Main area Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time Job ref 364-A-8750
Site King's Wood Centre Town Colchester Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/03/2025 23:59
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
* We are among the largest employers in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
* We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care.”
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters.”
Our Values
* We Care
* We Empower
Our strategic objectives
* We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
* We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
* We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
* We will help our communities to thrive.
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner in our North East Essex Dementia Service. We have a commitment to provide responsive, flexible and evidence-based specialist service to those people who are undergoing an assessment of their memory problems or those diagnosed with dementia, offering assessment to their complex presentation and needs.
Based at the Kingswood Centre, the NE Essex Dementia Service offers assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and support for those experiencing memory problems. We work closely with third party organisations, particularly Alzheimer’s Society, in providing support for people using services and their carers, ensuring effective forward signposting where appropriate.
We are looking for someone who can contribute to the good work, innovative new ideas, help drive service improvement, and work collaboratively with other health care providers to reduce the number of admissions to the general hospital as well as mental health inpatient units.
Applicants will be expected to have professional registration and relevant experience at band 5 or above.
Main duties of the job
The Memory Assessment Service Support Team (DIST) and the Dementia Support Team (DST) offer age inclusive memory assessments and diagnosis. The Dementia Intensive Support Team provides short-term intensive treatment in the person’s place of residence, working towards admission avoidance. The remaining community teams provide support in enabling people with dementia of all ages to maintain their independence in their preferred place of residence, looking at a complete holistic assessment leading to better health outcomes. This includes access to other community services that include assistive technology, advice about the environment, and healthy living. Providing education for their families, friends, and carers so they are better equipped to understand and support their loved ones with dementia.
Working in close co-operation with hospital, community services, primary care staff, social care professionals, and third sector organisations e.g., Alzheimer’s Society, Age Well East.
The post holder will work with a range of professionals and have some link into other professional services within the North East Essex area.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Care, Learn, and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
* Season Ticket Loans
* NHS discounts for staff
* Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
* Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
* The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
* Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
* Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As part of the ongoing transformation of services in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, development of services for dementia have been working over the past year in developing an intensive responsive service to manage the needs of these patients. The role is to join EPUT as a Band 6 Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner within the Dementia Service which includes the Memory Assessment Service, Dementia Intensive Support Team (DIST), and the Dementia Support Team (DST).
The Memory Assessment Service offers age inclusive memory assessments and diagnosis. The Dementia Intensive Support Team provides short-term intensive treatment in the person’s place of residence, working towards admission avoidance. The remaining community teams provide support in enabling people with dementia of all ages to maintain their independence in their preferred place of residence, looking at a complete holistic assessment leading to better health outcomes. This includes access to other community services that include assistive technology, advice about the environment, and healthy living. Providing education for their families, friends, and carers so they are better equipped to understand and support their loved ones with dementia.
Working in close co-operation with hospital, community services, primary care staff, social care professionals, and third sector organisations e.g., Alzheimer’s Society, Age Well East.
The post holder will work with a range of professionals and have some link into other professional services within the North East Essex area.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Registration Mental Health Nurse RMN Part 3
* Evidence of appropriate CPD post-qualification
Knowledge Skills/Experience
* Good oral communication skills based on fluency on the English language
* Experience of working within mental health community services
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
Important Professional References
Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing epunft.cv19hr@nhs.net.
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.
Come and work at EPUT and make a difference in people’s lives.
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