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Senior Mental Health Practitioner

2 months ago

Huddersfield, Kirklees, United Kingdom South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join our team at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust. As a Mental Health Practitioner, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality care to children and young people with mental health needs.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead on the clinical delivery of care to children, young people, and their families accessing mental health interventions
  • Provide highly specialist skills and expertise in mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions
  • Work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, providing consultation and teaching for other agencies and professionals
  • Provide supervision and teaching to all other disciplines within the mental health team and deputise as agreed for the team leader
  • Promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people
  • Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility in accordance with the Trust Policies and procedures
Person Specification
  • Special Knowledge and Skills
    • Excellent verbal and communication skills
    • Ability to manage own caseload and be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner
    • Excellent negotiation skills and problem-solving skills
    • Customer service orientation
    • Excellent record-keeping and report-writing skills, including care planning and risk assessments
    • IT skills
  • Physical Attributes
    • Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post
  • Personal Attributes
    • Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
    • Commitment to a multi-agency approach/working
    • Ability to work and make decisions under pressure
    • Calm, confident, innovative, creative, and assertive
    • Ability to make and lead decisions under pressure and crisis situations
    • Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities
    • Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services
    • Ability to cope calmly in a crisis
    • To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members
    • A current driving license and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
    • To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent, and respectful
  • Qualifications
    • Relevant professional qualification, nursing, or other professional allied to medicine
    • Post-qualification training in identified portfolio, LD, LAC, eating disorder
    • Dip SW or relevant mental health profession
    • A teaching and assessing qualification
    • Membership of professional body
  • Desirable
    • Postgraduate qualification in mental health (CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling)
    • Masters-level qualification
    • Formal management or supervisory qualification
  • Experience
    • Experience of delivering training to others
    • Extensive experience in identified portfolio requirements
    • Substantial post-qualification experience, some of which must be working with children, young people, and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting
    • Experience of working in different cultural contexts
    • Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity
    • Multidisciplinary team working
    • Inter-agency liaison and consultation
    • Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals
    • Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health, and safeguarding
    • Evidence of advanced clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health
    • Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice
    • Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people
  • Desirable
    • Experience of community settings