Senior Mental Health Practitioner

1 week ago


King's Lynn, 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**:
**Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist**

Hybrid working, and a warm welcome accompany this opportunity to work creatively with Young People and their families within the Community based Youth Team in Kings Lynn, West Norfolk. We are a multi-disciplinary team promoting positive Mental Health and providing treatment interventions for Young People aged 14 to 25 years. The role is for a fixed period of 12 months to cover maternity leave.

We strive to be dynamic and creative and are dedicated Mental Health Professionals, focussing on the needs of Young People providing a needs-led approach. We are seeking like-minded clinicians to work alongside us in supporting Young Peoples Wellbeing and Mental Health.

This a great opportunity to learn, grow and develop in a supportive environment within a fantastic team dedicated to offering great care. If this sounds like the role for you and you would like to come on this exciting journey with us, then please do not hesitate to apply

**Main duties of the job**:
***Duties will include, but not exclusive to:

- Triage of new referrals
- Conducting Assessments
- Supporting and being part of the Duty system within the Team
- Individual Caseload holding and management
- Delivering evidenced based mental health treatment interventions to young people both on a one-to-one basis and in group settings both face to face and using online mediums such as Attend Anywhere, Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
- Multi-agency working; including working alongside families, acute hospital, primary care sector, social care, education and voluntary services
- Active contribution in team meetings and reflective sessions so that the team can learn, grow, and improve the service we provide

**Working for our organisation**:
Within the Youth Team we pride ourselves on the care we give to both our service users and each other. You will find a positive and supportive environment with a strong team ethic. Our goals are to provide great care with great outcomes where we challenge ourselves to grow both individually as clinicians and collectively as a team, so that we can better meet the needs of the young people.

On a wider scale there are many other benefits to working for NSFT as an organisation, some of which 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
- 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

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:

- Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details before you apply._

The job can vary from day to day with no two days being the same. For us as a team to provide the best possible care that we can, it requires us to work together as a unit, to support each other, and to help each other grow and learn.

It is a challenging role but one that can also bring so many rewards. There is no greater moment than when you see a young person turn their life around and thrive, knowing that you played a part in facilitating that growth that has helped them to change

It can often be a difficult path to get to that moment with some young people and this is why the role requires great skills of communication, empathy, patience, strength, tenacity to name just a few. The mental health needs that we treat are wid



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