Senior Mental Health Practitioner in Stowmarket

The post holder will undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.

Responsibilities:

• Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs.
• Support and advising to other health care professionals.
• To support aspects of service development.
• Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant UEA students.
• To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.
• To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.
• To ensure the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team.

Clinical:

• To be accountable for own professional practice, in line with your professional body.
• Participate in mental health promotion.
• Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE Guidelines).
• Provide training and support for colleagues, including non-statutory and statutory agencies.
• Effective personal planning and organisation of daily workload.
• Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands.
• Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high quality of care.
• Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others.
• Attend all mandatory training as required by the Trust and to undertake further training and updating as required to carry out the role.
• Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred.
• Promote the involvement of service users and carers in the development of the care pathway.
• Ensuring that all patients are given full explanation of their care pathway/treatment options, and no decision is taken forward without their consent.
• Regularly be involved in service evaluation, audit and/or research studies.
• Undertake clinical audit and clinical governance activities as required.

Why work for us?

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk?

The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Melanie Mapston
Job title: Community Team Manager
Email address: melanie.mapston@nsft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01449 745200