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.
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
Job overview
Are you a compassionate, dedicated and motivated Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist who holds a current professional registration and always puts people at the heart of everything you do?
Are you a professional who enjoys working as part of a 'can do' and forward-thinking team as well as embracing the challenge of working autonomously?
EIP Suffolk are currently offering a 12 month fixed term / secondment full time opportunity for a Band 6 AfC Mental Health Practitioner to join our specialist team in East Suffolk.
Previous experience of working with Psychosis within a community setting would be advantageous but not essential.
If you hold an interest in Early Intervention in Psychosis we look forward to hearing from you.
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As a practitioner you will be able to demonstrate a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach to working with our service users and their families. The role includes multi-agency working alongside the family, local acute care services, primary care sector, social care, education, employment and voluntary services to ensure the service users needs are best met.
As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of individuals who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis, working collaboratively with their families and other supporting agencies to effectively address needs utilising the National Mental Health Framework to manage an assigned community caseload.
Alongside our experienced team you will deliver bespoke and timely interventions to our service users, aged 14 – 65 years, and their families in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention Services.
EIP Suffolk offers regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice both as 1:1 and group sessions. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We will offer you a full EIP induction program.
We are confident that being part of our team would enable you to be the practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. This role will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference, whilst having the much wider Trust network across Suffolk.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To act as Lead Professional to an assigned community caseload. To develop collaborative care and support plans with service users and / their families.
To ensure care and support plans are reviewed by the treating team on a regular basis - to include patient voice through completion of routine outcome measures for both EIP and our Trust.
To work alongside colleagues to ensure treatment / support interventions are delivered in a timely fashion to service users and their families / Carers.
To work alongside colleagues to maintain our National 2 week access and waiting time standard. To engage with service duty system rota as assigned.
To ensure completion of complex assessments inclusive of risk assessment and management plans.
To engage with psychologically focused formulation (5 P's) and plan / deliver Brief Psychological Interventions as part of a structured therapy programme.
To engage and contribute to all team / service clinical meetings - weekly MDT; team formulation; morning huddles.
To engage with all supervision forums as available : Managerial supervision on a monthly basis; Clinical supervision groups on a monthly basis; Team reflective practice on a monthly basis.
To engage with and contribute to EIP Suffolk service developments, quality improvement projects and evaluation.
To engage with research projects that maybe available across EIP Suffolk; the Trust or National EIP community.
**Previous Applicants Need Not Apply **
Please be aware that, due to the high number of applications for certain roles, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
YOUR APPLICATION
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart 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
This post may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.