SOAMHS Intensive Support Practitioner - OT or RMN
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area: OT's & Nurses to be Intensive Support Practitioners in the SOAMHS
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 354-AE-21065-A
Site: St Anne's Centre, Town: St Leonards-on-Sea
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/01/2025 23:59
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, and enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention, and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued, and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills, and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership, you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers, and families across our communities.
As a Trust, we are committed to making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during the interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
We are looking for Band 6 OTs and RMNs to fill the role of Intensive Support Practitioner and to join us at the forefront of leading the community transformation changes. As part of our community transformation plans, we are starting to develop our Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams. For Specialist Older Adult services, there will be 5 teams across East Sussex with a range of multi-disciplinary professionals in each team who will provide assessment, treatment, and interventions including the provision of intensive support and treatment to enable people to receive care and treatment in their home setting and avoid the need for hospital admissions.
This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 5-6 Nurses & Practitioners (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).
Main duties of the job
As an Intensive Support Practitioner, you will be working closely with other professionals in the multi-disciplinary team and managers to develop the intensive support and intervention function of the team whilst supporting the community transformation agenda. The aim of providing intensive support and interventions is to enable people to receive care in their own homes and avoid admission to hospital. You will have access to local clinical and professional supervision, regular training, and personal development opportunities.
Working for our organisation
In return, you will bring us commitment, enthusiasm, and the ability to work as part of an innovative service that is always looking for ways to improve the care it delivers. Joining the Trust, you would become part of a network of professional nursing and OT staff working with older adults and people with dementia (and their carers) and have the opportunity to network with, and learn from, colleagues in similar roles across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In East Sussex, we are proud and excited to be working in partnership with local service providers across the health and social care system to provide high-quality, innovative, and joined-up care for older people with mental health needs and/or dementia and their families. In Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, there are Clinical Academic Groups that lead on best practice and research related to care pathways across the trust. In addition, we have the Centre for Dementia Studies, which is a joint venture between Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Management/Leadership training
Knowledge/Experience
* 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 providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
* 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
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic, and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants, the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarize themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Glen McCready
Job title: Clinical Operational Manager
Email address: glen.mccready@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07469 351474
Additional information:
Sue Payne, Lead Nurse Older People and Dementia
Tel: 07805 379206
sue.payne21@nhs.net
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