Job summary
Employer heading
Assistant Practitioner
Band 4
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
“The mission of the Norfolk & Waveney Eating Disorders service is to build meaningful, therapeutic relationships with young people and their families. Instilling hope, enabling change, and supporting recovery.”
We are delighted to be recruiting an Assistant Practitioner to join our Eating Disorders Intensive Day Treatment Team (EDITT). This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative service which is regionally leading the way in Eating Disorders day treatment and due to its success is looking to expand what they offer. The service offers intensive day treatment for young people who require additional therapeutic support to manage their Eating Disorder.
This role is about building relationships, inspiring others, and working as part of a vibrant and skilled team to support recovery for those who access our service. The team pride themselves on working in collaboration with families therefore any experience of enthusiasm to working with young people and their parents/carers would support the successful candidate in this role. The role will include some weekend and evening working.
If you have an interest in specialist mental health services and a desire to help young people and families to thrive, then you may be the right person for our team.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit a motivated assistant practitioner to be part of our multi-disciplinary team who can provide practical, emotional and therapeutic support to young people. Your main duties will involve developing a trusting therapeutic relationship with young people, helping them to build skills and therapeutic knowledge both on a 1:1 and in a group scenario, provide meal support, and support parents/carers alongside other members of the team.
Whilst experience working with young people would make you perfectly suited to this role, we are open to welcoming people from clinical backgrounds who have experience in other areas of mental health. We understand that you will be able to bring with you a wealth of skills and experience to the team and would welcome fresh ways of thinking.
Staff well-being is integral part of our service line and there are lots of opportunities for CPD development, specialist training and supervision, support from experienced colleagues and to be involved in the development of a service that wants to make a difference to people’s lives.
This post offers excellent opportunity for training and experience in the job.
Working for our organisation
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
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
- gym membership
- NHS discounts and many more.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Here at NSFT 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.
If you are interested in joining this exciting and motivated team, please take a look at the detailed Job Description for more information about this post. We welcome requests for further information. Please don’t hesitate to call us to discuss anything about the team or the roles.
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Care certificate or relevant equivalent
- Foundation Degree in Health & Social Care / Mental Health at L5 or Apprenticeship in Health & Social Care / Mental Health L5 or alternative (relevant) academic qualification at L5 (degree)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with Service Users with mental health needs
- Working knowledge and understanding of CPA process
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Mental Health issues
- Risk Assessment
- CPA
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate widely in a clear manner
- Approachable, tactful and diplomatic
- Ability to problem solve
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Baker
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 421 127
- Additional information
Donna Woodcock (Clinical Nurse Specialist) on 01603 978455
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