Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Job Description
Job summary
Do you want to work for an award-winning team? Ipswich Adult CMHT have been recognised for Working together for better mental health.
You will be well supported within a friendly and well-established award-winning team, with continuing opportunities and ongoing professional development.
Ipswich Adult community team specialise in working with adult's who are experiencing mental illness. The team are based in Ipswich 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 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.
You'll be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team, undertake the role of the duty worker as part of our team's rota. 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 / preceptorship period, as well as opportunities for ongoing development.
Main duties of the job
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.
The typical job roles and responsibilities will include:
- Working with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team.
- Undertake initial assessments.
- Liaise with statutory and voluntary sectors
- 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.
- Managing and providing a high quality of care.
- 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 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.
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
- Relocation packages.
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. You will be supported within your practice via a helpful team
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!
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
Desirable
- Good to great management course, or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- 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 the delivery of clinical interventions
- Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
Desirable
- Experience in delivering group based interventions
- Experience in supporting service development
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Competent assessment skills
- Effective analytical and decision-making skills
- Care planning skills
- Risk assessment knowledge and skills
- Competent and effective treatment skills
- Able to effectively prioritise own workload
- Basic computer skills including use of email/internet
- Satisfactory verbal and written language skills
Desirable
- Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice
- Prevention and Management of Suicide training
- Medicine Management Safeguarding training
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
- Knowledge of psychosocial interventions
- An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government initiative)
Desirable
- Developing knowledge of local wider systems and networks
- Knowledge of health promotion
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel independently
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
Mariner House
43 Hanford Road
Ipswich
IP1 2GA
Employer's website
https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)
