Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Hybrid working, flexible hours and a warm welcome accompany this opportunity to work creatively with Young People and their families.
We are the Youth Team, Great Yarmouth and Waveney, a multi-disciplinary Team promoting positive Mental Health in Young People aged 14 to 25 years.
We strive to be dynamic and creative and are dedicated Mental Health Professionals, focussing on the needs of Young People and providing a needs-led approach to working and seek like-minded clinicians to work alongside us in supporting Young Peoples Wellbeing and Mental Health.
Opportunities within the role include:
+ Offer of a compassionate and needs led approach
+ Working as the clinician you trained to be
+ Demonstrate your clinical prowess, Duties will include, but not exclusive to:
+ Assessments of Young People
+ Caseload holding
+ Multi-agency working; including family, acute hospital, primary care sector, social care, education and voluntary services
+ Triage of referrals
+ Working with Young People on a one to one basis
Supporting the Duty role within the Team
The post holder will undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multiagency environment.
Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs.
Support and advising to other health care professionals. To support aspects of service development
Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant UEA students.
To be accountable for own professional actions.
Participate in mental health promotion.
Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE Guidelines).
Effective personal planning and organisation of daily work load.
Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands.
Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high quality of care.
Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others., EQUAL OPPORTUNITIESApart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures - these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.

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.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
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.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we'd love you to join us!, We value multi-agency collaborative working and encourage Service User Participation, supported by our People Participation Lead. Our Care Group is on an incredible and exciting journey and continually striving to improve our offer.

We encourage individuals not only to ensure that they are able to meet the requirements of the Job Description, but also that they are able to demonstrate a commitment to encompassing our Trust's values of Positively, Respectfully, Together; we are committed to promoting a positive culture in the workplace for everyone. Our successful applicant will be joining an established high-performing Team, who are continually working hard to support Young People in need of our Services.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits and in addition:
+ 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
In addition, we are pleased to offer the benefits of a High Performing Business Support Team; supporting you, supporting Young People.