Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner

Our Children, Family & Young People Services across Suffolk are seeking dedicated Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join their existing team. We have opportunities throughout our services, and want to hear from passionate individuals who share our values. We are confident that being part of CFYP Suffolk would enable you to be the Registered Mental Health Practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. Joining our team will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference. Ideally you'll have experience and skills in working with young adults and their families. Our dedicated team is compassionate and responsive. There are processes to review our work, to develop areas of good practice, therapeutic skills and support learning and development of staff. Mental Health has never been more in the public eye and now more than ever our profession needs to adapt and change to meet the changing needs of our patients and the evolving health and social care integrated systems. As a secondary mental health workforce, we need to build upon and diversify our compassionate and inclusive leadership when delivering high quality care and diversify into new roles. If you'd like the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, intriguing role then we'd love to hear from you! Please see the attached 'Applicant Letter' for a full list of services within our Care Group - we have numerous bases in Bury St Edmunds. Main duties of the job We recognise that qualified staff make up one of the largest proportion of our workforce and we value the expertise and professionalism that you will bring. Managing and assessing risk is a large part of our role and as a team we robustly make decisions in complete collaboration with all systems. As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of young people, working collaboratively with families and other supporting agencies to manage needs, as well as holding a caseload and undertaking duty. You can expect regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development, you'll be providedwith a full induction program and access to extensive training and career development. We are committed to formulation and ensuring that the pathway of the young person is based on the biosocial model of care and that the voice of the young adult is heard and validated throughout their episode of care. We are seeking a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach with our service users, their families and their network.

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become a sign off mentor
Experience Essential
• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience in delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
Desirable
• Experience in delivering group based interventions
• Experience in supporting service development
  
  Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about. Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.


• 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.