Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

6 months ago


Ipswich, 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 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, 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

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
Do you want to work for an award winning team? Ipswich Adult IDT have been recognised for Working Together for better mental health.

Are you an experienced practitioner, who is highly driven with a range of transferrable skills and is passionate about working with adults experiencing mental health difficulties? Then we want to hear from you In exchange you will be well supported within a friendly and well established award winning team, with continuing opportunities for you and your ongoing professional development.

Ipswich Adult community team specialise in working with adult’s who are experiencing mental illness. The team are based in Ipswich and you will be working with one of the most complex demographics within Suffolk. We focus on Recovery based interventions and strive to work in partnership with those we care for, their families and their networks

We are currently in an exciting period of change and transformation. We are looking for people to join us to continue to build on an already successful service. We aim to continuously improve the service delivery and outcomes as a part of NSFT.

We strive to be the best we can, so that we can deliver outstanding care for those we work for.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Working with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team.
- Undertake initial assessments.
- Liaise with statutory and voluntary sectors.
- Ensuring good quality documentation.
- Effective personal planning and organisation of daily workload.
- Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands.
- Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high quality of care.
- Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others.
- Managing a case load of patient that have a range of mental health needs.
- Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred.
- Participating in the duty rota
- Practicing in line with policy, guidance and legislation.
- Carrying out risk assessment, crisis and safety planning.
- Working closely with the ACS mental health team to support our patients, meeting both their mental health needs and their Care Act needs.
- To support patients in being discharged back to primary care.

**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 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.

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



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