Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner - COAST
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Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner
We are seeking to recruit a passionate, knowledgeable, and dynamic Mental Health Practitioner to join our well-established and innovative Sussex CAMHS Acute services. This post will be part of COAST, providing alternative to hospital admission treatment to our young community. As a mental health practitioner, your goal is to offer support and treatment to young people and their families during a period of mental health crisis.
Responsibilities
- Join a friendly, supportive, and creative multi-disciplinary team.
- Be integral in an exciting project to develop the service to introduce an intensive pathway.
- Deliver core business, which includes assessing young people's mental health, including attention to risk management and care planning, and working with families and the wider systems that support these young people.
- Contribute to the management of a team caseload of clients with complex needs.
- Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions, which will be delivered in a community & home setting.
- Follow a multi-disciplinary approach and provide specialist assessment and intervention.
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Requirements
- This vacancy is Sussex wide and the ability to travel, even in remote areas over weekends and bank holidays, is essential for the role.
- Travel across sites is essential for this role.
Benefits
- The post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see the attached Protocol Document for full details).
- Work in a supportive team of mental health practitioners from nursing, OT, social work, and support worker backgrounds.
- Deliver crisis assessments, brief interventions to young people and their families/carers who are experiencing a period of mental health crisis, with a particular focus on maximising skills and competencies in activities of daily living.
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Working in West Sussex
- Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns.
- Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London.
- Easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK offer plenty of opportunity for adventure.
We’d love you to join our organization that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognize that care for patients is our top priority.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, please contact:
- Name: Fabio Caggi
- Job Title: Service Manager
- Email Address: fabio.caggi@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 07922590668
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