Mental Health Practitioner for Family Safeguarding
4 weeks ago
About the Role
We are seeking a skilled Mental Health Practitioner to join our Family Safeguarding Service as a Mental Health Practitioner based in Bury. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with families to safeguard children and provide specialist assessment and interventions for parents of children open to the Family Safeguarding Team who have identified mental health issues which are impacting on their ability to safeguard their children.
Main Responsibilities
- Completing mental health needs and risk screening assessments.
- Signposting service users to relevant services
- Consulting on mental health issues to teams within the Family Safeguarding Service.
- Attending team meetings and group supervisions as needed in Family Safeguarding team.
- Assisting the service user to engage in relevant adult mental health services and contributing to the development and implementation of service evaluation measures.
- Undertaking short-term supportive, psychologically informed intervention work with parents who have anxiety and other mental health difficulties that impacts upon their ability to engage with the Family Safeguarding Service.
- Co-facilitating training, workshops, and disseminating knowledge of mental health difficulties across the team/s.
About Us
The Family Safeguarding Service is based within Bury Council (BC) and the Mental Health Practitioners Family Safeguarding are employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust (PCNFT) and seconded to BC. We therefore work closely with both organisations. PCFT provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across the borough, NHS Talking Therapies Bury and child/adolescent services. We believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as: term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
Requirements
- Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with current registration or other professional registered qualification in a health or social care field
- Post-qualification experience of clinical work with service users experiencing a range of mental health issues
- Experience of delivering evidence based interventions in a time limited framework
- Experience of risk assessment and management
- Experience of multi-agency working
- Experience of working in situations of crisis and emotionally demanding environments
- In-depth knowledge of mental health issues
- In-depth knowledge of issues that impact upon people with mental health issues
- Ability to assess service users' presenting problems and needs quickly and accurately under pressure.
- Ability to determine the most appropriate course of action from a range of available options
- Ability to clearly communicate the outcomes of assessments, verbally and in practice
- An ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary team and be able to work collaboratively with a range of
- Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situations, including safeguarding, family breakdown, serious mental ill health, and risk of self-harm
- A willingness to work flexibly to meet the demands of the service.
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