Senior MH Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker

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.

BAND 6 COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER - WAVENEY ADULT COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH TEAM

Waveney Mental Health Team are looking for new Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioners. You will be a qualified professional Nurse,
Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with experience of working in the community supporting working age adults with mental health problems
following the Care Programme Approach. The successful candidate will demonstrate a sound understanding of their role as a Care Coordinator
and join our friendly multidisciplinary team of Social Workers, O.T.s and Nurses who are experienced community practitioners. you also will be
part of the triage and assessment process within the team for referrals from the GP surgeries and other services. So, you will need to demonstrate
robust and sound assessment skills. Your potential team colleagues are Assistant Practitioners, Peer workers, Psychologists, Psychological
therapists, Carer’s support, Physical health lead, Employment worker, Psychiatrists and Therapists all ably supported by our admin staff.

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

• To undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with minimal supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• To manage a caseload and the provision of mental health care services to people with mental health care need.
• To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.
• To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.
• To ensure accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team.
• Applicants must hold a full UK driving licence.

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

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.