Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse/OT/Social Worker
Job Description
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Bury North Adult Community Mental Health team based at New market Hospital as a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner.
Our forward-thinking community mental health team is seeking a band 5 Community Mental Health practitioner to join the friendly and experienced team. You will have the opportunity in the future to work towards a developmental band 6 role within the team.
As a mental health practitioner , you will be working with service users with mental health conditions that require ongoing care and treatment from secondary mental health services. We look to seek new ideas and ways forward and would welcome your experience and views.
It is the ideal time to join our collaborative team as we transform and develop the way we work -although this is a full-time role, we can be flexible and can offer some hybrid working and/or flexible working patterns if needed.
We welcome you to contact us to discuss more about the role and arrange a time for you to have an informal visit and a chance to meet with members of our friendly, dedicated and supportive team.
Main duties of the job
As a lead care professional you'll play a key role in our service users recovery, you'll work with them to create a collaborative recovery care plan and review this regularly . You will work with the service user, carers, external agencies and other services to ensure the service received is streamlined and cohesive.
You'll be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team and part of your role will be to support in assessments and provide treatment, we will provide opportunities for you to learn and develop these skills. You'll regularly be working with external agencies as part of a service users care, so being able to work well in a team and having excellent communication skills is vital. You can expect a thorough induction and training period, as well as opportunities for ongoing development. We hope to support you towards a band 6 role in the future.
You can expect a manageable case load and a supportive management team to ensure you're able to work independently but support is never far away if needed. You will receive regular management and clinical supervision.
You'll be motivated, compassionate, and keen to ensure our service users receive the best possible outcomes.
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 nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Recent CQC inspection has shown improvements in the services which we plan to build on. This is an exciting time of Transformation of mental health services in Suffolk, creating opportunities for services to recognise and consolidate what they are doing well and also to drive creativity to radically change service delivery. The changes are locally driven, with the aim of embedding mental health services within the community.
Job responsibilities
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 provisional currently; 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, Social Work or equivalent
- Professional registration
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
Desirable
- Ability to travel independently
Essential
Essential
- Has valid UK full driving licence
Desirable
- Has access to own vehicle to use for business purposes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
Newmarket Hospital
Exning Road
Newmarket
CB8 7JG
Employer's website
https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)
