Neighbourhood Mental Health Team Group Practioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with Group Work Experience to join the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Adur, covering the coastal area. This role will be based in Adur, but will be offering Group Interventions to patients in the neighbouring community service in Shoreham. The role will delivers groups alongside 1:1 sessions for clients in secondary care. The service provides a psychoeducational group program offering transdiagnostic interventions supporting patients with their recovery, but with a focus on the Complex Emotional Needs Pathway and Structured Clinical Management groups. This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational, functional and creative groups. The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals for group work as well as supporting the daily running of the service across three sites., The post holder will be responsible for assessing patients (which includes assessment for suitability for the group work provision in the Service ), and providing individual therapeutic interventions to support the group work. You will take a lead in the facilitation of groups and managing your own clinical case load, you will also have Lead Practitioner responsibility for a small caseload of patients requiring group intervention and 1:1 reinforcement sessions. This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills in working within a psychological framework, and facilitating and developing a group offer in the local NHMT's. The group practioner role provides an excellent supervision package to facilitate this learning. This role will require you to process referrals and manage the team on a day to day basis. You will have supervision responsibilities and need to liaise with colleagues in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams.

We deliver interventions across the coastal patch, including: Adur, Arun and Worthing NMHT's. The post holder will sometimes be required to travel across sites. As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. Your benefits:

• Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Free parking on-site
• Access to a host of discount schemes
• A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC
• Excellent NHS Pension
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)