Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner
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Job Description: Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (MHP)
Job Overview
This post offers a Golden Hello of up to £2000.
As we work towards our goal of providing an integrated service across primary and secondary care, our community mental health services are being transformed to recognise the changes in how people want to access them. We need to support those who have experienced barriers to accessing services which support their mental health, due to, the complexity of their needs, or the configuration of our services.
About the Role
We are seeking practitioners with experience of providing rapid and responsive assessment, signposting and brief treatments to join us at this exciting time as a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (MHP). You will be a qualified Nurse or Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, with the relevant professional registration (NMC, HCPC, BASW).
Employed by SPFT, this Mental Health Practitioner post works within the Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner Team within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT). The role will support the embedding of specialist mental health expertise at a neighbourhood level within GP practice settings.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring Patient Access: Ensure patients with mild to moderate mental health needs access the most appropriate treatment for their mental health difficulty through delivery of rapid and responsive triage, assessment, signposting and brief treatment (1:1, group based and digital platforms).
- Embedding Expertise: Embed mental health expertise in a primary care setting. Work alongside VCS and NMHT colleagues to ensure a holistic, joined-up approach for patients with mild-moderate and stable, severe mental health needs, ensuring the most appropriate pathway according to presenting need.
- Consultation and Treatment: Provide advice and consultation to VCS colleagues in managing issues of complexity and risk, as well as clinical assessment, signposting and brief treatment (1:1 and/or group based) to individuals referred to the clinical element of the service by VCS colleagues within the MDT.
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Vaccination Requirement
Covid-19 full vaccination may be a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.
About Sussex Partnership
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
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Flexible Working
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, home-working, 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.
About Our Trust
We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey:
- 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
- 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work.
- 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team.
- 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Mairead Blessington
- Job title: Team lead for Primary care and Partnerships
- Email address: mairead.blessington@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01903 493601
Service manager for NMHT: hannah.ryan15@nhs.net
MHP in role in area: sarah-jane.twort1@nhs.net
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