Senior Mental Health Practitioner

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Full time
Our CMHT in West Norfolk is seeking dedicated

Senior Registered Mental Health Practitioner

to join their existing team.

We have opportunities throughout our services, and want to hear from passionate individuals who share our values.

We are confident that being part of CMHT would enable you to be the Registered Mental Health Practitioner you trained, and would like to be. Joining our team will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference.

Ideally you'll have experience and skills in working within the community. Our dedicated team is compassionate and responsive. There are processes to review our work, to develop areas of good practice, therapeutic skills and support learning and development of staff.

Nursing has never been more in the public eye and now more than ever our profession needs to adapt and change to meet the changing needs of our patients and the evolving health and social care integrated systems.

As a nursing workforce, we need to build upon and diversify our compassionate and inclusive leadership when delivering high quality care and diversify into new roles.

If you'd like the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, intriguing role then we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Within CMHT, we recognise that nursing staff make up one of the largest proportion of our workforce and we value the expertise and professionalism that you will bring.

As a registered practitioner within CMHT you will:

Hold a caseload of service users under the CPA framework Offer triage and assessment to service users referred into the service. Managing and assessing risk is a large part of our role and as a team we robustly make decisions in complete collaboration with all systems. Support, guide and lead colleagues in your team

As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments, working collaboratively with families and other supporting agencies to manage needs, as well as holding a caseload and undertaking duty.

You can expect regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development, you'll be provided with a full induction program and access to extensive training and career development.

We are seeking a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach with our service users, their families and their network.

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 description

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 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.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs For informal discussions or observational visits to the team please contact CRHT Acting Manager, Louisa Marshall louisa.marshall@nsft.nhs.uk.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become a sign off mentor

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 delivery of clinical interventions

Desirable Experience in supporting service development

Employer details

Employer name Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Address Chatterton House King's Lynn PE30 5PD

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