Assistant Practitioner - Bury South CMHT Adult

at  Norfolk Suffolk Foundation Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people’s and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

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

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

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.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• 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

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.