Assistant Practitioner - Perinatal Community Services

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

Whilst adult mental health experience is ideal, if you have experience with working with service users with moderate to severe mental ill health and their families with a desire to work in Specialist Community Perinatal Services then we would be pleased to hear from you.
As an Assistant Practitioner within the East and Waveney team, you will be working in a supportive team, with a range of professional backgrounds and experience to deliver excellent care to the families we work with.
You will have access to both regular clinical and line management supervision (every 4 weeks). We also offer protected team formulation and reflective practice every month.
The Community Perinatal Team are an investor in people. We believe that staff should have access to good, relevant training that helps them offer the best service to the families that use our service. There are excellent training opportunities available throughout the year with this service.
This is a busy team that covers the whole of Norfolk and Waveney. You will need to hold a drivers licence and have access to a vehicle.
You will require excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to work flexibly.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

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.