Senior Mental Health Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Job Summary

ROLE SUMMARY

The post holder will undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi- disciplinary and multi-agency environment.

Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs.

Support and advising to other health care professionals. To support aspects of service development.

Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant UEA students.

To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.

To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.

To ensure the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team

 

Main duties of the job

Clinical

To be accountable for own professional practice, in line with your professional body.

Participate in mental health promotion.

Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE Guidelines).

Provide training and support for colleagues, including non-statutory and statutory agencies.

Effective personal planning and organisation of daily workload

Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service- demands.

Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high quality of care.

Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others.

Attend all mandatory training as required by the Trust and to undertake further training and updating as required to carry out the role.

Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred.

Promote the involvement of service users and carers in the development of the care pathway.

Ensuring that all patients are given full explanation of their care pathway/treatment options, and no decision is taken forward without their consent.

Regularly be involved in service evaluation, audit and/or research studies.

Undertake clinical audit and clinical governance activities as required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
  • Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)

Desirable

  • Recognised Leadership/Management training Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs
  • Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
  • Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions Demonstrable experience in assessment of mental health

Skills

Essential

  • Competent assessment skills
  • Excellent communication and engagement skills
  • Computer skills and experience of using an Electronic Patient Record system
  • Care planning and Risk assessment knowledge and skills

Desirable

  • Prevention and Management of Suicide training
  • Medicine Management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 09 March 2026

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