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Job summary

Main area
Community Mental Health
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 09:00hrs to 17:00hrs)
Job ref
364-A-5446-J
Employer
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Latton Bush Centre
Town
Harlow
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum plus 5% HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/05/2024 23:59

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Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Band 6

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

  • We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
  • We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Our vision and values

Our Vision

“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values

  • We Care
  • We Learn
  • We Empower

Our strategic objectives

  • We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
  • We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
  • We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
  • We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

  • Mental Health Services
  • Community Health Services
  • Learning Disabilities Services
  • Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory. 

Job overview

We have an opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner to join our established First Episode Psychosis Service and developing At Risk Mental State service.  The aim of the service is to provide recovery-focused treatment and support via personalised care plans for individuals who are presenting with a First Episode Psychotic disorder: supporting them from diagnosis to recovery, to enable them to lead the lives they wish to live.  You will work with a Multidisciplinary Team: a spectrum of clinical professionals that includes Nurses, Psychologists, Support Time Recovery workers, etc.  

This position is suitable for either a qualified Nurse or Social Worker and whilst past experience of working with this service user cohort is desirable it is not essential as training will be provided to the successful candidate. 

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of an established multi-disciplinary team and support future service development.  You will attend the weekly Multi-Disciplinary Team meeting to ensure full oversight of service user needs.

You will act as a Care Co-ordinator for an identified caseload of approximately 15 service users from initial assessment to their transfer to system partners via the delivery of personalized care that is recovery focused.  This will include the completion of comprehensive risk assessments/risk management plans.

You will support service users, their carers and wider support networks by providing education to enhance their understanding of mental illness with the aim of preventing relapse and hospital admission. 

You will oversee medication management by monitoring concordance, efficacy and potential adverse reactions whilst providing education as to the role that medication play in terms of recovery. 

You will work alongside the service leads to ensure all NCAP requirements/Key Performance Indicators are attained and sustained. 

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

  • Season Ticket Loans
  • NHS discounts for staff
  • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
  • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
  • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
  • Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Act as a Care Co-ordinator:  providing and oversight of the management and care of service users.

Produce accurate and timely documentation in line with your Professional Code of Conduct.

Undertake comprehensive assessments, formulating personalized care plan that reflect the needs of the service user, their family and wider support networks: including carer assessments.

Undertake risk assessments, attend the weekly MDT meetings to ensure whole system has oversight of identified risks and risk management plans.

Provide education to service user, their care network and system partners.

Administer medication, as required: assess for adverse reactions, review concordance and efficacy.

Engage in any required commissioning processes by completing Mental Health Nursing Needs Assessment, Care Act Assessments and contribute to Self-Directed Support assessments/packages.

Participate in service development reviews and NCAP audits.

Work  closely with the Team Manager and Clinical Manager with regards ti meeting Key Performance indicators, future service development and implementation of the Teams Operational policies. 

Act as a supervisor for lower graded staff, as required to do so.

Complete all mandatory training in line with Trust policy and attend in-house development training. 

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) is dedicated, as an organisation, to the provision of high quality service user care and treatment whilst supporting staff to develop and progress their clinical skills and knowledge.  

The West Essex Locality has excellent access to both London and Cambridge with the service operating from dedicated sites in Uttlesford, Loughton and Harlow.  These areas cover a range of communities that vary from the more vibrant to the quieter rural setting.  

Person specification

Car Driver

Essential criteria
  • Car driver and access to own vehicle
Desirable criteria
  • Non-Medical Prescribing or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of previous experience of working within community mental health setting
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of further learning

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of professional qualification
Desirable criteria
  • Awareness of Care Act/commissioning process

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveDisability confident leaderImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Essex Family Friendly Employers

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ian Buchanan
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01279 637400