Assistant Practitioner

Are you looking for a new challenge within an exciting new project? Our Suffolk Secure Services Forensic Community Mental Health Team are looking for an Assistant Practitioner to join their existing team.

The team you’ll be joining providesrecovery-focused community care. This is for those who have offended and have been, or are being, discharged from a secure unit.

We have been awarded some collaborative funds for the next 12 months, which will help us focus on service user progression and achieving the best for them by reducing the risks of re admission, shorter stays in hospitals and supporting with more community resource to aid recovery.
- Experience or a keen interest in Mental Health
- Foundation degree in Health and Social Care or equivalent e.g. level 5 apprenticeship in Mental Health
- The ability to travel independently
- Excellent communication skills
- A positive can-do approach to their work

As a team, we embrace a culture of mutual respect, transparency, integrity, and collaborative working. We are a friendly and ambitious team, welcoming of new clinicians who may or may not have previous experience in this field.

As Assistant Practitioner within our team, you will focus on supporting reintegration back into the community, by in reaching service users placed in inpatient areas and proactively supporting plans to discharge into the community.

Our welcoming and collaborative team is recovery focused and works with a mixed caseload of male and female service users, who have complex mental health needs.

This is a vital role and your wealth of skills and expertise will be welcomed and truly valued. You will be expected to complete collaborative assessments and review CPA with service users as well as their friends, family and carers.

We’re passionate about career progression, development and uncovering training opportunities - from the moment you join us, you will be supported to learn, develop and progress within your mental health career.

By joining our team, you will be well supported to develop further your knowledge and skills to deliver evidence-based interventions for the group of service users. Personal development will be supported through meaningful Appraisal and via a bespoke training package (a comprehensive in house & external training programmes). On a monthly basis you will be offered reflective practice sessions, mandatory clinical supervision, and Line management supervision. You will also have an opportunity to actively take part in Quality improvement projects within the service.

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 are an improving Trust, with ambitious aspirations and pushing ahead with exciting transformation work. 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.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY