Senior Mental Health Practitioner – Veterans High Intensity Service Job Vacancy in Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust Norwich – Updated today

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Company Name : Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust
Location : Norwich
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Job Description : 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 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, 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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On Monday 31st January 2022, the Government announced that it is reconsidering the legislation requiring vaccination to be a condition of deployment. Any decision to no longer make the COVID-19 vaccination a legal requirement for certain NHS staff, is subject to parliamentary process. This means, there will now be a period of further consultation following which MPs will vote on whether to reverse the current legislation.

This potential change to government policy means that the Trust has paused activity relating to this and will not be asking you to provide evidence of a vaccination at this time. If you are successfully appointed into a post we will keep you updated with how any changes in law will affect you.
Job overview
Are you a mental health practitioner with an interest in working with armed forces veterans? Do you yourself have experience of working either within or alongside the armed forces? We are looking for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to work within the newly-developed Veterans High Intensity Service.

We are looking for a practitioner who can show a commitment to the particular needs of this client group and an understanding of the key issues, including psychological trauma, that are often experienced by veterans.

In return, we can offer the opportunity to be part of a new and exciting service, specialist supervision, and close links to existing national NHS services for Veterans.

NSFT has been commissioned to provide this service across the East of England. Whilst this service will fully use the capabilities of remote working, travel across Norfolk and Suffolk and the rest of the East of England (Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire) will be essential on some occasions.

The roles will be full-time and for a fixed-term period of 12 months and are part of the wider NSFT Staff Support Service.
Main duties of the job
This new service is to offer a high intensity service to service users who are armed forces veterans, working in partnership with our colleagues in local statutory mental health services and numerous partner agencies that are specific to the needs of veterans. We welcome applications from allied any health professionals as well as nurses.

We are looking for someone who demonstrates our Trust vales of Positively, Respectfully and Together in meeting the needs of this challenging but rewarding client group.

If you want to make a difference in people’s lives and change it for the better, we want you to be part of this team!
Working for our organisation
NSFT have been commissioned to provide this service across the East of England. Within the newly-established Veterans High Intensity Service 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.

We believe that staff, who feel valued and supported by their employers are able to provide better outcomes for our service users.

We will actively promote flexible and working to ensure a healthy work life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Professional registration: Nursing, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology, Social Work or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
Demonstrable experience of working with mental health service users with some degree of complexity and risk.
Desirable criteria
Experience or understanding of the particular mental health challenges commonly faced by armed forces veterans.
Experience of developing new and innovative services.
Skills
Essential criteria
Demonstrable skills in communicating with and engaging with with complex and challenging service users, with MDTs and external partners.
Demonstrable assessment and risk assessment and management skills.
Care planning skills involving multi-agency care.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
Knowledge of the roles of statutory mental health services.
Desirable criteria
Knowledge of the roles of specialist services specific to the needs of veterans.
Other
Essential criteria
Ability to travel independently across the East of England.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Two Ticks – Guaranteed Interview Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)

FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT – Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.

The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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