Quality and Safety Senior Practitioner (External Placements)

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

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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

You will be part of the Quality and Safety Review Team, managing, conducting, and reporting on a schedule of quality and safety reviews with external placements, providing assurance that the care of our service users is meeting the Fundamental Standards and Mental Health Act. You will be able to assimilate, analyse and clearly report information that will play a key role in supporting teams on all levels of the organisation, to make informed decisions alongside service users and their families about external placement options.
You will need the ability to travel extensively and spend short periods of time away from home. Ideally you will have a good knowledge and experience of quality monitoring and inspecting mental health inpatient services.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Interview date is yet to be confirmed, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days’ notice, please ensure you check email regularly. 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.
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Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• 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