Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
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!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
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Job overview
Are you an experienced mental health professional looking to utilise your clinical skills in a different and rewarding environment?
The Suffolk Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) based in East Suffolk, predominantly at Ipswich Hospital, Woodlands Unit are seeking ambitious and caring Senior Registered Mental Health Practitioners to join our existing team at an exciting time.
The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team are proactive and highly skilled at managing risk and supporting service users in East Suffolk who are presenting in crisis. The CRHTT service is an age inclusive provision covering a diverse and multicultural patient base.We are passionate about providing alternative options to hospital admissions, so you can expect to be undertaking rewarding and highly intensive work.
We looking to recruit compassionate, dedicated, and conscientious individuals, who want to make a positive difference to adults experiencing mental distress and mental health crisis.
Staff provide care, treatment, and assessment to patients both at our base location, in their own homes and other places of safety, getting you out and about seeing patients in a range of community settings.
If you enjoy working with high-risk cases, are looking to develop as an autonomous, confident practitioner, then we’d love to hear from you!
***Previous applicants need not apply***
Main duties of the job
We are - the ‘front-door’ to acute services, providing triage, assessment, intensive support, and alternative to admission hand in hand with support of families and other third-party providers.
The team also works with service users already in hospital to ensure that they can be supported at home at the earliest opportunity to support their recovery.
Communication is key, we are currently in the midst of significant positive change and growth within the team. We are therefore looking for someone who can communicate in a professional manner with a wide spectrum of people to achieve the best outcome for our service users and their families/supporters.
We are looking for someone who has exceptional complex decision-making skills. The team requires you to work autonomously whilst maintaining professional standards and fostering good working relationships across teams.
The usual shift pattern is long days, 3-4 shift per week, with 4 days off and we can offer the opportunity to rotate if this is something of particular interest. CRHT delivers patient care twenty-four hours a day. Shift working is in place to ensure this service is delivered.
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.
When you join us, you can expect to be supported in building your competence in assessment, there will be a Trust based induction and further local induction process where a core competency framework supports you to develop your assessment skills, using evidence-based practice at its core.
Why work for us? As a Trust we have had our challenges, however we 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.The Trust aspire and are continually developing our service provisions to improve our care delivery, whilst we work together as one team, for a Safer, Kinder and Better Trust.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Are you looking for a challenge and do you want to make a difference to the people that we care for? If you answered yes to these questions, this could be the ideal role for you.
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!
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In return for your individual skills and knowledge, we are fully committed to assisting you to meet your professional development needs and enabling you to provide high standards of care, in a supportive environment.
For further details regarding this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
Experience
Essential criteria- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
- Experience in delivery of clinical interventions
- Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
- Experience in delivering group based interventions
- Experience in supporting service development
Other
Essential criteria- Able to travel independently
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.