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Mental Health Practitioner

2 months ago


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

We are seeking an experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join our team at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust. As a key member of our Mental Health Support Team, you will work closely with children and young people, as well as their families and carers, to provide comprehensive assessment, consultation, and evidence-based interventions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage a defined caseload of children and young people with mental health difficulties and their parents/carers.
  • Support Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) with developing their clinical practice, psychological formulation, and school engagement.
  • Provide Case Management and Clinical Skills Supervision to trainee/EMHPs within the service.
  • Work in partnership to deliver a range of evidence-based mental health interventions with children and young people, as well as some parent-led interventions.
  • Facilitate evidence-based group interventions with CYP and/or parents.
  • Offer specialist mental health-based consultation, advice, and guidance with professionals.
  • Be responsible for the effective coordination of clinical care provided, including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.
  • Support clinical staff to identify children and young people with emerging mental health needs, as well as psychological formulation.
  • Promote overall access to Kirklees MHST where appropriate.
  • Establish therapeutic relationships with children, young people, and their families and implement evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
  • Plan and organize interventions, ensuring that reviews are held within the required time frames.
  • Ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team, their colleagues, service users, and appropriate others are informed/updated of changes involving current care plans, progress, mental state, and psychosocial factors in line with best practice.
  • Liaise with and advise CYP and families, local authority, and other statutory bodies and third sector agencies, including children's safeguarding as necessary.
  • Communicate sensitive information to carers and relatives.
  • Use a range of inclusive communication styles and channels as appropriate to the task.
  • Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or patients in treatment, where appropriate.
  • Care plan and manage own caseload.
  • Maintain accurate written records on the electronic record system of the Trust.
  • Undertake mental health assessments, with an agreed plan of action and/or care and low-moderate intervention.
  • Set and monitor Goal-Based Outcomes with CYP/parents.
  • Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation which will lead to the development of personalized care packages in line with evidence-based and routine outcome measures.
Requirements
  • Registered Wellbeing Practitioner (Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP), Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP), and Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP)) or Registered Mental Health Practitioner (NMC, HCPC) or Registered Social Worker or KSA equivalent accreditation.
  • Substantial post-qualification experience, some of which must be working with children, young people, and their carers in a mental health or community setting.
  • Experience of working in Primary Care/MHST Services/CAMHS.
  • Experience of managing a caseload of children and young people with a range of moderate mental health needs.
  • Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice.
  • Experience of delivering evidence-based psychological therapy CBT.
  • Experience of working with parents (or with adults).
  • Experience of working in or in conjunction with an educational setting.
  • Experience of providing clinical supervision.
  • Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organizations.
  • Experience working within Early Intervention and Prevention Services.
  • Experience of service delivery via digital platform.
  • Experience delivering training to a diverse audience (or group work).
Personal Attributes
  • Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
  • Commitment to a multi-agency approach.
  • Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
  • Calm, confident, innovative, creative, and assertive.
  • Clarity of decision making.
  • 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).
Physical Attributes
  • Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
  • A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).