Mental Health Practitioner
2 weeks ago
We are looking to recruit a full time Mental Health Practitioner to work within the Children, Family and Young Person's Mental Health (CAMHS) Team in Great Yarmouth and Waveney. The positions will both be based at Northgate Hospital in Great Yarmouth, but there is some flexibility with hybrid working.
The successful applicant will work with children, young people (0-14 years) and their families, with the principal objectives of providing consultation, training, mental health assessment and short-term therapeutic interventions.
The post holder will work in collaboration with colleagues from health, education, social care teams and the voluntary sector. We are looking for staff with an Occupational Therapy, Social Work or Nursing background, and qualifications in any of those areas.
We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner who can provide assessment and goal-focussed, evidence-based interventions to young people who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health. The post holder will be required to offer generic mental health assessments and be part of the Duty Clinician rota for urgent response, in addition to having their own caseload.
You should have excellent communication skills and a good level of competence with ICT systems. You should have experience of risk assessment, an understanding of formulation and the ability to work collaboratively with young people and their families.
**Benefits included with this role are**:
NHS pension
A comprehensive in-house and external training progreamme
Career progression
Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum (increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service, plus bank holidays)
Staff physio service
NHS discounts and many more
**The job will involve, but is not limited to**:
- to carry out mental health assessments of young people, individually or jointly with staff from other agencies
- to hold an individual caseload, possibly with other professionals and consultation/support in a greater number of other cases, as required
- to provide specialist mental health advice to, and assessments with frontline workers where the needs of young people cannot be resolved at Tier 1 / universal services
- to individually undertake direct work with children, young people and their families where clinically indicated using evidence based therapeutic interventions, to improve mental wellbeing eg: behaviour, cognitive, family, psycho-dynamic, solution based therapies
- to maintain clinical and professional responsibility for a defined caseload
- to liaise with colleagues and other professionals or agencies as required, including attending case conferences, planning meetings etc.
- to promote clinical effectiveness by the use of clinical protocols and clinical audit
- to refer service users to alternative care where detailed assessment indicates a different level of service
- to develop and offer training packages for multi-agency workers/professionals involved in the care of children and young people
- to ensure own knowledge and skills are updated by complying with continuing professional development programmes or events and Statutory/Mandatory training
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