Senior Mental Health Practitioner

2 months ago

Huddersfield, United Kingdom South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Hours per week.

Are you passionate aboutChildren and Young Peoples mental health and want to make a real difference? Acareer in Kirklees CAMHS as a Mental Health Practitioner may be just what youare looking for.

We are recruiting a Nurse,Social Worker or Allied Health Professional with post qualifying experienceworking in mental health to help us strive to make a difference to the healthand wellbeing of the young people and their families in our communities.

Our vision is to deliver highquality care that is safe, simple and easy to access.

In return we offer asupportive induction, development and training, pension and consider flexibleworking. Staff counselling, salary sacrifice schemes and supportive staffnetworks are readily available for staff to participate in.

There will be options todevelop your specialist knowledge by working with our PCN (Primary carenetwork) team, to provide mental health intervention in a primary careenvironment with support from our physical health colleagues.

We place staff healthand wellbeing at the top of our agenda and it is important for us to recruit aperson whose values and beliefs align with our Trust values.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

Main duties of the job

You will have the right attitude, skills and knowledge to share ourpassion in delivering the best quality care experience for children and theirfamilies at point of initial contact with CAMHS services.

Your duties will be related to leading on the clinical delivery of care tochildren, young people and their families accessing CAMHS interventions fromfirst presentation to management of existing diagnosed mental healthpresentations.

The role calls for a professional who has vast experience of triagingmental health presentation ideally with children, young people and their familieswho are experiencing mental health and trauma difficulties.

This role has an element of operational leadership and service development.

Part of the job plan entails pre planned and on the day assessments ,follow up assessments, collaboration with GP's within the Kirklees locality,multidisciplinary team working, and referral to suitable services within thearea.

The CAMHS team is a strong and supportive team and has excellentstructures to offer regular supervision.

You will be working alongside a new and exciting team at animportant time in our development, as we push forward with implementing newways of working in order to best meet the needs of the population we work with.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to befully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

About us

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Thisjob description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertakeother duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holderwhen necessary and in line with the service developments.

To provide highlyspecialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highestquality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments andintensive interventions with children, young people and their families.

To work autonomously andcollaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for otheragencies and professionals.

To provider supervisionand teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreedfor the team leader.

To promote safeguardingand the welfare of children and young people.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines andexercise responsibility in accordance with the Trust Policies and procedures.

Thepost-holder will have highly developed skills in assessing the needs ofchildren and their carers based on the analysis of highly complex facts andsituations. Interventions will beplanned based on the assessment information and interpretation of this. The clinical assessment will includegathering appropriate historical information from the child and family, alliedto clinical observation of family relationships and mental state of the childand other family members, and obtaining relevant information from otheragencies. Offering highly specialistexpertise in child and adolescent mental health, ensuring clear documentationin all appropriate case notes and sharing assessments and information with thefamily and all relevant professionals.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

Person Specification

Special Knowledge and Skills.

Essential

Excellent verbal and communication skills. Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner. Excellent negotiation skills, and problem solving skills. Customer service orientation. Excellent record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments. IT skills.

Physical Attributes

Essential

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).

Personal Attributes

Essential

Able to work autonomously and as part of a team. Commitment to 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 licence 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

Essential

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

Post graduate qualification in mental health ( CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling). Masters Level qualification. Formal management or supervisory qualification.

Experience

Essential

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.

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