Job summary
The Brighton and Hove Emotional Wellbeing Service (B&H EWS) is recruiting to a Band 6 Nursing / OT / Social Work role in its new Primary Care Network (PCN) mental health teams. The EWS aims to provide GPs with fast access to mental health expertise, preventing further escalation.
The people we work with are usually unable to access IAPT services, but may not meet the threshold for secondary care. We have excellent links to other local teams to ensure seamless movement of service users to third sector agencies, ATS, IAPT, and other SPFT teams where appropriate.
EWSroles are embedded in the PCNs, but benefit from being part of the SPFT family, with excellent training and supervision as standard. This exciting and evolving service integrates closely with voluntary sector partners to provide accessible, high quality clinical consultation, assessment, and interventions.
Main duties of the job
Deans and Central Brighton PCN provides clinical and social support to patients of 7 GP practices.
The PCN aims to improve local population health and break down barriers for patients. Community work aims to de-medicalise distress caused by poverty, isolation, and social fragmentation. Our vision is based on the following principles:
Proportionate Universalism: Improving the health of those with the greatest need, fastest.
Integrating Care: Acting as a bridge between primary care, community services and individuals, to bring healthcare into the community.
Supporting Primary Care: Reducing pressures on primary care by increasing capacity, supporting with clinical targets and providing holistic, preventative healthcare.
Working in the B&H EWS, you will encounter people experiencing a range of mental health needs, and as a Band 6 practitioner you will be sufficiently skilled and experienced to triage, assess, and provide clinical interventions of up to 6-8 sessions. You will work in partnership with the PCN team to provide a bridge between primary and secondary care.
Your interventions will be vital to preventing deterioration in previously stable patients, supporting transition to the right services, and providing safe, evidence-based mental health support. We support blended working options within the needs of the service, and of service users.
About us
Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, and ensures our packages reflect the important work they do. A positive work / life balance brings about health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Speak to us about flexible working: home-working, part time hours, flexible start or finish times, or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Your benefits:
- Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- Access to discount schemes, and excellent NHS pension
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with continuous NHS service)
This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses, and a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).
Job description
Job responsibilities
We welcome a call to discuss these exciting roles in advance of your application:
Deans and Central Brighton Primary Care Network Operational Lead Manager - Laura Fernandez-KayneLaura.Fernandez-Kayne@nhs.net
EWS General Manager - Sussex- Jenny Edge jenny.edge@spft.nhs.uk 07554114329
We are looking for self-motivated, energetic, and creative clinicians. You will have substantial, transferable mental health experience (whether inpatient or community), and up to date professional registration from a core mental health profession. We need a practitioner who can build partnerships, and can work flexibly, adaptively, and creatively
Please note: this role is open to Nursing, OT and Social Work core mental health professions with current registration on the NMC, HCPC or SWE registers.
Counselling and Psychotherapy and other applicants without these core profession qualifications or registration will not be shortlisted.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We welcome a call to discuss these exciting roles in advance of your application:
Deans and Central Brighton Primary Care Network Operational Lead Manager - Laura Fernandez-KayneLaura.Fernandez-Kayne@nhs.net
EWS General Manager - Sussex- Jenny Edge jenny.edge@spft.nhs.uk 07554114329
We are looking for self-motivated, energetic, and creative clinicians. You will have substantial, transferable mental health experience (whether inpatient or community), and up to date professional registration from a core mental health profession. We need a practitioner who can build partnerships, and can work flexibly, adaptively, and creatively
Please note: this role is open to Nursing, OT and Social Work core mental health professions with current registration on the NMC, HCPC or SWE registers.
Counselling and Psychotherapy and other applicants without these core profession qualifications or registration will not be shortlisted.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health professional qualification (Must be one of: Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy
- Include relevant professional registration (NMC, SWE, HCPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-qualifying experience of clinical work with people with a range of mental health problems
- Experience of partnership working within and across various different statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
- Experience in working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of providing low intensity psychological interventions including, provision of self help, behavioural activation, solution focused, guided self help, and a CBT informed approach using a range of delivery models, telephone, face to face , individual and workshops
- Experienced in conducting clinical assessments, including risk assessments
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health professional qualification (Must be one of: Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy
- Include relevant professional registration (NMC, SWE, HCPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-qualifying experience of clinical work with people with a range of mental health problems
- Experience of partnership working within and across various different statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
- Experience in working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of providing low intensity psychological interventions including, provision of self help, behavioural activation, solution focused, guided self help, and a CBT informed approach using a range of delivery models, telephone, face to face , individual and workshops
- Experienced in conducting clinical assessments, including risk assessments
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
