mental health counselor Hastings, England
Job description
Hastings & Rother Assessment & Treatment Service
Job overview
Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker with a clear understanding of how coordination of care can contribute to an individual’s recovery?
As a Community Mental Health Practitioner in our service you will be supporting service users with severe and enduring mental health problems and their carers. You will hold a caseload and input to the duty function of the team with other responsibilities dependent on your professional qualification. To be successful you will need to be able to work cohesively with other services both within our Trust and with partner agencies. Caring, compassionate and a good communicator, you will have a commitment to improving the lives of our service users through creative, evidence-based practice
This post offers a Golden Hello, or a Relocation package up to a maximum of £2000. (pro rata applies and subject to terms and conditions. Please see attached Protocol document).
We have a monthly academic afternoon as well as a comprehensive package of supervision, appraisal and reflective practice.
Hastings & Rother Assessment and Treatment Service is a multi-disciplinary service for adults with complex mental health problems. Our work is challenging, but we receive regular positive feedback from our service users and carers.
Main duties of the job
To be a successful in this post you will be:
- A Registered Mental Health Nurse/OT/Social Worker
- Able to manage a case load
- A skilled communicator
- Compassionate and recovery focused
- Excellent at documentation and highly organised
- Keen to embrace new ways of working and enthusiastic about improving clinical practice
- Experience working with adults with severe mental illness
- Experience working in a community team
Working here
Quotes from Hastings & Rother ATS staff:
“The team is friendly and there is a lot of support for new starters”
“There are always people around to give you support”
Parking costs are paid.
Hastingsevents
February: Fat Tuesdayhttps://hastingsfattuesday.co.uk/
May: Jack in the Greenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_in_the_Green
July: Hastings Fringe Festivalhttps://www.hastingsfringecomedyfestival.com/
August: Hastings Carnival weekhttps://www.oldtowncarnivalweek.co.uk/events/
Hastings Pridehttps://hastingspride.org.uk/
September: https://www.visit1066country.com/whats-on/hastings-seafood-and-wine-festival-p582171
October: Hastings weekhttps://www.hastingsweek.com/
November: https://www.visit1066country.com/whats-on/hastings-herring-fair-p907581
What you can expect in return
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff, their reward packages reflect the immensely important work their staff do.
If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a busy but rewarding Assessment and Treatment service in a seaside town like no other, then we would love to hear from you.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name
Joy Mashawa, Service Manager
Telephone number
0300 304 0244
