Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

The East Sussex Emotional Wellbeing Service is recruiting for a Band 6 Nursing / OT / Social Work roles within Primary Care Network (PCN) mental health teams in Eastbourne

These roles are embedded in the GP Primary Care Networks (small groups of local GP surgeries in the localities) but benefit from being part of the SPFT staff group, with excellent training and supervision as standard. This exciting and evolving service integrates closely with voluntary sector partners (Southdown) to provide accessible, high quality clinical consultation, assessment, and one-to-one intervention right on the GP's doorstep.

The East Sussex EWS is a developing service presently focussing on flexible, short term one-to-one work. This exciting team offers opportunity and challenge in equal measure to experienced practitioners wanting to be at the forefront of the transformation of East Sussex community mental health services, as these develop into Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams.

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The Mental Health Practitioner will be embedded in the GP Primary Care Network (PCN) and be a key member of the Mental Health Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) working with individuals registered with GP practices within a specific Primary Care Network with mild to moderate and stable severe mental health needs. 

You will communicate closely with service users, GPs, secondary care services (ATS, crisis teams, etc), carers, and voluntary sector networks to make sure people's needs are understood at the earliest point, providing a bridge between primary and secondary care when necessary.

The post holder will provide assessment, signposting and brief treatment (1:1 and / or group based) to individuals referred to the service by a number of clinicians, other members of the Multi Disciplinary Team (including Voluntary & Community Sector (VCS) colleagues, and other primary and secondary care mental health services.

Experience of community and partnership working is required along with the ability to work as part of a wider whole system, enabling and finding solutions together and being able to work flexibly, adaptably and creatively in a developing service within a specific locality.

To provide support to Primary Care staff in the local management of patients with common mental health problems.

To ensure that people referred for intervention by the MHP are quickly and efficiently able to access the most appropriate treatment for their mental health difficulty.

Working for our organisation

As we work towards our goal of providing an integrated service across primary and secondary care, our community mental health services are being transformed to recognise the changes in how people want to access them. We are working in close partnership with a range of partners and our 'experts by experience' to develop and improve our service offer.

Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, and ensures our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. We know that a positive work / life balance brings about massive health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example: home-working, part time hours, flexible start or finish times, or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Your benefits:

·         Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team 

·         Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development 

·         Access to a host of discount schemes, and excellent NHS pension 

·         Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with continuous NHS service)