Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational health mental health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 30 hours per week (Part time)
- Job ref
- 190-7022-DIR-A
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Practitioner (Occupational Health)
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Sheffield Occupational Health Service provides a high quality occupational health service to NHS Trusts, Universities and a number of private sector clients mostly within the Sheffield area.
We are looking to recruit a OH Mental Health Practitioner, with experience of working within the Occupational Health team in an NHS care. The post holder will need to have extensive experience working within the NHS in various Mental health settings.
The post holder will promote positive Mental Health in the workplace and advise Managers on Mental Ill-Health issues in the workplace, e.g. recognising anxiety, stress depression. Other duties will be to provide support to departments/groups of staff in crisis e.g. coping with change.
This post will work as part of the OH Service delivering services to all clients and will provide excellent opportunities to gain experience in a large Occupational Health Service working alongside experienced OH Nurses, Specialist Nurses, Occupational Physicians, Occupational Health AHP’s and Administrators.
As well as dealing with the broad range of occupational health work you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team but also autonomously within a framework of clinical governance and peer supervision, prioritising the delivery of care based on assessment of need.
Main duties of the job
To raise awareness of Mental Health issues in the workplace.
To update bank of current self-help literature or online information.
To refer to multidisciplinary team within Occupational Health and other outside agencies / GP where necessary
Provide short-term intervention only.
To provide training on Mental Health issues in the workplace complementing current and future planned provision.
To advise managers on Mental Health issues in the workplace and on the management of individual cases where employees are on long-term sickness or have persistent short-term absence.
To work pro-actively undertaking group work with those departments who have high sickness absence levels due to Mental Health issues.
Working for our organisation
Sheffield Occupational Health Service provides a high quality occupational health service to NHS Trusts, Universities and a number of private sector clients mostly within the Sheffield area.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC or HCPC qualified practitioner working in acute Mental health services
- Counselling
Desirable criteria
- CBT qualification
- EMDR qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience within varied different settings
- Ability to identify and assess needs of service users in relation to Mental Health and work
- Be able to demonstrate effective workload management skills
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983
- Report writing
Desirable criteria
- Evidence based practice
- Community experience
- Short term therapeutic interventions
- Drug alcohol knowledge
- First line management experience
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of occupational health
- Knowledge of how to manage stress, anxiety, depression
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of occupational health in the NHS
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills- written and verbal
- Experience in multi-disciplinary shared care
- Experience in screening clients to refer to therapeutic support.
- Experience of gathering data and producing reports.
- Good interpersonal skills necessary to build rapport and positive relationships.
- Awareness of Health and Safety requirements.
- Computer skills
- Ability to demonstrate innovative thinking in problem resolution.
- Ability to work proactively in dealing with service delivery.
- Strives for continuous improvement in areas of personal and service development.
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
- Tracy Bennett
- Job title
- Occupational Health Clinical Nurse Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01142715329
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