Emotional Wellbeing Hub Practitioner

1 week ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for two Band 6 full time posts within the Emotional Wellbeing Hub, for a qualified Practitioner (mental health nurse/ occupational therapist/ social worker) to join our dynamic young person focused Child, Family and Young Persons Service (CFYP) in Suffolk. This is an exciting opportunity to support the ongoing development of the iThrive framework in Suffolk in a locality-based model.

The Emotional Wellbeing Hub (EWH) provides an access point to mental health services for children, young people aged 0-25 years old. The service provides screening of referrals, advice, guidance to professionals and service users who have been referred for mental health services. We provide telephone interventions and signposting to services within NSFT, VCSE and additional support services across Suffolk.

The post holders will be responsible for responding to queries and referrals to initiate the most appropriate sources of support for children and young people. This includes facilitating therapeutic conversations, risk assessment, safety planning and arranging onward referrals where this is appropriate.

The Emotional Wellbeing Hub is currently based within Endeavour House, 8 Russell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2BX and is open 8am-8pm service Monday to Friday, We require flexibility in working patterns to cover the service opening hours.

Main duties of the job

EWH staff have varied duties allocated via a team rota which include:

Managing the duty inbox email requests, telephone requests and deciding next steps. Screening referrals, deciding whether these are urgent, priority or routine. Triaging referrals, making calls to professionals to find out more information or contacting families and young people directly to gain additional information on their needs, risk assess and safety plan. Multi agency liaison, presenting referrals to other teams to ascertain appropriate service for support.

We are looking for candidates who have a registered profession, have kept up their CPD in order to retain their registered profession. It would be desirable for candidates to have experience of 2 years or more working with children/adolescents and young adults within the mental health field who can demonstrate an excellent understanding of the mental health needs of this client group.

We are looking for candidates with sound clinical judgement and good understanding of safeguarding and risk assessment.

Previous experience in assessment and formulation is essential.

About us

You will be part of our multi-disciplinary team whose vision and goals are to provide the best possible care and outcomes for the young people and their families that we work with. Making sure we deliver a high quality of care is of paramount importance to our service. As a community-based service, it is essential to build effective relationships with partner agencies who offer support and interventions to the children and young people who are supported through our service.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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, youll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. Were 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

Some of the benefits you can expect:

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

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent Ongoing professional development working towards degree level

Experience

Essential

Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge and experience of working directly with children, young people and their families. Evidence of collaborative working with families. Experience of assessment and observation of the developmental needs of children

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