Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with Group Work Experience to join the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Adur, covering the coastal area.

This role will be based in Adur, but will be offering Group Interventions to patients in the neighbouring community service in Shoreham. The role will delivers groups alongside 1:1 sessions for clients in secondary care.

The service provides a psychoeducational group program offering transdiagnostic interventions supporting patients with their recovery, but with a focus on the Complex Emotional Needs Pathway and Structured Clinical Management groups.

This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational, functional and creative groups.

The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals for group work as well as supporting the daily running of the service across three sites.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for assessing patients (which includes assessment for suitability for the group work provision in the Service ), and providing individual therapeutic interventions to support the group work.

You will take a lead in the facilitation of groups and managing your own clinical case load, you will also have Lead Practitioner responsibility for a small caseload of patients requiring group intervention and 1:1 reinforcement sessions. This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills in working within a psychological framework, and facilitating and developing a group offer in the local NHMT's. The group practioner role provides an excellent supervision package to facilitate this learning.

This role will require you to process referrals and manage the team on a day to day basis. You will have supervision responsibilities and need to liaise with colleagues in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams.

About us
We deliver interventions across the coastal patch, including: Adur, Arun and Worthing NMHT's. The post holder will sometimes be required to travel across sites.

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

Your benefits:

• Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Free parking on-site
• Access to a host of discount schemes
• A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC
• Excellent NHS Pension
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)

Job responsibilities
This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational, functional and creative groups.

The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals for groups and manage the daily running of the service at this site.

You will also hold a caseload of service users with complex needs and will be expected to use evidence based / client cantered principles to assess, plan and evaluate interventions.

You will take part in staff development, training and supervisions, and a responsibility to supervise and support your team members.

You will need to be an experienced, reflective and enthusiastic practitioner, committed to working in a reflective team with a broad range of experience in the following: working with clients with complex mental health difficulties and their carers, facilitating groups, supervising staff, working within a psychological framework including formulation and using psychological interventions.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Occupational Health Therapist with current registration
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience
Essential

• Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of managing a caseload
• Experience of planning, facilitating and developing group work
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Previous experience of working in the community

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.
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