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Community Mental Health Practitioner

Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Crawley, England
Salary
£27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum / pro rata for part time
Closing date
14 Feb 2023

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Sector
Healthcare
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

Band 5

Job summary Are you looking for a new challenge and want to offer the best care in times of Crisis?

Do you want to help shape the future of the CRHT?

We have a brand-new opportunity for a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with mental health experience to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) at Langley Green Hospital, Crawley.

The CRHT team is a part of acute care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support clients in a mental health crisis. It offers clients care and support in their own homes together with a day service group programme based at Langley Green Hospital as an alternative to hospital admission.

CRHT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission while remaining at home including home visits from our experienced team, with support from doctors and psychology. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to community-based service.

A 'Golden Hello' or relocation package up to £2000 (see attached documentation for T&C's) Main duties of the job As a Community Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will need to actively work together with service users, carers and a wider multi-disciplinary team to help formulate care plans and utilise appropriate assessments. You will be working in a variety of community settings to provide and improve person-centred care of the highest quality. You will be directly involved in developing discharge plans in collaboration with service users and their families, as well as occasionally representing the clinical team at multi-disciplinary meeting and clinical reviews of patient care. You will also be responsible for monitoring and developing treatment plans in order to make progress with service users and ensure effectiveness of interventions. To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID About us We are committed to career development and future aspirations and career goals are discussed openly and supported. Working in Sussex:
  • Travel easily between coast and countryside and enjoy the natural beauty the county has to offer. With a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns, there's always somewhere new to visit
  • Embrace the city life and visit Brighton, or even travel to London in under 90 minutes
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)
  • A 'Golden Hello' or relocation package up to £2000 (see attached documentation for T&C's)
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Date posted 17 January 2023 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 5 Salary £27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum / pro rata for part time Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours Reference number 354-AN-20234-O Job locations CRHT Langley Green Hospital Crawley

RH11 7EJ

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Who we are

We provide specialist NHS mental health and learning disability services in south east England. People receive care, treatment and support from us in hospital, at home and from a range of community services. Our services are rated ‘good’ by the Care Quality Commission and ‘outstanding’ for caring.

Where we are

We provide services for people of all ages across Sussex and services for children and young people in Hampshire. There’s something for everyone in our local area, whether that’s the hustle and bustle of Brighton, the scenic South Downs or our wonderful coastline where you can chill out to the sound of the surf.

What we can offer you

When you join us, you’ll be coming to work in an organisation that puts people first. We’ll do everything we can to make you feel valued, respected and included. You will be given plenty of opportunities here for your career to flourish. We’re an organisation which is strong on innovation, research and learning, and we will support your development and help you learn new skills in whichever team or service you work in.

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Telephone
01903843000
Location
Trust HQ
Swandean
Arundel Road
Worthing
BN13 3EP
GB

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