Mental Health Practitioner for Family Safeguarding Service

2 weeks ago

Bury, Borough of Bury, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS FT Full time

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will 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. As a Mental Health Practitioner, you will be working collaboratively with families to safeguard children and provide high-quality safe and effective care for service users.

Main Duties

  • 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 the Role

This is a unique role with feedback from other pilot sites stating 'social workers and adult specialist staff say that it improves engagement and outcomes for families and they wouldn't want to work in any other way' (DfE published evaluation in 2020). The service offers preventative early intervention and the overall aim is to provide families with the right mental health support, at the right time, in the aim of keeping families together when it is safe to do so.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with post-qualification experience of clinical work with service users experiencing a range of mental health issues. They will have experience of delivering evidence-based interventions in a time-limited framework and be able to assess service users' presenting problems and needs quickly and accurately under pressure.

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.
  • Ability to assess service users' presenting problems and needs quickly and accurately under pressure.

Working Arrangements

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is committed to flexible working and 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.

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