Mental Health Lead Practitioner

Sussex Partnership foundation Trust have an exciting opportunity for Band 6 mental health professionals with knowledge and experience in mental health, to work as an integral part of the neighbourhood mental health team in the community of Crawley.

You will be based in Crawley providing assessments and treatment for clients with severe and enduring mental health conditions, liaising with acute care services, Crisis cafes in partnerships with local 3rd sector providers, Police Street triage options and Police Custody Healthcare to support clients with their mental health and wellbeing

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

In this role you would be able to foster recovery through empowerment of service users and carers by involving the service user and carer in the planning of their care establishing and maintaining consistent supportive relationships, which encourage increased self-determination and responsibility for service users and their care. You would be able to offer a range of evidence-based interventions and risk management approaches enabling the service user and carers to reduce and manage symptoms and high-risk behaviour.

This role gives practitioners opportunities to be proactive, innovative and creative in delivering care, enabling the facilitation of service user's recovery and engage service users and carers in relapse prevention and crisis plans, providing intervention that maximizes the service user's ability to resolve crisis and prevent hospitalization by working closely with in-patient and crisis services.

This Trust offers the following;

• Excellent starting salary
• NHS Pension contributions
• 27 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Flexible Working patterns
• Child care vouchers
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• NHS Discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme

Working in Sussex:

• Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there's always new experiences to be enjoyed
• Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
• With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

About us

We provide mental health to working age adults in Crawley , West Sussex.

All our clinicians are given opportunities to develop and grow as professionals in the organisation. We provide regular supervision, a supportive working environment and access to training opportunities to assist you to realise your potential.

Please see attached Job Description for further details

• Registered Mental Health/OT/Social worker qualification
• Post Basic Courses / relevant Study Days
• Evidence of CPD

• Three years' 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 of successfully managing a caseload and prioritising clinical work.
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearpa / pro rata for part time