Senior Mental Health Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you an experienced practitioner who is highly driven with a range of transferrable skills and is passionate about working with adults experiencing mental health difficulties? Then consider joining us in Bury South Adult Community Mental Health Team. In exchange you will be well supported within a friendly and well established team, with continuing opportunities for you and your ongoing professional development.

Bury South Adult community team specialise in working with adult's who are experiencing mental illness. The team are based in Bury St Edmunds, Sudbury and Haverhill and you will be working with one of the most complex demographics within Suffolk. We focus on Recovery based interventions and strive to work in partnership with those we care for, their families and their networks

We are currently in an exciting period of change and transformation. We are looking for people to join us to continue to build on an already successful service. We aim to continuously improve the service delivery and outcomes as a part of NSFT.

We strive to be the best we can, so that we can deliver outstanding care for those we work for.

Main duties of the job

Working with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team. Undertake initial assessments. Liaise with statutory and voluntary sectors. Ensuring good quality documentation. The successful candidate will be an integral part of this team. You will contribute to meetings both within the service and in wider networks. Effective personal planning and organisation of daily workload. Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands. Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high quality of care. Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others. Managing a case load of patient that have a range of mental health needs. Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred. Participating in the duty rota Practicing in line with policy, guidance and legislation. Carrying out risk assessment, crisis and safety planning. Working closely with the ACS mental health team to support our patients, meeting both their mental health needs and their Care Act needs. To support patients in being discharged back to primary care.

About us

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 professional 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post will involve you working autonomously in the community. You will engage with people, and using effective communication, often in difficult and stressful circumstances. You will be undertaking initial assessments, introducing services, making referrals to appropriate agencies, and monitoring and supporting situations to achieve positive outcomes for our service users and carers.

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

Desirable

Good to great management course, or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

Desirable

Experience in delivering group based interventions

other

Essential

Ability to travel independently

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