Mental Health PractitionerNHS
Job summary
This post offers a Golden Hello of up to £2000.
As we work towards our goal of providing an integrated service across primary and secondarycare, our community mental health services are being transformed to recognise the changes inhow people want to access them. We need to support those who have experienced barriers toaccessing services which support their mental health, due to, the complexity of their needs, or theconfiguration of our services.
We are seeking practitioners with experience of providing rapid and responsive assessment, signposting and brief treatments to join us at this exciting time as a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (MHP). You will be a qualified Nurse or Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, with the relevant professional registration (NMC, HCPC, BASW).
Employed by SPFT, this Mental Health Practitioner post works within the Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner Team within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT). The role will support the embedding of specialist mental health expertise at a neighbourhood level within GP practice settings.
Main duties of the job
You will work as a Primary Care MHP ensuring:
1. Patients with mild to moderate mentalhealth need access the most appropriate treatment for their mental health difficultythrough delivery of rapid and responsive triage, assessment, signposting and brief treatment(1:1, group based and digital platforms).
2. The embedding of mental health expertise in a primary care setting. Working alongside VCS and NMHT colleagues to ensure a holistic, joined up approach for patients with mild-moderate and stable, severe mental health needs, ensuring the most appropriate pathway according to presenting need. You will provide advice and consultation to VCS colleagues in managing issues of complexity and risk, as well as clinical assessment, signposting and brief treatment (1:1 and / or group based) to individuals referred to the clinical element of the service by VCS colleagues within the MDT.
Covid-19 full vaccination may be a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.
Job description
In order to be a successful Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be:
- A qualified Nurse or Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, with the relevant professional registration (NMC, HCPC, BASW).
- Motivated by developing a newly created role, within a new service provision
- Experienced working within a mental health setting
It would also be advantageous if you are:
- Experienced working in a Primary Care setting
This is a hybrid role, working from home and from bases. Although your employer will be SPFT you may be based within GP practice.
About us
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups 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, home-working, part time hours, 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, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Other key survey results:
- 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
- 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
- 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Detailed job description and main responsibilities.