Young Person's Mental Health Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Meridian Primary Care Network Ltd Full time

Advert closes: 09/04/2024

Potential interview date: 17th or 30th April 2024

Please note this is a FIXED TERM CONTRACT FOR 12 MONTHS ONLY.

**Job Summary**

This is an exciting new role within Meridian Primary Care Network Ltd.

Within this role you will provide specialist support to young people and their families, with a focus on those on the neurodevelopmental diagnostic and support pathway. You will assist with the process of neurodevelopmental assessment, including completing the referral paperwork. You will guiding the family and young person through this process, making sure they are informed and supported throughout.

You will be an integral part of developing this new role within our PCN.

You will work alongside a Young Person’s Support worker and will be actively involved in mentoring their role.

**Primary responsibilities**

The following are the core responsibilities of the Young Person’s Mental Health Practitioner. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

- To work directly with young people and their families.
- To manage their own caseload.
- Engage individuals as active partners in their treatment and support.
- To support families through the assessment process.
- To provide holistic mental health assessments
- To provide advice and information to patients and carers, including signposting to other sources of support.
- To support onward referral to secondary and specialist services where indicated.
- To develop and maintain close relationships with the surgery teams.
- Maintain patient records.
- To work with the Clinical Lead and PCN leadership team to develop and shape this new service and oversee its roll-out across the PCN
- To mentor the Support Worker within your team, developing a team approach to supporting the caseload of patients.
- To provide data and feedback to the PCN leadership team evaluating and measuring the success of the service, helping to shape and develop it moving forwards.

**Secondary responsibilities**

In addition to the primary responsibilities, the Young Person’s Mental Health Practitioner may be requested to:

- To assertively engage with service users, striving at all times to develop good therapeutic relationships, becoming a trusted person for that family.
- To develop professional networks, have an understanding of local resources in order to ensure that the service user is able to navigate the full health and social care system.
- To promote awareness of the professional role across the PCN.
- To demonstrate effective communication skills with people in an age appropriate way and those whose understanding may be impaired.
- To act within the appropriate professional code of conduct at all times.
- To ensure that up to date written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Professional standards and to provide specialist reports relevant to practice setting.
- To keep accurate and timely written and electronic record of each contact, using SystmOne and Emis.
- To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

**Person specification - PCN Young Person’s Mental Health Practitioner**

**Qualifications Essential**
- Registered mental health professional [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role (nursing, OT, SW).
- Good standard of education with excellent literacy and numeracy skills

**Experience Essential**
- Working with younger people and their families

**Experience Desirable**
- Understanding and experience of working within the NHS
- Working in the mental health sector

**Skills Essential**
- Excellent interpersonal skills, communicating with patients, their families and healthcare professionals
- Ability to maintain accurate records
- Be flexible and able to manage sudden and unexpected demands
- Effective time management (planning and organising)
- Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure

**Personal Qualities Essential**
- Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
- Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
- Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
- Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
- Flexible and cooperative
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance and health and safety

**Other Requirements Essential**
- Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
- Evidence of continuing professional developm

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