Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

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 a variety of mental health concerns, alongside working closely with families and carers as well as external agencies to provide a holistic approach and 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 keeping Service Users and Carers at the heart of everything you do? Are you interested in developing your leadership skills whilst in a clinical role? Would you 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 for innovative 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 your capped caseload. You will be expected to support duty cover for the team on a rostered basis and will liaise with other agencies to ensure care needs 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 their experiences and learning from each other.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• 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)
• NHS discounts and many more

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!

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Interviews are, subject to change, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. 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

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

Experience

• 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 supporting service development
• Experience in delivering group based interventions

Other

• Able 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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearGross per annum Pro rata