Our vision is to ensure that all service users, carers and professionals have access to a crisis service 24/7 that can provide support, advice and assessment in a compassionate, patient and recovery focused way. We believe that crisis is self-determined by the person or people experiencing the situation and that this requires an empathetic and non-judgmental approach, which holds those experiencing the crisis at the very centre.
The vehicle is ready for callouts from 15:00 to 01:30 - 7 days a week, and the onboard team can assist with issues involving the legal framework around, for example, the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and concerns regarding risk to the patient and public.
We want to talk to enthusiastic and caring Senior Mental Health Practitioners with experience of working within a mental health setting. We want people who are passionate about crisis work and ensuring safe and effective interventions are delivered to service users, in conjunction with East of England Ambulance Service. We would welcome a passionate and skilful clinician who empowers others. We are looking for compassionate colleagues with experience of working across CAMHS, LD & Autism, Adult and Later life and who have the enthusiasm to undertake additional training as part of our staff training programme for this role. You may feel you want a change from working in an inpatient setting but want to remain on an alternative shift pattern!
Join us, in partnership with EEAST as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner and turn that vision into reality. The Mental Health Joint Response Vehicle is staffed by an ambulance clinician and a Mental Health Practitioner and can help ensure people with mental health emergencies can get the right care. The car is the first of its kind on the roads in Suffolk and follows the successful rollout of similar vehicles in Norfolk and Essex. The vehicle and emergency clinicians are provided by the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) emergency clinicians while mental health professionals from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation trust (NSFT) join the team.
This is an opportunity to grow your management skills, take on responsibilities and help us shape and grown our service. No two days will be the same, but they will include elements of working in an MDT team, as an additional NSFT service, working with care-teams to support service users.
We are proud of our culture of honesty, team involvement and ownership of quality patient care with job satisfaction. There will be opportunities to be involved with training, strategy and service development. Benefits included with this role are:
* NHS pension
* 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.
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