Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Northern General Hospital Town Sheffield Salary £35,392 - £42,618 pa/ pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 05/05/2024 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Sheffield Occupational Health Service provides a high quality occupational health service to NHS Trusts, Universities and a number of private sector clients mostly within the Sheffield area.
We are looking to recruit a OH Mental Health Practitioner, with experience of working within the Occupational Health team in an NHS care. The post holder will need to have extensive experience working within the NHS in various Mental health settings.
The post holder will promote positive Mental Health in the workplace and advise Managers on Mental Ill-Health issues in the workplace, e.g. recognising anxiety, stress depression. Other duties will be to provide support to departments/groups of staff in crisis e.g. coping with change.
This post will work as part of the OH Service delivering services to all clients and will provide excellent opportunities to gain experience in a large Occupational Health Service working alongside experienced OH Nurses, Specialist Nurses, Occupational Physicians, Occupational Health AHP’s and Administrators.
As well as dealing with the broad range of occupational health work you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team but also autonomously within a framework of clinical governance and peer supervision, prioritising the delivery of care based on assessment of need.
Main duties of the job
To raise awareness of Mental Health issues in the workplace.
To update bank of current self-help literature or online information.
To refer to multidisciplinary team within Occupational Health and other outside agencies / GP where necessary
Provide short-term intervention only.
To provide training on Mental Health issues in the workplace complementing current and future planned provision.
To advise managers on Mental Health issues in the workplace and on the management of individual cases where employees are on long-term sickness or have persistent short-term absence.
To work pro-actively undertaking group work with those departments who have high sickness absence levels due to Mental Health issues.
Working for our organisation
Sheffield Occupational Health Service provides a high quality occupational health service to NHS Trusts, Universities and a number of private sector clients mostly within the Sheffield area.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC or HCPC qualified practitioner working in acute Mental health services
* Counselling
Experience
* Significant post registration experience within varied different settings
* Ability to identify and assess needs of service users in relation to Mental Health and work
* Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983
* Evidence based practice
* Community experience
* Short term therapeutic interventions
* Drug alcohol knowledge
Knowledge and Awareness
* Knowledge of occupational health
* Knowledge of how to manage stress, anxiety, depression
* Knowledge of occupational health in the NHS
* Excellent communication skills- written and verbal
* Experience in multi-disciplinary shared care
* Experience in screening clients to refer to therapeutic support.
* Experience of gathering data and producing reports.
* Good interpersonal skills necessary to build rapport and positive relationships.
* Awareness of Health and Safety requirements.
* Ability to demonstrate innovative thinking in problem resolution.
* Ability to work proactively in dealing with service delivery.
* Strives for continuous improvement in areas of personal and service development.
When selecting to apply via NHS Jobs, you will be redirected to our preferred recruitment system called Trac. You will be asked to create and submit your application via the Trac recruitment system.
You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. All communications should be sent via your Trac system account.
If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Tracy Bennett Job title Occupational Health Clinical Nurse Manager Email address tracy.bennett1@nhs.net Telephone number 01142715329
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