensive package of supervision, appraisal and reflective practice.

    Hastings & Rother Assessment and Treatment Service is a multi-disciplinary service for adults with complex mental health problems. Our work is challenging, but we receive regular positive feedback from our service users and carers.

    Main duties of the job

    Main duties of the job

    To be a successful in this post you will be:

  • A Registered Mental Health Nurse/OT/Social Worker
  • Able to manage a case load
  • A skilled communicator
  • Compassionate and recovery focused
  • Excellent at documentation and highly organised
  • Keen to embrace new ways of working and enthusiastic about improving clinical practice
  • It would also be advantageous if you have:

  • Experience working with adults with severe mental illness
  • Experience working in a community team
  • Our office is right in the thick of Hastings' vibrant and quirky culture and benefits from amazing sea views, with the promenade right across the road. Hastings still maintains its working fishing beach, as well as the old town, castle, pier and the area has some of the most affordable accommodation in the South East.

    Working here

    Quotes from Hastings & Rother ATS staff:

    "The team is friendly and there is a lot of support for new starters"

    "There are always people around to give you support"

    Parking costs are paid.

    About us

    Hastings events

    May: Jack in the Green

    July: Hastings Fringe Festival

    August: Hastings Carnival week

    Hastings Pride

    September:

    October: Hastings week

    November:

    What you can expect in return

    As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do.

    If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding Assessment and Treatment service in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you.

    We encourage flexible working . We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

    This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    For further details / informal visits contact:

    Name

    Joy Mashawa, Service Manager

    Telephone number

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Registered Practitioner with current registration (mental health/ Adult/ Social Work/ OT) appropriate to the role
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • Desirable

  • Completion of Mentorship Course/ ENB equivalent
  • Knowledge/ Experience

    Essential

  • Significant post qualifying experience (minimum two years) in relevant care group
  • Experience of working alongside people with psychosis and complex health and social care problems in the designated care group
  • Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
  • Experience of working consultatively with professionals
  • Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
  • Experience of partnership working with in CPA process
  • Understanding of clinical governance
  • Desirable

  • Experience of supervision staff
  • Skills

    Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to communicate in a clear and unambiguous way
  • Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
  • Ability to develop professional relationship with others
  • Ability to develop therapeutic relationships


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