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Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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About the Role
We currently have a substantive Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner post within Coastal Adult CMHT open to applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, and Occupational Therapists. The team is based in East Ipswich and covers the area from East Ipswich through to rural areas of Felixstowe, Leiston, and Aldeburgh. We are a recovery-focused, multi-disciplinary team providing an effective, supportive, and professional service for our Service users and Carers.
Key Requirements
- Qualified professional with experience of supporting people and their families, preferably in the community.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of your role as a Care Coordinator/Assessor.
- Join our dedicated multidisciplinary team working closely with a range of partners to provide appropriate community interventions for those individuals referred to the team.
Why Join Us
We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge, and experience.
Every individual makes a valuable contribution in the team. We are proud of our staff, and we are looking for people to join us in continuing to develop what the service of Coastal CMHT looks like.
You can expect a manageable case load and a supportive management team to ensure you’re able to work independently but support is never far away if needed.
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Typical Job Roles and Responsibilities
- Working with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team.
- Undertake initial assessments.
- Liaise with statutory and voluntary sectors.
- Contribute to meetings both within the service and in wider networks.
- Effective personal planning and organisation of daily workload.
- Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands.
- Managing and providing a high quality of care.
- Managing a case load of patients that have a range of mental health needs.
- Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient-centred.
- Participating in the duty rota.
- Practicing in line with policy, guidance, and legislation.
- Carrying out risk assessment, crisis, and safety planning.
- Working closely with the ACS mental health team to support our patients, meeting both their mental health needs and their Care Act needs.
- To support patients in being discharged back to primary care.
Why Work for Us?
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.
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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 nursing 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.
Benefits Included with this Role
- NHS pension
- A comprehensive in-house & external training programmes
- Career progression
- Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- Staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
- Relocation packages
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Adrian Matthews
- Job title: Clinical Team Leader
- Email address: adrian.matthews@nsft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01473 279200
Christopher Salter (Non-Medical Prescriber) 01473 279200
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