Overview
Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner role at NSFT Jobs. Based in Norwich, within the Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Service. We support service users with complex and enduring severe mental illness in the Central Norfolk Locality. The team is creative, flexible and dedicated to empowering service users to achieve their Recovery goals. The service is a pioneering multi-agency model with integrated substance misuse, social care, and peer support components. Roles involve rehabilitation support in the community, in supported accommodation, or in-reaching to inpatient settings.
The successful candidate will manage a caseload and work collaboratively towards rehabilitation goals with service users and the MDT.
Responsibilities
* Hold a caseload of service users and work with the MDT to achieve rehabilitation goals (caseload limited to 15).
* Lead the assessment, planning, review and delivery of care in collaboration with service users and carers.
* Act as key worker for a defined group of service users and provide coordinated care across settings.
* Provide duty cover for the team on a rostered basis and liaise with other agencies to ensure care needs are met.
* Spend the vast majority of the working week in face-to-face contact with service users, applying specialist clinical skills.
Qualifications and Skills
* Registered Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist (or equivalent) with an interest in working with complex psychosis.
* Open to diverse clinical backgrounds; innovative and focused practitioners who can make a positive difference to service users.
Benefits
* NHS pension
* A comprehensive in-house and external training programs
* Career progression opportunities
* Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum, increasing to 33 days (plus paid bank holidays) based on length of service
* Staff physiotherapy service
* NHS discounts and other benefits
For further details or informal visits contact: Name: Melissa Moss, Job title: Lead Nurse / ANP, Email: melissa.moss@nsft.nhs.uk, Telephone: 01603 421 610
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