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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

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.
Contact
- Address
- Swandean
- Arundel Road
- Worthing
- West Sussex
- BN13 3EP
- Contact Number
- 01903 843000
Swift Practitioner - Incentives Apply
Closed for applications on: 29-Feb-2024 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 29-Feb-2024 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- Swift Maywood Clinic
- Address
- 102 Holly Place off Maywood Avenue
- Town
- Eastbourne
- Postcode
- BN22 0UT
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: 9 to 5 Monday to Friday, no out of hours payments
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa / pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AFC: Band 6)
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 in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during 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
Do you want a new experience and open to learning then apply for our band 6 post. We are seeking someone who is passionate about working with complex duel diagnosis within SWIFT mental health and Drug and Alcohol theme. You will need to hold RMN/ RN/ Social Worker or OT professional qualification and have a minimum of 3 years post qualifying experience. You will be joining a long established team of Nurses and Social workers who work in SWIFT Mental health and Drug and Alcohol team. This is an exciting opportunity for anyone wishing to further develop their existing skills and knowledge and be part of parental mental health and substance misuse teams. You will receive additional training to equip you to complete the complex assessments we provide to Children's Social Care to enable best practice for this post.
This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).
Advert
The main duties of the Job are to assess parental mental health and substance misuse the risk and impacts of such to children's well being and development, informed by the safeguarding threshold of children open to ESCC. You will formulate recommendations on your assessment and deliver interventions that are bespoke to the Parent/ Carer/ Guardian.. You will work along side East Sussex Children's Social care to assist with the formulation of risk and safe management of families. We take a whole family approach to our work and often joint work with other Themes within Swift such as Domestic abuse/ Sexual risk/ Psychology. Adering to the integrated joint management protocol for SPFT and ESCC.
Working for our organisation
SWIFT is a jointly commissioned service offer between ESCC and SPFT NHS. The service specification governing assessment delivery is informed by the safeguarding threshold of the case and the referral presentation of the parent/carer or child. Cases will be prioritised based on clinical need and safeguarding threshold. SWIFT takes a whole family approach to risk assessment of Mental Health /Substance misuse,/Domestic Violence and Sexual risk to children and young people focusing on assessing the risks of the carers to the child/children in their care. These assessment of the adults provide East Sussex Children Services locality teams robust information that assist the family assessment/ safeguarding process under children’s care act.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assess and respond to identified risk. To provide a response to priority referrals. To reduce and manage risk in consultation with the SWIFT management team. To communicate information regarding identified risks to colleagues in other services.
- To participate in the safeguarding process through attendance / contribution to core groups, case conferences and MDT meetings and care proceedings – including attendance at Court when required.
- To Manage a case load of complex adults with multi faceted concerns related to poor Mental health and Substance misuse.
- To apply professional skills across the speciality related to your qualification.
- To provide consultation and training to practitioners within Children’s Services and Adult Services on the impact of mental health / substance misuse / on parenting.
- Duties will involve the delivery of interventions in accordance with the agreed SWIFT Service Specification, Service Standards and Clinical Policies and Practice Standards Documents.
- To adhere to Service Specification, Clinical Policies, procedures and Service Standards for ESCC and SPFT and the agreed joint services working protocol for SWIFT.
- To provide supervision to junior members of staff as required.
- To facilitate appropriate support to family members/carers.
- To adopt effective health promotion, harm reduction methods of intervention for families accessing care.
- To develop skills and knowledge in this field.
- Provide education and training to students
- Offer support to medical staff, primary care teams and other professional staff and non-statutory agencies.
- To work in accordance to the latest research and evidence based guidance published for the speciality.
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 familiarise 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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification Registered Mental health Nurse/Social worker/ Occupational therapist
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience of working with mental health / substance misuse / domestic abuse issues /sexual risk
- Experience of child protection
- Experience of supervising staff
- Experience of community working
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Understanding of integrated working
- Have specialist knowledge across a range of work procedures, underpinned by theory and research Professional knowledge acquired through training to degree/diploma level plus relevant experience of working in the community
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Bonner
- Job title
- Clinical Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07881282830
- Additional information
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