Mental Health Practitioner (Emotional Wellbeing Service)

EAST SUSSEX BN27

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Position: Mental Health Practitioner (Emotional Wellbeing Service)
Location: East Sussex BN27
Salary: £48,836 to £52,849
Job Type: Full-Time

Job summary
We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible, innovative mental health practitioners with a passion for primary care mental health & a desire to contribute to service development, to join us as a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner within one of the East Sussex Emotional Wellbeing Services. You will be a qualified Nurse or Allied Health Professional with the relevant professional registration (NMC or HCPC), and a background working in a variety of mental health settings. Working in partnership with other services & organisations to meet the needs of our patients.

You will work in specific PCN’s as a pivotal member of the Mental Health Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), working with voluntary sector Mental Health Support Coordinators (MHSC’s) to ensure a holistic, joined up approach for patients & carers.You will be responsible for providing accessible, proactive & responsive assessment, support & brief clinical interventions to patients within East Sussex.

The Emotional Wellbeing Service in the PCNs will remain fluid & flexible to adapt to individual nuances of each of the practices by breaking down traditional boundaries & providing an integrated approach to each patient. Your role will be key in developing these new roles within the PCNs, you will be supported & encouraged to have a voice to improve this transformation, the experience of patients & also your own working experience.

We are looking to recruit to the following PCN’s:

  • Greater Wealden
  • High Weald
  • Rural Rother
  • The Haven

Main duties of the job
You will be working with individuals registered with GP practices within the PCN with mild to moderate and stable severe mental health needs. You will hold a caseload of patients, providing supportive and enabling interventions from a broadbiopsychosocial and trauma informed perspective. As a member of the PCN MDT you will help improve access for patients to timely, holistic and evidence-based support based on need, improve outcomes and keep people well in their own communities.

The role will be PCN/ community-based, offering assessments, brief treatments and onward signposting advice to patients, supporting GPs and other PCN staff to manage the demand of a range of mental health presentations within the primary care setting.

About us
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.

As part of this exciting transformation, we are expanding our community rehabilitation, personality disorder and eating disorder services, as well as providing investment to our community mental health teams and increasing mental health provision in primary care.

What does this mean for you?
Because we need to recruit a diverse range of people and skillsets to join us, the job (and training & development) opportunities we have on offer are as broad as they are interesting.

Job description
Job responsibilities
This hugely exciting Mental Health Practitioner role will bring together Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT), East Sussex CCG & Southdown, Voluntary & Community Sector provider into an exciting new mental health partnership. You will be employed directly by SPFT but working directly into either:

Greater Wealden, High Weald

The value of this model is that it is closely aligned to the community at a GP practice level, with a partnership approach taken between the PCNs, voluntary sector services and the local NHS provider of mental health services, working with individuals who present with mild to moderate and stable severe mental health needs.

The Emotional Wellbeing Service in the PCNs will remain fluid and flexible to adapt to individual nuances of each of the practices by breaking down traditional boundaries and providing an integrated approach to each patient. Your role will be key in developing these new roles within the PCNs, you will be supported and encouraged to have a voice to improve this transformation, the experience of patients and also your own working experience.

Requirements:

In order to be a successful Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be:

  • A qualified Nurse or Allied Health Professional, with the relevant professional registration (NMC or HCPC)
  • Motivated by developing a newly created role, within a new service provision
  • Experience of partnership working within and across various different statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
  • Experienced working within a mental health setting

It would also be advantageous if you are:

  • Experienced working in a Primary Care setting

Although your employer will be SPFT you will be based within PCN premises.

**East Sussex PCNs:

The PCNs cover different geographical areas (some of which overlap), are made up of differing numbers of GP surgeries/ Medical Groups and serve population groups of differing sizes between 27,000 and 73,000 people.

The PCNs that this role will be covering will be either :-

Greater Wealden
High Weald
Join us and you will be working for a Trust that is continuously developing a working environment and culture which is based on trust, learning, accountability and responsibility, where staff feel empowered to influence and make positive changes to working practices.

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 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.

This post offers a Golden Hello, or a Relocation package up to a maximum of £2000 to new entrants to Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. (Pro rata applies and subject to terms and conditions – please see attached protocol document) – to be moved to lower down/delete if internal only

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

  • Registered Mental Health qualification or equivalent
  • Include relevant professional registration

Knowledge/Experience
Essential

  • Extensive post-qualifying experience of clinical work with people with a range of mental health problems
  • Experience of partnership working within and across various different statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
  • Experience in working consultatively with professionals
  • Experience of providing low intensity psychological interventions including, provision of self help, behavioural activation, solution focused, guided self help, and a CBT informed approach using a range of delivery models, telephone, face to face , individual and workshops
  • Experienced in conducting clinical assessments, including risk assessments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.