Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 354-AE-20945-B
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cavendish House
- Town
- Hastings
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa / pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Practitioner - Incentives Apply
NHS AfC: Band 6
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
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
Main duties of the job
To be a successful in this post you will be:
- A Registered Mental Health Nurse/OT/Social Worker
- Able to manage a case load
- A skilled communicator
- Compassionate and recovery focused
- Excellent at documentation and highly organised
- Keen to embrace new ways of working and enthusiastic about improving clinical practice
It would also be advantageous if you have:
- Experience working with adults with severe mental illness
- Experience working in a community team
Our office is right in the thick of Hastings’ vibrant and quirky culture and benefits from amazing sea views, with the promenade right across the road. Hastings still maintains its working fishing beach, as well as the old town, castle, pier and the area has some of the most affordable accommodation in the South East.
Working here
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.
Working for our organisation
Hastings events
May: Jack in the Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_in_the_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).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name
Joy Mashawa, Service Manager
Telephone number
0300 304 0244
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Completion of Mentorship Course/ ENB equivalent
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualifying experience (minimum two years) in relevant care group
- Experience of working alongside people with psychosis and complex health and social care problems in the designated care group
- Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
- Experience of working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working with in CPA process
- Understanding of clinical governance
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervision staff
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate in a clear and unambiguous way
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to develop professional relationship with others
- Ability to develop therapeutic relationships
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joy Mashawa
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0244
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