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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.
Mental Health Practitioner- Incentives apply
Closed for applications on: 11-Jul-2024 08:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Jul-2024 08:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Swandean
- Address
- Arundel Road
- Town
- Worthing
- Postcode
- BN13 3NP
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum / pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
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
We are looking for experienced Mental Health Practitioners on our Crisis Line/111 Mental Health Option service. The service is a 24/7 mental health crisis line for anyone who may be in crisis and in urgent need of help with their mental health.
This role is suitable for Registered Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers who are registered with their relevant professional body (NMC/HCPC/Social Work England).
All work is telephone based working out of our office base in Worthing. You will not carry a caseload and will be trained in triage and risk formulation/assessments.
This is a great development role in which you will supervise staff, offer pastoral care and act as a point of escalation for a team of Call Operators.
For this role you will be required to work a mixture of shifts.
Our Current shifts patterns are Early (07:00-15:00), L1 (13:00-21:00), L4 (16:00-00:00), Night (20:45-07:15)
Standard sign-up bonus of £4k (paid over two years) for all Band 5 - 7 registered professionals who join clinical teams across the Trust. Pro-rata.
Relocation bonus of up to £8k for all registered Band 5 - 7 professionals in line with Trust policy, HMRC tax rules and provision of relocation expense receipts.
Increased rates of pay for unsocial hours (some weekend and evening work) as set out under the Agenda for Change (AfC) guidelines.
Advert
You will be joining a friendly, supportive and dedicated team responding to Sussex-wide callers. The service is free and is available to anyone of any age who is concerned about their own mental health or that of a relative or friend. This includes carers and healthcare professionals.
The line is staffed by a team of experienced mental health clinicians and operators. Although we are not a counselling service, all our staff will listen and help callers to identify and clarify their immediate problems and to explore ways of coping or suggest alternative avenues of help.
To be successful in this role you will share our passion, desire and empathetic approach to supporting people of all ages with complex mental health needs, who are often experiencing crisis. The ideal candidate would:
- Be experienced in risk assessment and management
- Be comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role
- Have ability to work autonomously
It would also be desirable if you had a background within urgent care/ crisis/ liaison service(s).
Being a 24/7 service, having a team who are open to flexibility with working patterns is essential as the Mental Health Practitioner role will include some weekend and evening work. As mentioned, this does however bring with it increased rates of pay for unsocial hours. We try really hard to make sure your shifts work for you while also ensuring we can effectively run the 24/7 service.
Working for our organisation
Career Progression: In this role we will support your leadership development by offering access to our internal Sussex Partnership leadership development course. We strive toward compassionate leadership and flexible support.
Location: The role is situated at Swandean, Worthing (BN13 3EP). More information about the site and travel information can be found: click here
Features of the site include: staff break rooms, free ample parking, Café in Meadowfield Hospital on site.
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, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else.
Key Benefits: Excellent NHS Pension, Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays), Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (Blue Light Card, Health Service discounts, discounted petrol etc.), Free parking on-site, Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team, Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be successful in this role you will share our passion, desire and empathetic approach to supporting people of all ages with complex mental health needs, who are often experiencing crisis.
Requirements:
- Registered with the NMC or HCPC via a core professional qualification – Applications are welcomed from OT’s, Mental health Nurses, Social Workers
- Experienced in risk assessment and management
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role
- Ability to work flexible hours; to include evenings, weekends and nights
- Able to work autonomously
- Ability to travel and work from an office based in Worthing, Sussex as and when required. We hope to secure further SPFT bases across Sussex in the future
It would also be advantageous if you are:
- Have a background within urgent care/ crisis/ liaison service(s)
Flexibility with working patterns to include some weekend and evening work is essential. This does bring with it increased rates of pay for unsocial hours as set out under the Agenda for Change (AfC) guidelines.
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
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
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
- Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
- Experience of supervising staff
- Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
- Experience of working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Understanding of Safeguarding
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lynda Mullins
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07388 227 959
- Additional information
Tanya Flint, SMHL Lead- FLINT, Tanya (SPFT) <[email protected]>
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