Primary Mental Health Worker
7 months ago
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
YOUR APPLICATION
**Job overview**:
**Primary Mental Health Worker (PMHW)**
Passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people? Want to work as part of our dynamic community Early Intervention CAMHS service within a friendly, supportive, and creative multi-disciplinary team? Dedicated to providing high-quality advice, support and brief interventions to children and young people under 18 experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. Do you have a professional qualification in nursing, social worker, therapy or equivalent?
Suffolk Early Intervention CAMHS is looking to recruit Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, or Therapists to join us as Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Worker (PMHW) in our Under 18 Wellbeing team on a part time basis (22.5 hours over 3 days).
It is an exciting time to join our service as we make the transition to a place-based approach (3 locality teams - East, Central and West Suffolk) working closely with partners across education, health, and social care.
The roles will be based in our East and Central localities.
**Main duties of the job**:
The PMHW is a diverse and interesting role, working holistically within an MDT, alongside Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP), Psychological Therapists and Counsellors. PMHWs:
- Offer consultation and training for schools and professionals
- Facilitate groups for parents and support delivery of therapeutic groups for children and young people
- Present webinars on children’s mental health
- Undertake assessments and direct work with children, young people, and families, managing a caseload
This role provides you with many opportunities for learning about wider mental health issues for children, young and families and service pathways. You will need to have a good understanding of mental health difficulties, assessment, theoretical knowledge, and a range of therapeutic interventions.
**Working for our organisation**:
Suffolk Early Intervention CAMHS proactively seeks to provide opportunities to develop and enhance the clinical skills and practice of our team, enhancing direct work with children, young people and families. During induction, you will shadow colleagues undertaking assessments, facilitating groups, and providing consultation to schools and other agencies and professionals. Training and support will be provided to gain expertise in delivering an early intervention approach. You will also benefit from regular clinical and management supervision and in-house training on CBT and Systemic approaches.
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
You will work in collaboration with colleagues from health, education, social care teams, youth offending and the voluntary sector and this could include joint assessments with other professionals.
This post requires a core profession of: Nurse, Social Worker, Health Visitor or Occupational Therapist.
These roles will be based in Suffolk in our East and Central Localities - you will be the named Primary Mental Health Worker for a group of schools within your locality. There is a need to travel across Suffolk for meetings and training.
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:
- Professional qualification in nursing, social worker, therapy or equivalent
- Experience within Specialist CAMHS setting
- Clinical supervisory experience and willingness to provide clinical supervision
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