Job summary
Employer heading
Assertive Outreach Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a dynamic and suitably experienced Mental Health Nurse, who is flexible and able to work on own initiative, as well as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team.
Main duties of the job
The assertive outreach mental health practitioner will be embedded in the core community mental health teams. Their role will be to deliver mental health support and treatment to the cohort of service-users who experience complex psychosis and are identified as requiring assertive outreach in North East Essex.
The assertive outreach mental health practitioner will undertake co-produced, personalised care planning with service users where goals and interventions are based on each individual’s strengths, assets and a sense of what will offer them a more meaningful life. This may include supporting service users to be ‘gainfully’ engaged as per their goals in education, employment, volunteering, training, recovery colleges, or other meaningful occupation, and should include relevant collaborative approach.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care for service users who are referred to the Assertive Outreach Service/Pathway, including the assessment and management of risk.
To be responsible for a caseload of patients as the named key worker/care coordinator/lead clinician (or other equivalent title)
To work alongside the service user in meeting the practical needs of everyday life such as activities of daily living, budgeting skills, social structures, leisure activities, etc. in a collaborative manner
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current professional NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of appropriate CPD post qualifications
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in care coordinating people in a community mental health setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in the community under an AOT model
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ensures that the organisational values of being open, compassionate and empowering are demonstrated in all areas of working life
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elaine Verrinder
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Telephone number
- 01255 226050
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