Job overview

Our innovative and award-winning Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Service seeks a creative and flexible Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to join our team.  The Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Team, based in Norwich, supports service users with complex and enduring severe mental illness in the Central Norfolk Locality. As a team we are passionate about creative engagement, and empowering service users with complex needs to achieve their Recovery goals. 

The team is a pioneering multi-agency service, and along with NSFT colleagues (nursing, OT, psychology, psychiatry and pharmacy), we have fully integrated substance misuse support from CGL, social workers from Norfolk County Council, and recovery and peer support workers from Together. As a caseload holding team, we provide rehabilitation support when and where a person needs it – in the community, in supported accommodation, or in-reaching to inpatient settings. 

The successful candidate will be required to work with a caseload of service users and work collaboratively towards rehabilitation goals.  

Main duties of the job

Are you a highly motivated, passionate, and skilled Mental Health Nurse or  Occupational Therapist? Do you believe in keeping Service Users and Carers at the heart of everything you do?  The ideal candidate will have an interest in working within a busy and dynamic specialist rehabilitation service, working with service users presenting with complex psychosis. 

We are openly welcoming people from a diverse clinical background with experience in different areas of mental health.   We are looking for innovative and focused practitioners who are determined to make a positive difference to the care of our Service Users.

You will be responsible for the assessment, planning, review and delivery of care and treatment  in conjunction with the  MDT and service users on your caseload, working as the key worker for a small number of service users (limited to 15).  But will work with any service users who could benefit from your skills and experience.  You will  support duty cover for the team on a rostered basis and  will liaise with other agencies to ensure care needs are met.

The successful candidate can expect to spend the vast majority of their working week in face to face contact with service users, making the use of their specialist clinical skills. 

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more