Mental Health Practitioner

5 months ago


Horsham, United Kingdom Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust Full time

We are seeking to recruit a passionate, knowledgeable and dynamic Mental Health Practitioner for young people's support and advice hub, i-Rock Horsham District.

You will be part of developing an innovative and exciting safe space for young people, offering early intervention support to work with them at a crucial time in their lives - to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.

As Mental Health Practitioner, your role will be to provide support to young people during the opening hours of the project, with particular responsibility for managing presentations with complex health and social care needs, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk, offering specialist advice and assessment, and contributing to the development of approaches to work with young people with support needs including mental health, wellbeing, education, employment and training and homelessness.

This post is a 6 month fixed term post.

To provide a needs-led and holistic service to young people aged 14 - 25

Working on a drop in basis; offering listening support, triage, signposting and brief intervention support

Providing specialist advice and resources and through an offer of brief support including sleep hygiene, anxiety management and low mood

**Signposting or referring to appropriate services to do with**: emotional wellbeing education, employment and training, housing and mental health

To offer a flexible approach and be a committed team member

Our vision is to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve.

We're working to achieve our mission and vision through our organisational strategy: people, prevention and partnerships. This involves:
Joining up services in partnership across health, social care, housing, employment and education

Creating and sustaining a collaborative, compassionate and caring organisational culture which promotes inclusion

Using our resources wisely, which includes research, innovation and learning to develop new treatments and develop our workforce

Promoting health, wellbeing and resilience within the communities we serve.

CAMHS services recognise that young people may be affected by challenges to their emotional wellbeing and mental health at all times. With this in mind our responses are required to be dynamic and needs led,. As part of our exciting transformation agenda colleagues may be required to work outside of the 9.5 working pattern.

This would be negotiated on an individual basis and as part of Sussex Partnership NHS trusts wider commitment high quality services, that are both flexible and accessible to all our users whilst supporting colleagues in pursuit of their own work life balance.

**Requirements**:
In order to be a successful Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will:
Be a registered professional with current registration, appropriate to the job role.

Have experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies

Have experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group

**Main Duties**:
Providing support to young people during the opening hours of the project, with particular responsibility for managing presentations with complex health and social care needs, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk

Facilitating sessions and individual activities

To undertake assessments of individuals presenting to the service with complex health presentations, including those children and young people presenting with higher levels of risk.

To provide a highly specialised range of clinical interventions relevant to the care group and have knowledge of evidence-based models of practice.

To respect the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of the child or young person and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.



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