Mental Health Practitioner

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Are you a qualified Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Registered Nurse? Or a newly qualified Practitioner looking for a developmental role to work creatively with Young People and their families?

We are a dedicated multi-disciplinary Team promoting positive Mental Health in Young People aged 4-14 years old.

We strive to be dynamic and creative and are dedicated Mental Health Professionals, focussing on the needs of Young People and providing a needs-led approach to working and seek like-minded clinicians to work alongside us in supporting Young Peoples Wellbeing and Mental Health.

Opportunities within the role include:

• Offer of a compassionate and needs led approach
• Working as the clinician you trained to be
• Demonstrate your clinical prowess

We value multi-agency collaborative working and encourage Service User Participation, supported by our People Participation Lead. Our Care Group is on an incredible and exciting journey and continually striving to improve our offer.

Duties will include, but not exclusive to:

• Assessments of Young People
• Caseload holding
• Multi-agency working; including family, acute hospital, primary care sector, social care, education and voluntary services
• Triage of referrals
• Working with Young People on a one to one basis
• Supporting the Duty role within the Team

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 work for us?We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

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.

We encourage individuals not only to ensure that they are able to meet the requirements of the Job Description, but also that they are able to demonstrate a commitment to encompassing our Trust’s values of Positively, Respectfully, Together; we are committed to promoting a positive culture in the workplace for everyone.

Our successful applicant will be joining an established high-performing Team, who are continually working hard to support Young People in need of our Services.

Benefits included with this role are: -

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more
• Relocation packages

We are looking for people to join us with enthusiasm, optimism, fresh ideas and energy. We will expect you to want to work clinically but be equally as comfortable being part of strategic decision making.

Please refer to the job description attached for more information.