Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
Are you an experienced Registered Mental Health Professional looking to work autonomously, in a forward thinking, fast-paced environment? Come and bring your mental health expertise into the heart of East Suffolk's communities!
We have a unique opportunity for Registered Mental Health Practitioners to come and make a difference to the local communities within our Primary Care Network (PCN) in South Rural.
Our Primary Care Network (PCN) Service for Mental Health has been developed to provide access to mental health services in Primary Care as part of an integrated health and care system, which brings care closer to home for our population.
The team in South Rural are passionate about developing their mental health provision; they're proactive and enthusiastic and need forward-thinking, driven practitioners to help them achieve their aspirations.
If you are excellent at building relationships, a great communicator, working as part of a diverse primary care team and feel confident making your own decisions - we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
South Rural are a group of GP practices amongst 8 networks who work together in a local geographical area, with varying sizes, patient populations and mental health priorities. Our practice locations include: Needham Market, Bildeston, Hadleigh, East Bergholt, Holbrook and Shotley.
You'll be working alongside registered nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and clinical psychologists. On a day to day basis, as a Registered Professional in a PCN, you will work as a member of the GP Practice's extended team and will be based within the practice.
Mental Health Practitioners in general practice aim to provide advice and support for people with complex mental health needs (such as bipolar, psychosis, eating disorders, severe depression & anxiety, and a range of other mental illness) and the primary care teams involved in their care. The aim is to enable people to access specialist mental health interventions when required but also to support people to live well in their communities by focusing on strategies to promote mental and physical well-being and prevent deterioration in people's health.
We're committed to your ongoing clinical development and would welcome the opportunity to support your professional goals. Development opportunities include access to leadership courses, mentoring/coaching and access to clinical development such as nonmedical prescribing course, Approved Mental Health Professional and more.
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 it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
* 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.
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.
Person Specification
Clinical experience
* Registered health care professional with UK registration
* Minimum of 2 years clinical experience within a community setting
Clinical experience
* Experience of independant assessment and management of mental health and risk
* Experience of working within a number of clinical settings.
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.
£37,338 to £44,962 a year gross per annum
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