Specialist Practitioner Mental Health (Just One Number)

We are on the lookout for a substantive Band 7 to join our team in the Norfolk and Waveney Advice, Support and Access Children and Young people's Mental Health Service.

The Advice, Support and Access service launched 6 months ago and provides a single point of access for mental health support for the Norfolk and Waveney region for children and young people aged 0 up to 25yrs.

Our aim is to find the right support, the right resources and the right services for our young people, when they or there carers reach out for support.

This offers the right candidate an opportunity to hone skills in the triage of mental health referrals, explore and link with other statutory and non-statutory services, and work with a dedicated and supportive team.

The Mental Health access team works within the wider offer of the Just One Number service, a single point of access for the Health Child Service and the Speech and language therapy, this provides us with a huge array of expertise and a proven track record of providing excellent and timely advice guidance and routes to interventions, our work is underpinned by Just One Norfolk web site, our evidence based digital support and resources.

We are only just getting started and now, whilst we look to the next 12 months, is an exciting time to join us.

A unique opportunity to join an award-winning service as it grows to support children and young people'smentalhealthservices locally, your expertise will help us to shape the service and allow you to develop skills navigating a referral to the right service, supporting other clinicians and liaising with the wholeMentalHealthservices to build an integrated network of support and intervention.

The strength of the team is how it shares expertise with a wide range of clinicians and there is an expectation that you would be based at our offices in Norwich., Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

The mental health element of Just One Number opens Monday to Friday 8am-6pm andSuccessful applicants will be expected to work a rotating weekly shift pattern, comprising of an 8 am - 4pm shift one week and 10 am - 6pm the alternate week.