Senior Mental Health Practitioner (Staff Support) - East Sussex

Job responsibilities

Applicants should have experience working in mental health services, eager to provide effective advice and clinical guidance with the determination to make a difference to the lives of others. You should be motivated and confident in working with the team to make a difference to the lives of colleagues, enhancing their experience and positively influencing employee satisfaction. You would be part of a team searching for new ways to boost the health and wellbeing of our colleagues, including preventive initiatives and promotion of self-care.

Opportunities to practice as a mental health clinician within an Ambulance Service are rare, particularly in a staff-focussed role and as such these roles will present you with an exciting and unusual opportunity to enhance and expand your clinical skills and experience.

• This exciting role would suit applicants who possess a related qualification, e.g. Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Mental Nurse, HPC Occupational Therapist or Mental Health Social Worker. registration with relevant clinical practice as a mental health practitioner in either Acute Inpatients, Crisis Teams, Emergency Department Liaison, Single Point of Access or as a Community Psychiatric Nurse

If this sounds like you, and you have a genuine appetite to support staff who work in a variety of very challenging roles, we would very much like to hear from you.

Qualifications

Essential

• oNursing Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Mental Nurse, HPC Occupational Therapist or Mental Health Social Worker. registration with relevant clinical practice as a mental health practitioner in either Acute Inpatients, Crisis Teams, Emergency Department Liaison, Single Point of Access or as a Community Psychiatric Nurse

Desirable

• Post-basic professional qualifications relative to role.

Knowledge

Essential

• oSpecialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience
• oAdult and child safeguarding procedures.
• oFundamentals of clinical risk assessment.
• oCommitment to and evidence of Continuous Professional Development.
• oCommitment to clinical review and evidence-based practice

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of working with psychological trauma/complex mental health conditions.
• oChange management, organisation and prioritisation of workload.
• oExperience of working autonomously being confident in clinical decision making but also having the self-awareness to recognise the need to consult with more senior clinical colleagues as required.

Desirable

• Primary care experience.

Skills

Essential

• Analytical skills to assist in identifying/highlighting unmet need. An ability to use clinical information obtained via assessment to formulate recommendations and appropriate onward referral where warranted. Communicating highly complex condition related information to clients and where appropriate with relevant healthcare professionals.
• Ability to cope with distressing and highly emotive circumstances which could provide exposure to traumatic circumstances and can happen unpredictably during the working day.
• Risk assessment and risk management and crisis management within a community setting
• Being assertive whilst appropriately empathetic tact and diplomacy.
• Developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, empathic and re-assurance skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including verbal and written information
• Effective team worker
• IT literate; sound working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Outlook.
• Ability to manage the requirement for frequent concentration.
• Ability to manage conflict and deal with potential verbal aggression.

Desirable

• Mentorship training

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Flexible, enthusiastic and self-motivated.
• Resilience of character with the insight to recognise when support is required.

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel between sites for work purposes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).