Senior Mental Health Practitioner

6 months ago

Bury St Edmunds, 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 join a forward thinking, supportive Mental Health Service? Do you enjoy working as part of a team?**

Our friendly and supportive team, are based in Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket.

We are looking to welcome a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, to join us in providing an excellent service to Young adults and their families, in West Suffolk.

You’ll be working alongside a close knit multi-disciplinary team of, Nurses, Social Worker and Psychiatrists as well as working closely with Secondary Mental Health colleagues, GP surgeries, PCNs, Social Workers within ACS and Care Agencies.

We are an established team with a high retention rate, and we are looking to welcome a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. You will be given full support and a comprehensive induction.

We are looking for someone who is interested in working in Young People’s services, has an interest in physical as well as mental health and who understands assessment, the referral process, case handling and working collaboratively with the wider MDT.

**Main duties of the job**:
**Main duties of the job**

As a Community Mental Health Practitioner, you will be responsible for:

- Holding a caseload of service users
- Assessing and managing risk.
- Using Dialog+ where possible and Recovery Care Planning with service users and carers.
- Managing your own diary and planning your day.
- Attending MDT meetings and wards.
- Participating in the Duty Rota.
- Communicate effectively through notes on Lorenzo and letters to Service Users, GPs and other involved parties.
- Driving is essential for this role.

**Working for our organisation**:
**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 beautiful countryside. We’re an hour and a half away from London and 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 responsibilities**:
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 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.

**Person specification**:
**Experience**

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