Mental Health Practitioner (Occupational Health)

Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Hours: 1x 37 hours per week and 1x 18.5 hours per week (or 2x 27.75 hours per week)

Salary: NJC Grade H3 SCP 36-40 £44,428 - £48,474 per annum (pro-rata)

Closing Date: 22nd May 2024 at 23:59pm

Would you like to be part of an exciting opportunity?

We are looking to implement the new role of Mental Health Practitioners into our Occupational Health provision.

As an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse, you could be involved in setting up this new element to our service.

We are looking for experienced Mental Health Nurses who are also accredited (or working towards accreditation) with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), trained in CBT and other therapy techniques appropriate to a workplace setting. Your role will be to provide individual therapy and group sessions, if appropriate, following assessment.  

You will also be provided with training in the role of Occupational Health case management and provide consultations as appropriate, for employees who have been referred into the service in relation to their mental health.

As this is a new service you will be instrumental in the development of the role and appropriate care pathways. This is not a crisis intervention service or a replacement for NHS services but very much a proactive support to help employees remain in or return to work following a period of ill health.

We have a wide range of wellbeing information, support and initiatives available to our employees and as part of this role we would like you to contribute to this mental wellbeing information.

You will be provided with the necessary Occupational Health training, support and Clinical Supervision.

One full-time and one part-time role is available, working over Monday to Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm. We are a small friendly team consisting of Occupational Health Nurses and Administrators working in purpose built Occupational Health department within Bickerstaffe House in the Town Centre. Working at the Council you will have access to a full range of benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing initiatives.

If you would like an informal chat or visit to our department, please contact Karen White, Corporate Health Manager on telephone 01253 478241.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)