Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

We are delighted to offer the opportunity to work for a fast paced, caring and recovery focused Adult Community Team Covering West Norfolk.

We provide assessment and treatment for those experiencing an acute mental health need in the community. We work with service users with a variety of mental health concerns, alongside working closely with families and carers as well as external agencies to provide a holistic approach and work in a creative and flexible way to provide a positive outcome for our service users on their recovery journey.

CMHTs provide assessment, formulation, and treatment of moderate to severe mental health conditions. We work with service users who have a serious mental illness that require treatment within the secondary care services. The CMHT work with patients on CTO's, s.117, CPA and conditions such as (but not inclusive) depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, BAD and personality disorder.

Within the last 2 years the Adult CMHT has introduced new processes to develop the service and improve the care that we deliver to the community. This is an exciting time to join a team that has been recognised for reducing its waiting list significantly. We are a friendly and supportive team to work for and have a passion for internal development within the service.

We welcome applicants with an allied health professional background including nursing, occupational health and social work.

Main duties of the job

Are you a highly motivated, passionate, and skilled Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker? Do you believe in keeping Service Users and Carers at the heart of everything you do? Are you interested in developing your leadership skills whilst in a clinical role? Would you like to work in well supported, dynamic, enthusiastic recovery focused community team?

We are openly welcoming people from a diverse clinical background with experience in different areas of mental health. We are looking for innovative and focused practitioners who are determined to make a positive difference to the care of our Service Users.

You will be responsible for the assessment, planning, review and delivery of care and treatment in conjunction with the service users on your capped caseload. You will be expected to support duty cover for the team on a rostered basis and will liaise with other agencies to ensure care needs are met.

About us

Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:-

• 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

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Chatterton House

Goodwins Road

King's Lynn

PE30 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Chatterton House

Goodwins Road

King's Lynn

PE30 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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