Mental Health Practitioner - Bury South Adult CMHT

Our Adult Community Mental Health Team in Bury St Edmunds (with satellite bases in Haverhill and Sudbury) is seeking a dedicated Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join their existing team., Working in a busy and dynamic Adult Community Mental Health Team means every day will be different. You will be involved in:

• Managing a caseload for those under The Care Programme Approach
• Undertaking initial routine assessments on behalf of the service
• Attending multi-disciplinary team meetings with our Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurse Consultants, Clinical Team Managers, Senior Practitioners, Assistant Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals including Consultant Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists
• Attending outpatient clinic appointments
• Undertaking face to face visits in the community setting including home visits
• Working with service users and their families/carers to care plan holistic goal setting and engage in treatment planning and working in collaboration with internal/external stakeholders
• Medication administration (if qualified to do so) with opportunities to enrol in local university training programmes in medication management
• We also works with needs types and have many evidence based work books to enhance the Service user experience
  
  We are confident that being part of our team 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 in a community setting. 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., 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.