Mental Health Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity for existing clinicians or newly qualified mental health nurses/social workers/occupational therapists to join the West Youth Community Mental Health team based at Thurlow House in Kings Lynn as a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner. This is a full time (37.5 Hours) post, working with service users ages 14-25 years of age.

You will be working in highly skilled multi-disciplinary team with a strong team ethos of supporting each other. You will be supported to develop a strong understanding of your role as a Care Coordinator/Assessor becoming skilled at delivering evidence-based treatment interventions for our service users. Working in partnership with other agencies will be a big part of the job so good communications skills will be vital.

What you can expect is a thorough induction and training / preceptorship period, and opportunities for ongoing development and well as regular and supportive managerial and clinical supervision.

If this sounds like the role for you and you wish to become part of a fantastic team and play your part in delivering great care and shaping our future, then please do not hesitate to APPLY!

We welcome you to contact us to discuss more about the role and arrange a time for you to have an informal visit and a chance to meet with members of our friendly, dedicated and supportive team.

Day to day the role will involve core duties some of which are listed below:

You will enjoy plenty of opportunities for joint working, training, and a sound supervision structure.

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.

The ideal candidate should have experience in working in a mental health environment and ideally experience in working in community teams.

Working in a busy and dynamic Youth Community Mental Health Team means every day will be different:

• Managing a caseload via face to face, online and telephone contacts
• Undertaking initial assessments on behalf of the service
• Undertaking face to face visits in the community setting including home visits
• Working with service users and their families/carers to care plan holistic goal setting and engage in treatment planning and working in collaboration with internal/external stakeholders
• Attending regular MDT meetings and liaising with colleagues from other services (both internally and externally such as Social Care, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team, U18 Crisis Team CAIST, Adult Community Mental Health Teams, MHT, Acute Hospitals A&E, and third sector organisations)
• Participating in the duty worker rota (Monday to Friday 09:00am to 17:00pm) may be part of this role moving forward

** Valid UK Driving licence is required for this post**

Norfolk is a fantastic county with a mixture of rural and urban areas. We have miles of beautiful coastlines with swathes of green and open spaces for you to enjoy.

Why work for us?
At NSFT and within the Youth service in Kings Lynn, 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.

Like with most NHS trust NSFT does have its challenges, however, we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey so that together we strive to make continual improvements in the care that we deliver.

Some other benefits of working for the organisation are:

NHS discounts

• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference and be part of our exciting and forward-thinking team, then please click APPLY! We look forward to hearing from you

• Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy Or, Nursing degree or equivalent RN (MH)
• Professional Registration

• Ability to travel independently

• Clinical Assessment
• Safeguarding training
• Prevention and management of suicide training

• Knowledge of psychosocial interventions
• An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government initiative)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£31,049 to £37,796 a yeargross per annum