Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

We are recruiting a Mental Health Nurse to join our Team in Central Norfolk Locality, where you will be based at Gateway House.

We provide assessment and treatment for those experiencing an acute mental health need in the community. We work with service users with avariety of mental health concerns, alongside working closely with families and carers as well as external agencies to provide a holistic approachand work in a creative and flexible way to provide a positive outcome for our service users on their recovery journey.

Main duties of the job

Are you a highly motivated, passionate, and skilled Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker? Do you believe in keepingService Users and Carers at the heart of everything you do? Are you interested in developing your leadership skills whilst in a clinical role? Wouldyou like to work in well supported, dynamic, enthusiastic recovery focused community team?

We are openly welcoming people from a diverse clinical background with experience in different areas of mental health. We are looking forinnovative and focused practitioners who are determined to make a positive difference to the care of our Service Users.

You will be responsible for the assessment, planning, review and delivery of care and treatment in conjunction with the service users on yourcapped caseload. You will be expected to support duty cover for the team on a rostered basis and will liaise with other agencies to ensure careneeds are met.

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 responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what ittakes 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.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)

Desirable

• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice.
• Recognised Leadership/Management training

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

Desirable

• Experience in delivering group based interventions Experience in supporting service development and quality improvement initiatives
• Experience working in the specific area

Other

Essential

• Ability and willingness to travel independently to meet the needs and requirements of the service
• Undertake physical intervention training and remain trained in techniques, as required by role

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication and engagement skills Conflict resolution and Breakaway training (or requirement to undertake within first 12 weeks)
• Competent assessment skills
• Care planning and Risk assessment knowledge and skills

Desirable

• Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice
• Prevention and Management of Suicide training

Knowledge

Essential

• The ability to use clinical assessment tools and outcome measures effectively and collaboratively
• Have the ability to discuss, identify and escalate safeguarding issues in a sensitive way to protect those who are vulnerable
• Ensure care is values based, nonjudgemental and equitable, and supports the principles of equality, diversity and inclusivity being met.

Desirable

• Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice
• Knowledge of health promotion
• Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects