Job summary
- Main area
- Assistant Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-547-25-MH
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highbury Hospital
- Town
- Bulwell
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/05/2025
Employer heading
Assistant Practitioner
Band 4
Job overview
Are you looking for a different, creative and rewarding role?
Do you have experience working in Mental Health and want to make a difference?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Practitioner role for the Live Team.
We are a small team based at Highbury Hospital but work across mental health inpatient wards and units, on a variety of sites. We work collaboratively with staff, patients & community providers - to enhance patient involvement, engagement & experience.
Underpinned by Occupational Therapy, the Live Team do this through the 5 Ways to Wellbeing - delivering, funding & co-ordinating holistic meaningful activity, events & opportunities. This could include sports, yoga, music, pottery, social groups, animal roadshows - no two days are the same!
We are seeking an individual, with skills & knowledge of working with people within mental healthcare, using a recovery focused approach. The post holder will contribute to & co-ordinate a range of projects, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams & services, including wider organisations and agencies to establish strategic partnerships - developing the teams existing clinical activity & pathways.
We are looking for someone who will role-model and provide guidance and direction to others with the ability to engage with a range of people, from a variety of backgrounds, roles and interests.
We provide access to career development opportunities, that will help you grow and succeed.
Main duties of the job
- To identify, plan, co-ordinate, facilitate and review a diverse range of meaningful engagement opportunities, under the 5 Ways to Wellbeing.
- To lead on the co-ordination and dissemination of the timetabling of the above activity for the Live Team, across multiple sites.
- To actively role model and contribute to a positive culture and environment in which meaningful activity and engagement is valued and provided.
- To create and maintain links and partnerships with both internal and external providers and services – in a way that has a clinically evidence-based rationale and meets the strategic need of the Live Team and wider Trust.
- To support others and lead on short and long-term project management, including task planning, finance management (under the supervision of the Budget Holder), implementation and outcome measurement.
- To source, manage and (under the supervision of the budget holder) utilise charitable funds for services and resource procurement.
- To contribute to the administrative tasks and co-ordination of the Live Team service, across various systems and applications.
To use evidence-based knowledge and experience to guide, support and upskill students, team members and wider services, as appropriate and necessary to develop meaning engagement practices.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support and lead in the development and co-ordination of a range of therapeutic activities, engagement opportunities and events. These shall contribute to the holistic enhancement of the inpatient engagement, involvement and experience to aid wellbeing and recovery. The role will also contribute to and support with the co-ordination of wider team and service developments – including therapeutic timetables, charitable fund and grants management, student placements coordination and supervision and wider workforce development initiatives.
Person Specification:
The appropriate person will have:
The ability to carry out physical requirements of the role, such as practical tasks and physical activity-based sessions
A good level of qualification and training, such as Secondary Education Grades 4-9, NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or Equivalent and a willingness to undertaken further training
Experience and knowledge of Mental Health Service and working safely within inpatient setting
Experience and Knowledge of organising, facilitating and reviewing activities, events and groups
A variety of practical skills, including those to deliver activity under the 5 Ways to Wellbeing
IT Skills and Experience, such as Microsoft, Teams and creative design software/apps
The ability to travel to a range of sites regularly, either by public transport or own transport
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.
Person specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Must be able to travel to a range of sites by own or by public transport
Physical Requirement
Essential criteria
- Ability to carry out practical tasks
- Ability to facilitate sessions under out ‘Be Active’ pathway.
Training
Essential criteria
- Willingness to undertake training in response to service need
Desirable criteria
- Project or Event Management
- CPD relating to therapeutic approaches
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with individuals with mental health needs
- Experience of planning and delivering therapeutic activities with individuals and groups
- Risk Assessment and Management
- Experience of liaising with various community agencies
- Experience of working in a team
- Experience of using, under guidance, budgets and monies
- Experience and awareness of therapeutic reasoning and approaches found across AHP disciplines
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working across different organisational boundaries
- Experience of organising events
- Experience supporting team members, such as volunteers or students.
- Experience of administration tasks and systems found within the NHS.
- Experience of fundraising, charitable bodies and grants
- Experience of using and reporting on data sets
Skills
Essential criteria
- Variety of practical skills, such as creative, physical and horticulture based skills
- Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Use of relevant IT systems as required including social medias
- Ability to demonstrate empathy and maintain an honest and non-judgemental manner
- Ability to respond flexibly and adapt to changing situations
- Knows own limitations and when to seek help
- Good team working skills, including working with registered professionals
- Ability to use problem solving skills to work in an enabling and creative way
- Ability to maintain a healthy home/work life balance
- Ability to manage stress, to plan, organise and prioritise a wide and varied workload
Desirable criteria
- Computer literate in Microsoft office
- Contribution to quality initiatives and improvement projects
- Creative software skills, for promotion and communications
- Demonstrate knowledge of evidence-based and recovery focused practice
- Experience of having difficult conversations and supporting the wellbeing of others
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good level of Secondary Education i.e. grades 4-9 at GCSE or equivalent knowledge and experience
- NVQ Level 3 qualification within Health Care or equivalent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Adam Jackson
- Job title
- Clinical Live Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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