Assistant Practitioner

7 days ago


Bury St, Suffolk, United Kingdom Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time
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

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.


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.


  • 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.


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