occupational therapist Ipswich, England
Job description
Based in Ipswich at Mariner House. Our forward-thinking community mental health teams are seeking a band 5 Community Mental Health practitioner to join their team. Working with young people and their families between the age of 18 - 25 years.
We are currently improving on how we work, to ensure that our team can provide an excellent service to our local communities; we have recently invested in clinical lead posts to support our current multi-disciplinary teams to ensure we have clinical nurse specialists and are able to support those recently qualified.
As a mental health practitioner , you will be working with service users with mental health conditions, that require ongoing care and treatment from secondary mental health services. We look to seek new ideas and ways forward and would welcome your experience and views.
It is the ideal time to join our collaborative team as we transform and develop the way we work -although this is a full-time role, we can be flexible and can offer some hybrid working and/or flexible working patterns if needed.
We welcome you to contact us to discuss more about the role and arrange a time for you to have an informal visit and a chance to meet with members of our friendly, dedicated and supportive team.
You’ll play a key role in our service users recovery plan, you’ll complete a recovery care plan collaboratively with them and review this regularly with the aim of the service user being discharged from the service as part of their recovery journey. You will work with the service user, carers, external agencies and other services to ensure the service received is streamlined and cohesive.
You’ll be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team and part of your role will be to deliver assessments and provide treatment, which we will teach and develop with you. You’ll regularly be working with external agencies as part of a service users care, so being able to work well in a team and having excellent communication skills is vital. You can expect a thorough induction and training period, as well as opportunities for ongoing development.
Now is the perfect time to join us. You can expect a manageable case load and a supportive management team to ensure you’re able to work independently but support is never far away if needed.
You’ll be motivated, compassionate, and keen to ensure our service users receive the best possible outcomes.
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.
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.
NSFT is engaged in a process of significant and exciting change with a new Suffolk-wide care group for Children, Young People and Families.
Recent CQC inspection has shown improvements in the services which we plan to build on. This is an exciting time of Transformation of mental health services in Suffolk, creating opportunities for services to recognise and consolidate what they are doing well and also to drive creativity to radically change service delivery. The changes are locally driven, with the aim of embedding mental health services within the community.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- 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
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