Group Treatment Practitioner Neighbourhood Mental Health Services
Posted 3 hours 39 minutes ago by NHS
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with Group Treatment Experience to join the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Worthing and Adur, covering the coastal area.
Group Treatment Service in Arun, Adur and Worthing, is integrating into the Neighbourhood Mental Health Services as part of an exciting transformation. This role will be based in Worthing and Shoreham, but will be offering Group Interventions to patients in the neighbouring community service in Littlehampton. The role will delivers groups alongside 1:1 sessions for clients in secondary care.
The service provides a psychoeducational group program offering transdiagnostic interventions supporting patients with their recovery.
This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational and creative groups.
The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals to the GTS as well as supporting the daily running of the service across three sites.
This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).
Main duties of the jobThe post holder will be responsible for assessing patients (which includesassessment for suitability for the group treatment programme), and providing individual therapeutic interventions to support the group work.
You will be in charge of facilitating groups and managing your own clinical case load, you will also have Lead Practitioner responsibility. This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills in working within a psychological framework, and facilitating and developing groups. The group treatment role provides an excellent supervision package to facilitate this learning.
This role will require you to process referrals and manage the team on a day to day basis. You will have supervision responsibilities and need to liaise with colleagues in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams.
About usGroup Treatment Service is based in Worthing but offers interventions across the coastal patch, including: Adur, Arun and Worthing NMHT's. The post holder will sometimes be required to travel across sites.
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
- Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- Free parking on-site
- Access to a host of discount schemes
- A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC
- Excellent NHS Pension
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational and creative groups.
The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals to the Group Treatment Programme and manage the daily running of the service at this site.
You will also hold a caseload of service users with complex needs and will be expected to use evidence based / client cantered principles to assess, plan and evaluate interventions.
You will take part in staff development, training and supervisions, and a responsibility to supervise and support your team members.
You will need to be an experienced, reflective and enthusiastic practitioner, committed to working in a reflective team with a broad range of experience in the following: working with clients with complex mental health difficulties and their carers, facilitating groups, supervising staff, working within a psychological framework including formulation and using psychological interventions.
Person Specification Qualifications- Registered Occupational Health Therapist with current registration
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
- Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
- Experience of supervising staff
- Experience of managing a caseload
- Experience of planning, facilitating and developing group work
- Experience of working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
- Experience of working within the CPA process
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Previous experience of working in the community
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.