Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

About

We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.

Key details

Location

Site: Chalkhill
Address: Princess Royal Hospital Site
Town: Haywards Heath
Postcode: RH16 4NQ
Major / Minor Region: West Sussex

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Service hours - 9am-8pm weekdays and 10am-6pm weekends)

Salary

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Mental Health

Come and join us

We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed to making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during the interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Are you a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with a passion for working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma and have complex needs? Are you motivated by a role where you can make a huge difference to the lives of young people in a mental health crisis in the community? If so, our senior practitioner post in CAMHS Urgent Help Service is for you!

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a knowledgeable, dynamic mental health practitioner. You will be joining a friendly, supportive and creative multi-disciplinary team, dedicated to providing high-quality crisis care to our young people.

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Your main duties will involve:

1. To provide comprehensive crisis assessment of mental health specific to needs of service area.
2. To manage a small caseload of clients in crisis with complex mental health needs and undertake case management/lead professional/ CPA as needed.
3. To be able to communicate with and meet the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and the individual client.
4. To have experience of and specialist knowledge on interventions to be able to lead in the clinical area.
5. To take a lead on clinical matters and policy development relating to clinical practice.
6. To provide clinical leadership.
7. To be part of recruitment and selection process of different staff professionals who make up our clinical team.
8. To be aware of care group and Trust policies and protocols within the Chyps Directorate.
9. To develop and participate in the delivery of a supervision structure for junior colleagues.
10. Provide clinical supervision to team members to help maintain clinical standards and team wellbeing.

This is a full time (1 WTE) post.

Working for our organisation

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We’d love you to join our Trust that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognize that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In order to be a successful Senior Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be:

• Registered with the NMC/HCPC/SW England
• Experienced in risk management
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role
• Adaptable, organised, compassionate and a team player
• Experienced working within a mental health setting

It would also be advantageous if you are:

• Experienced working in CAMHS (Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services) and/or inpatient settings, experience with developmental trauma, neuro-disability and/or forensic CAMHS.
• A nurse prescriber qualification would also be desirable

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.

The Urgent Help Service supports children and young people who are experiencing mental health conditions and difficulties that are putting themselves or others at risk, for example if they are having psychotic symptoms or showing signs of wanting to take their own life.

The service works closely with the young person, their family/carers to develop a care plan, which sets out their goals and what treatments they have agreed together to try. The team regularly reviews progress to make sure that the treatment is working and helping them to get back on track. If things are not improving they will look at other ways they may be able to help.

Urgent Help pride themselves on a team approach and working together to promote the recovery of our young people.

Interested?

For more information about the post please contact:

01444 472670

We are happy to arrange informal visits –Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

01444 472670

Interview date: TBC

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants, the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarize themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

Applicant requirements

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree/Diploma in occupational therapy or Nursing/Social Work
• Evidence of post qualification study
• Registration with the HPC, NMC or Social Work England
• Training in the use of standardised assessment tools

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience as a qualified mental health practitioner
• Broad experience of working with young people with a range of mental health problems
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Experience of supervising staff and students
• Experience with Looked after and Adopted children
• Experience of multi-agency work
• Experience in applying a range of assessment tools and a comprehensive knowledge of clinical approaches

Documents

• UHS B7 (, 250.8)PDFKB
• Privacy Notice (, 127.7)PDFKB
• DBS Policy Statement (, 231.7)PDFKB

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Nicola Chainey
Job title: Head of Service
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01444 472670