Mental Health Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity for existing clinicians or newly qualified mental health nurses/social workers/occupational therapists to join the Central Community Mental Health team based at Mary Chapman House, Norwich as a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner. This is a full time (37.5 Hours) post, working with children and young people aged between 0-16 years of age. You will be working in highly skilled multi-disciplinary team with a strong team ethos of supporting each other. You will be supported to develop a strong understanding of your role to manage a caseload, complete assessments, cover duty and delivering evidence-based treatment interventions for our service users. Working in partnership with other agencies will be a big part of the job so good communications skills will be vital. What you can expect is a thorough induction and training / preceptorship period, and opportunities for ongoing development and well as regular and supportive managerial and clinical supervision. If this sounds like the role for you and you wish to become part of a fantastic team and play your part in delivering great care and shaping our future, then please do not hesitate to APPLY!, Day to day the role will involve core duties some of which are listed below: You will enjoy plenty of opportunities for joint working, training, and a sound supervision structure. You can expect a manageable case load and a supportive management team to ensure you're able to work independently but support is never far away if needed. The ideal candidate should have experience in working in a mental health environment and ideally experience in working in community teams. Working in a busy and dynamic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team means every day will be different:

• Managing a caseload via face to face, online and telephone contacts
• Waiting List monitoring via telephone calls
• Undertaking initial assessments on behalf of the service
• Undertaking face to face visits in the community setting including home visits
• Working with service users and their families/carers to care plan holistic goal setting and engage in treatment planning and working in collaboration with internal/external stakeholders
• Attending regular MDT meetings and liaising with colleagues from other services (both internally and externally such as Social Care, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team, U18 Crisis Team CAIST, Adult Community Mental Health Teams, MHT, Acute Hospitals A&E, and third sector organisations)
• Participating in the duty worker rota (Monday to Friday 09:00am to 17:00pm) may be part of this role moving forward
• Valid UK Driving licence is required for this post
  
  Norfolk is a fantastic county with a mixture of rural and urban areas. We have miles of beautiful coastlines with swathes of green and open spaces for you to enjoy.
Why work for us? At NSFT and within the Central CAMHS team 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. Like with most NHS trust NSFT does have its challenges, however, we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey so that together we strive to make continual improvements in the care that we deliver.