Assistant Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Newmarket, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust Full time

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 DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
**Are you looking to develop your clinical career within a caring and supportive team?**

Our Bury North Community Mental Health Team is seeking a motivated Assistant Practitioner to join the existing team.

Our dedicated team covers towns and villages from Thetford to Bury St Edmunds. Your base will be Newmarket hospital, Newmarket..

Working across the community in West Suffolk our passionate team respect and value the lives of the people we support and work with. We positively engage with a range of companion organisations to ensure the best support and treatment can be given to our service users.

In this vital role, you’ll be a key member of the clinical team, providing high quality care for our service users whilst promoting the principles of Recovery. We’re a forward-thinking, collaborative group who truly value the Assistant Practitioner role.

We are keen to offer opportunities for the successful applicant to develop and enhance their clinical skills - you’ll be encourage to undertake further training, gain additional skills and continue to develop during your career with us.

**If you have a Foundation degree in Health and Social care (or equivalent), have experience or a keen interest in working within mental health and are looking for a new challenge in a rewarding community based role, we would love to hear from you**

**Main duties of the job**:
No two days are the same for us; we’re a busy and hardworking Adult Community Mental Health Team and in this role you can expect to be involved in:

- Managing a (capped) caseload working alongside an experienced and supportive team of professionals committed to delivering excellent care.
- Attending multi-disciplinary 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. you will be supported to develop your skills and knowledge and benefit from regular supervision from colleagues.

**Working for our organisation**:
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 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/ Stanstead 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.

**Detailed job description and main respo

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