Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner

5 months ago

Norwich, 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**:
We are recruiting a Primary Care Network (PCN) Mental Health Practitioner to join our team. This role is open to a Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker.

Now is a really exciting time to join us as we launch our Primary Care Network across the whole of Norfolk and Waveney. Primary Care Network (PCN) Service for Mental Health has been developed to provide access to mental health services in Primary Care as part of this integrated health and care system, which brings care closer to home for our population.

**Main duties of the job**:
As a PCN practitioner, you will work across the interface between Primary Care and Secondary Mental Health Services as part of a multidisciplinary team providing advice, support, and treatment for members of our community experiencing problems with their mental health and wellbeing.

We are looking to recruit Mental Health Nurses, Registered Nurses Occupational Therapists and Social Workers with an interest or preferably experience in a mental health setting, to undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care.

You will need to have good organizational skills as you will be managing a caseload and the provision of services to people with mental health care needs as well as offering support and advice to other health care professionals. You will be an autonomous practitioner, making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high-quality care.

**Working for our organisation**:
We are working jointly with our primary care colleagues and as the PCN’s evolve, we will be expected to think about the wider health of their communities, taking a proactive approach to managing population health. These roles, although new have been piloted in our Early Adopter sites for the past year so the workload is defined, manageable and appropriate to allow for patient centred care and other activities.

Benefits included with these roles 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.

**NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions, but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.**

**CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.**

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualification**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
- Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become Sign-off Mentor

**Desirable criteria**:

- Good to great management course, or equivalent

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience in delivering group based interventions
- Experience in supporting service development

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Competent assessment skills
- Able to effectively prioritise own work load

**Desirable criteria**:

- Able to time manage and refle

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