Main area Band 6 Mental Health Nurse/OT or Social Worker Grade NHS AFC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: Monday to Friday Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week Job ref 354-AE-21078
Employer Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Cavendish House Town Hastings Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/04/2025 23:59
Community Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AFC: Band 6
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
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 in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during 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
Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker with a clear understanding of how coordination of care can contribute to an individual’s recovery?
As a Community Mental Health Practitioner in our service you will be supporting service users with severe and enduring mental health problems and their carers. You will hold a caseload and input to the duty function of the team with other responsibilities dependent on your professional qualification. To be successful you will need to be able to work cohesively with other services both within our Trust and with partner agencies. Caring, compassionate and a good communicator, you will have a commitment to improving the lives of our service users through creative, evidence-based practice.
We have a monthly academic afternoon as well as a comprehensive package of supervision, appraisal and reflective practice.
Hastings & Rother Assessment and Treatment Service is a multi-disciplinary service for adults with complex mental health problems. Our work is challenging, but we receive regular positive feedback from our service users and carers.
Main duties of the job
The role of a Community Mental Health Practitioner is to work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with multiple mental health presentations and working alongside service users to develop their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. You will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant to the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this.
1. To be an active participant in the multi-disciplinary team, formulating care plans and utilising appropriate assessments.
2. To take part in all quality initiatives actively supporting and participating in both policies and service developments in the specific care group.
3. Carry a caseload, actively working with other involved agencies, families and carers.
4. Assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures.
5. To participate in regular clinical, professional and managerial supervision.
6. Provide clinical supervision to junior staff and act as a mentor for student nurses.
7. To maintain and contribute to standards of professional care, ethics, policies and procedures.
8. To contribute, to improve access for patients to local generic health care services, primary, secondary and specialist services.
9. To maintain record keeping within Trust guidelines, national standards and NICE.
Working for our organisation
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do.
If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding Assessment and Treatment service in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you. Hastings is a vibrant seaside town, offering affordable coastal living along with independent shopping and a variety of cafes, bars and restaurants and a very creative music and artistic scene.
As a practitioner in our team we can offer you:
* Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
* Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
* Flexible working patterns
* Reimbursed parking
* Child care vouchers
* Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
* A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC
* Generous holiday entitlement (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays
* NHS Pension contributions
We encourage flexible working.
We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Registered Practitioner with current registration (Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nurse /Social Work/ OT) appropriate to the role
Evidence of continuous professional development
Essential Knowledge
Experience of working alongside people with complex mental health needs in the designated care group.
Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of mental health problems
Experience of working consultatively with other 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
Knowledge of MHA (1983/2007).
Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (2005), to include practical knowledge of FACE documentation, DOLS and Best Interest decisions.
Child and Adult safeguarding procedures.
Change management and organising and prioritising their workload.
Demonstrate ability to enhance care through evidence-based knowledge.
Demonstrate professional development relevant to the specific care group.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications
Registered Practitioner with current registration (Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nurse /Social Work/ OT) appropriate to the role
Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience/Knowledge
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
Previous experience of working in the community
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Practitioner with current registration (mental health/LD/Adult/Social Work/OT), appropriate to the job role
* Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge/Experience
* Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
* Experience of working alongside people with psychosis and complex health and social care problems in the designated care group
* Experience of managing a caseload
* 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 familiarise 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 Joy Mashawa Job title Service Manager Email address joy.mashawa@nhs.net Telephone number 0300 304 0244 Additional information
For any information or to arrange informal visits, please contact Joy Mashawa (Service Manager), Llana Mchugh (Team Lead) or Carole Bentley (Team Lead), Monday to Friday 9-5pm
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