Assistant Practitioner - Bury South CMHT Adult

at  Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

The Adult Community Mental Health Team based in Bury St Edmunds, are excited to welcome applications from Assistant Practitioners, Nursing Associates, Clinical Support Workers with experience or keen interest in working with complex mental health conditions.
There are endless opportunities available, and we are keen to welcome new faces to join our team on a permanent basis. We understand that to attract the best people, we need to develop career pathways and support staff to reach their full potential.
We are keen to support development opportunities and pathways, such as:
DBT Training
CAPS Training
CBT in Psychosis
Nursing Training
OT Training
And much more!
Does this sound like something you could be interested in? Let’s talk about what opportunities are available to match your skills and experience!
Working in a busy and dynamic Adult Community Mental Health Team means every day will be different. You will be involved in:
Managing a (capped) caseload with a mix of service users, from those under The Care Programme Approach and others that are not
Undertaking joint initial urgent/routine assessments on behalf of the service
Attending multi-disciplinary team meetings with our Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurse Consultants, Clinical Team Managers, Senior Practitioners, Assistant Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals including Consultant Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists
Attending outpatient clinic appointments
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
Medication administration (if qualified to do so) with opportunities to enrol in local university training programmes in medication management
Working with other teams services like; inpatient, Home Treatment Team, Psychiatric Liaison Team, Social Care, The Police, Accommodation and Support Teams and 3rd party sector.
We work with service users on their presenting needs and have many evidence based intervention packages to enhance the Service User experience.
Use of own car and ability to travel independently is essential
Why work for us? 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.
Join our Community Adult Mental Health Service based in Bury St Edmunds. We are currently going through an exciting transformation working closely with our Primary care colleagues and working towards aligning our team with our local GP practices.
Our Trust vales of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what this role encompasses. If you have the right values to join our organisation, you will be supported with a programme of training and development.
You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users. We are looking for someone who displays compassion, empathy, and sensitivity in your approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging presentation.
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 in your local communities, click APPLY!

Please refer the Job description for details