Community Mental Health Practitioner

7 months ago


Hastings, United Kingdom Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust Full time

Community Mental Health Practitioner

Hastings & Rother Assessment & Treatment Service

Job overview

Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker with a clear understanding of how coordination of care can contribute to an individual’s recovery?

As a Community Mental Health Practitioner in our service you will be supporting service users with severe and enduring mental health problems and their carers. You will hold a caseload and input to the duty function of the team with other responsibilities dependent on your professional qualification. To be successful you will need to be able to work cohesively with other services both within our Trust and with partner agencies. Caring, compassionate and a good communicator, you will have a commitment to improving the lives of our service users through creative, evidence-based practice

We have a monthly academic afternoon as well as a comprehensive package of supervision, appraisal and reflective practice.

Hastings & Rother Assessment and Treatment Service is a multi-disciplinary service for adults with complex mental health problems. Our work is challenging, but we receive regular positive feedback from our service users and carers.

Main duties of the job

**To be a successful in this post you will be**:
A Registered Mental Health Nurse/OT/Social Worker

Able to manage a case load

A skilled communicator

Compassionate and recovery focused

Excellent at documentation and highly organised

Keen to embrace new ways of working and enthusiastic about improving clinical practice

**It would also be advantageous if you have**:
Experience working with adults with severe mental illness

Experience working in a community team

Our office is right in the thick of Hastings’ vibrant and quirky culture and benefits from amazing sea views, with the promenade right across the road. Hastings still maintains its working fishing beach, as well as the old town, castle, pier and the area has some of the most affordable accommodation in the South East.

Working here

**Quotes from Hastings & Rother ATS staff**:
“The team is friendly and there is a lot of support for new starters”

“There are always people around to give you support”

Parking costs are paid.

Hastings events

What you can expect in return

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do.

If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding Assessment and Treatment service in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

**For further details / informal visits contact**:
Name

Joy Mashawa, Service Manager

Telephone number

0300 304 0244



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