Community Mental Health Practitioner - Incentives Apply

at  Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Community Mental Health Practitioner
Hastings & Rother Assessment & Treatment Service
Job overview
Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker with a clear understanding of how coordination of care can contribute to an individual’s recovery?
As a Community Mental Health Practitioner in our service you will be supporting service users with severe and enduring mental health problems and their carers. You will hold a caseload and input to the duty function of the team with other responsibilities dependent on your professional qualification. To be successful you will need to be able to work cohesively with other services both within our Trust and with partner agencies. Caring, compassionate and a good communicator, you will have a commitment to improving the lives of our service users through creative, evidence-based practice
We have a monthly academic afternoon as well as a comprehensive package of supervision, appraisal and reflective practice.
Hastings & Rother Assessment and Treatment Service is a multi-disciplinary service for adults with complex mental health problems. Our work is challenging, but we receive regular positive feedback from our service users and carers.
Main duties of the job

QUOTES FROM HASTINGS & ROTHER ATS STAFF:

“The team is friendly and there is a lot of support for new starters”
“There are always people around to give you support”
Parking costs are paid.
Hastings events
May: Jack in the Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackinthe_Green
July: Hastings Fringe Festival https://www.hastingsfringecomedyfestival.com/
August: Hastings Carnival week https://www.oldtowncarnivalweek.co.uk/events/
Hastings Pride https://hastingspride.org.uk/
September: https://www.visit1066country.com/whats-on/hastings-seafood-and-wine-festival-p582171
October: Hastings week https://www.hastingsweek.com/
November: https://www.visit1066country.com/whats-on/hastings-herring-fair-p907581
What you can expect in return
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do.
If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding Assessment and Treatment service in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you.
We encourage flexible working . We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
This post offers the Trust’s £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).

Please refer the Job description for details