Are you a compassionate, dedicated and motivated Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist who holds a current professional registration and always puts people at the heart of everything you do?
Are you a professional who enjoys working as part of a 'can do' and forward-thinking team as well as embracing the challenge of working autonomously?
EIP Suffolk are currently offering a 5 month secondment / fixed term opportunity for a Band 6 AfC Mental Health Practitioner to join our specialist team in East Suffolk.
Previous experience of working with Psychosis within a community setting would be advantageous but not essential.
If you hold an interest in Early Intervention in Psychosis we look forward to hearing from you.
Main duties of the job
As a practitioner you will be able to demonstrate a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach to working with our service users and their families. The role includes multi-agency working alongside the family, local acute care services, primary care sector, social care, education, employment and voluntary services to ensure the service users needs are best met.
As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of individuals who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis, working collaboratively with their families and other supporting agencies to effectively address needs utilising Care Programme Approach to manage an assigned community caseload.
Alongside our experienced team you will deliver bespoke and timely interventions to our service users, aged 14 - 65 years, and their families in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention Services.
About us
EIP Suffolk offers regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice both as 1:1 and group sessions. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We will offer you a full EIP induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.
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
To offer Care Coordination to an assigned community caseload. To develop collaborative care and support plans with service users and / their families.
To ensure care and support plans are reviewed by the treating team on a regular basis - to include patient voice through completion of routine outcome measures for both EIP and our Trust.
To work alongside colleagues to ensure treatment / support interventions are delivered in a timely fashion to service users and their families / Carers.
To work alongside colleagues to maintain our National 2 week access and waiting time standard. To engage with service duty system rota as assigned.
To ensure completion of complex assessments inclusive of risk assessment and management plans.
To engage and contribute to all team / service clinical meetings - weekly MDT team formulation morning huddles.
To engage with all supervision forums as available : Managerial supervision on a monthly basis Clinical supervision groups on a monthly basis Team reflective practice on a monthly basis.
We are confident that being part of our team would enable you to be the practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. This role will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference, whilst having the much wider Trust network across Suffolk.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
* Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become Sign-off Mentor
* Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
Desirable
* Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
* Good to great management course, or equivalent
Experience
Essential
* Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
* Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
* Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
* Experience of completing complex assessments
Desirable
* Experience in supporting service development / evaluation
* Experience of working with both children and adults
* Experience of working with families
* Experience of working with Dual Diagnosis
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
* Knowledge of psychosocial interventions
* An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government initiative)
Desirable
* Developing knowledge of local wider systems and networks
* Knowledge of Health Promotion initiatives
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
Riverview House
Wickham Market
Woodbridge
IP13 0TA
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