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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
246-CEN7183996
Employer
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Peddars Centre Hellesdon Hospital
Town
Norwich
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 gross per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/05/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust logo

Mental Health Practitioner

Band 5

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.

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

YOUR APPLICATION

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Job overview

We are recruiting a Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Team in  North East Norfolk

We want to recruit Practitioners who can join our trust and established Community Team; bringing with them fresh ideas and fresh ambition. We would welcome applications from newly qualified Practitioners and will support them through their preceptorship process and future development within the team.

Our Trust values of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what this role encompasses.

You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users. We are looking for someone who displays compassion, empathy and sensitivity in your approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging manner.

In return we offer a supportive multi-disciplinary team environment where you will be encouraged to develop your own knowledge of psychosocial interventions and positive health promotion, with first-hand experience of engaging service users.

 

 

Main duties of the job

Our primary focus is on collaborative working; placing great emphasis on recovery.

Many aspects relating to service user recovery is reflected within the assessment tools the patients and staff use and the philosophy that underpins patient centred care.

Main duties of this role include:

Holding a caseload of non-complex service Users

Offering holistic support and monitoring for service users and carers

Administration of depot medication (if you are a Registered Nurse)

Attending weekly team meetings, regular reflective practice sessions and case formulations

 

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you!

Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:-

  • 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.

We are working hard to maintain usual recruitment process however please be aware that we may ask you to be interviewed via MS Teams rather than in person.  Please also bear with us as we endeavour to recruit as many people as we can in unprecedented times.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Valid registration with NMC or Professional Registration with Health Care Professionals Council
  • Mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship training.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Ability to travel independently

Experience

Essential criteria
  • CPA implementation
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in appropriate area
  • Has worked within an MDT setting

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingWomens Staff NetworkCycle to Work

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jo Mason
Job title
Community Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01603421576
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