Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner Assessor

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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YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
**Are you an experienced Registered **Mental Health Practitioner **looking for a new challenge based in a Community Mental Health Team? Our forward-thinking service has introduced an exciting new post to truly make a difference to the communities we care for**

As the care co-ordinator you will be the first point of contact for patients referred to our service; we care for working age adults from our central base at The Julian Hospital site in Norwich.

In this vital role, you will be responsible for assessing the service user’s mental health presentation and risks. You’ll be completing initial assessments for service users who are referred into the service and will support triage to ensure they’re seen by the appropriate clinicians and services.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate, a great listener and is happy to work both autonomously and as part of a wider team. Ideally you’ll have experience in community mental health and assessment, although you can expect a thorough induction and training when you start.

It is the ideal time to join our collaborative team as we transform and develop the way we work; we have new clinical leadership roles imbedded within teams which increases the clinical support available, our management team is incredibly supportive and we’re passionate about providing training and development opportunities.

**Main duties of the job**:
As an assessor, you will be responsible for completing relevant documentation collaboratively with the service user and any other relevant healthcare professional and identified carers. You’ll work together with external agencies and carers in the assessment process, to ensure the service user is referred on to the best team to aid their recovery journey.

We’re a friendly, hardworking team who enjoy supporting others; you can expect to work with the full multi-disciplinary team as well as students from a variety of disciplines. You’ll be based in Norwich and may sometimes be required to visit service users in their homes to carry out their initial assessment. Although this is a full time role, we can be flexible and can offer some hybrid working and/or flexible working patterns if needed.

**To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be an excellent communicator, positive and proactive. You should be adaptable and innovative and have the desire to help improve and develop the service we provide - if this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you**

**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 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.

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