Senior Mental Health Practitioner Pru/single Point

6 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an opportunity to join a developing innovative task force as part of a national project to work with young people who attend alternative educational provision as part of the secondary pupil referral unit in Manchester. The post holder will sit within Manchester Secondary Pupil Referral Unit multi-agency taskforce 3 days per week and 2 days per week with Duty and Assessment team in Central Manchester CAMHS based at the Winnicott Centre.

As a senior CAMHS practitioner the post holder will be highly skilled in engaging young people to complete comprehensive CAMHS assessments/interventions and offering support to overcoming barriers to accessing CAMHS. Assessments and interventions are provided in a variety of settings across the city and full support is given by the task force coordinator and the other team members based at the PRU which include youth justice, educational psychology, complex safeguarding social worker and SALT.

They will provide a range of high quality interventions appropriate to the child or young person’s needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, evidence based interventions. The post holder will have a range of skills and knowledge base to deliver clinical aspects of the role in a multi-disciplinary team setting and will be competent to do this work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines. This post entails teaching and supervisory duties to other professionals and junior staff and/or students and regular consultation to the wider children’s service. The post holder is also expected to promote and develop partnerships and interface with other professionals and agencies that work within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health THRIVE Framework.

This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time spent in clinical practice.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To provide a range of high quality interventions appropriate to the child or young person’s needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, evidence based interventions. Based with the PRU taskforce to increase access to CAMHS assessment/intervention for young people who attend the alternative provision and experience barriers to accessing CAMHS. The post holder will have a range of skills and knowledge base to deliver clinical aspects of the role in a multi-disciplinary team setting and will be competent to do this work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines. This post entails teaching and supervisory duties to other professionals and junior staff and/or students and regular consultation to the wider children’s service. The post holder is also expected to promote and develop partnerships and interface with other professionals and agencies that work within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health THRIVE Framework.

This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time spent in clinical practice, with flexibility to travel across the city as part of the PRU outreach approach to engaging young people and families.

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