Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Incentives Apply

Are you a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with a passion for working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma and have complex needs?

Are you motivated by a role where you can make a huge difference to the lives of young people in a mental health crisis in the community?

If so, our senior practitioner post in CAMHS Urgent Help Service is for you!

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a knowledgeable, dynamic mental health practitioner. You will be joining a friendly, supportive and creative multi-disciplinary team, dedicated to providing a high-quality crisis care to our young people.

This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).

Your Main Duties Will Involve

To provide comprehensive crisis assessment of mental health specific to needs of service area.

To manage a small caseload of clients in crisis with complex mental health needs and undertake case management/lead professional/ CPA as needed.

To be able to communicate with and meet the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and the individual client.

To have experience of and specialist knowledge on interventions to be able to lead in clinical area.

To take a lead on clinical matters and policy development relating to clinical practice.

To provide clinical leadership.

To be part of recruitment and selection process of different staff professionals who make up our clinical team.

To be aware of care group and Trust policies and protocols within the Chyps Directorate.

To develop and participate in the delivery of a supervision structure for junior colleagues.

Provide clinical supervision to team members to help maintain clinical standards and team wellbeing.

This is a full time (1 WTE) post.

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

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, 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.

We’d love you to join our Trust that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other Key Staff Survey Results Include

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicola Chainey Job title: Head of Service Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01444 472670