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