Job overview
The Adult Community Mental Health Team based in Bury St Edmunds, are excited to welcome applications from Assistant Practitioners, Nursing Associates, Clinical Support Workers with experience or keen interest in working with complex mental health conditions.
There are endless opportunities available, and we are keen to welcome new faces to join our team on a permanent basis. We understand that to attract the best people, we need to develop career pathways and support staff to reach their full potential.
We are keen to support development opportunities and pathways, such as:
* DBT Training
* CAPS Training
* CBT in Psychosis
* Nursing Training
* OT Training
* And much more!
Does this sound like something you could be interested in? Let’s talk about what opportunities are available to match your skills and experience!
Main duties of the job
Working in a busy and dynamic Adult Community Mental Health Team means every day will be different. You will be involved in:
* Managing a (capped) caseload with a mix of service users, from those under The Care Programme Approach and others that are not
* Undertaking joint initial urgent/routine assessments on behalf of the service
* Attending multi-disciplinary team meetings with our Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurse Consultants, Clinical Team Managers, Senior Practitioners, Assistant Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals including Consultant Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists
* Attending outpatient clinic appointments
* Undertaking face to face visits in the community setting including home visits
* Working with service users and their families/carers to care plan holistic goal setting and engage in treatment planning and working in collaboration with internal/external stakeholders
* Medication administration (if qualified to do so) with opportunities to enrol in local university training programmes in medication management
* Working with other teams services like; inpatient, Home Treatment Team, Psychiatric Liaison Team, Social Care, The Police, Accommodation and Support Teams and 3rd party sector.
* We work with service users on their presenting needs and have many evidence based intervention packages to enhance the Service User experience.
* Use of own car and ability to travel independently is essential
Working for our organisation
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 nursing 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.
Join our Community Adult Mental Health Service based in Bury St Edmunds. We are currently going through an exciting transformation working closely with our Primary care colleagues and working towards aligning our team with our local GP practices.
Our Trust vales of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what this role encompasses. If you have the right values to join our organisation, you will be supported with a programme of training and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users. We are looking for someone who displays compassion, empathy, and sensitivity in your approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging presentation.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care/mental health or apprenticeship in H&SC/mental health L5 or Psychology Degree or BSC degree in a human science
* Care certificate or relevant equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
* Working with Service Users with mental health needs
* Working within Multidisciplinary Team (MDT)
* Working knowledge and understanding of CPA process
Skills and Other
Essential criteria
* Able to travel independently
* Ability to problem solve
Equal Opportunities
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
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Applicant requirements
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.
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