Mental Health Practitioner Full Time

Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate about high quality care as we are.

NELFT provides award winning community and mental healthcare for over 2 million people. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

We are committed to the delivering the best care for our patients. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values.

We are committed to continuous learning to improve patient outcomes so this means that we are also committed to the professional development of our workforce. We want to ensure you have the opportunity to grow and progress within NELFT, so take the first step on this journey by joining us now.

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with a qualification in Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy to join the Barking and Dagenham Access Assessment and Brief Intervention Team. The post holder will be working within a dynamic and friendly multi-disciplinary team.

Applicants will have at least 2 years’ experience of working within a community mental health setting and will possess excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills as well as evidence based knowledge of working with people suffering from initial mental health problems and also those with recurring mental health problems.

You will be working as part of our multi-disciplinary team and will coordinate the assessment of people referred to the service who are experiencing a change to their mental health. This will include consideration of the carers needs. The service provides in addition to diagnosis and treatment and signposting. There is the opportunity to work with clients over brief periods of time..

We require good IT skills and knowledge of using electronic recording systems.

You will work closely within a multi disciplinary team and other agencies to deliver focused health and social care interventions that includes managing Risk and the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide managerial supervision to junior colleagues, mentor MDT students and participate in on-going educational forums.

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

At NELFT we set very high standards to ensure we provide quality services. We require prospective employees to carry out an online literacy and numeracy test, equivalent to NVQ Level 2. For more information regarding our assessments, please visit our website. If you are shortlisted, invited for interview and successfully offered the post, you will be required to undertake an assessment for these skills during the pre-employment checks.

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £3,553 to a maximum of £4,528).

For further details / informal visits contact:

Gavin Mess or Jayne Pettit 0n 0300 300 1570 [ option 3] or e-mail at gavin.mess@nelft.nhs.uk or jayne.pettit@nelft.nhs.uk

As an employee of NELFT, you will receive the following benefits:

· Excellent working environments in a mix of state of the art and historic buildings

· Agile working with outstanding ICT support

· A long-standing and award-winning approach to Equality and Diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities and LGBT staff

· Staff Benefits including NHS Pension, childcare vouchers, a salary sacrifice car scheme, the MyTrustBenefits discount scheme, cycle scheme and Annual Leave Sale / Purchase scheme, trade union membership and a range of ambassadorial roles

· A focus on staff health and wellbeing featuring subsidised gym membership, access to Mindfulness, walking groups and other wellbeing support.

We have signed the skills pledge and are an accredited Improving Working Lives organisation. We are committed to staff development and offer opportunities which include a wide range of training options and an active Quality Improvement Programme

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity, are Disability Confident and therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community, people of all protected characteristics.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see applying from overseas .

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