Job Summary
We are seeking to recruit a Senior Mental Health Practitioner with a core professional registration (Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy) to work within an exciting new service development within Pennine Care. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working with children and young people and working innovatively across pathways and traditional boundaries to ensure that young people get the right care, from the right clinician/team, at the right time and in the right place in order to improve their outcomes and the families/carers experience of mental health support.
We are looking for an individual with significant clinical and management experience, preferably within CAMHS to lead a team whilst also taking the lead of case management with high level complexity cases.
This is an exciting opportunity for practitioners to work as a Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner offering assessment, support, signposting and brief therapeutic intervention where appropriate to young people who required crisis support within our Children and Young People Crisis Team which includesHome Treatment, Rapid Response and Paediatric assessment pathwayswithin the Pennine Care footprint.
You will work along side the other senior mental health practitioners in the team to be in a team leader role whilst also working clinically within the team including the duty role. Please see the attached Job description and person specification.
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Overview and not an extensive list. Please see full JD/PS attached
Staffing / Management
• To attend and chair team, clinical, business and other meetings as required.
• Presenting findings and service evaluation at conferences and elsewhere in relation to the crisis care pathway
• Management of staff
• To ensure that safe and effective pathways are in place to facilitate the
movement of CYP through services, including the identification and reporting of deficits within service provision
• Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage stakeholders within all sectors, working on a variety of topics
• Proactively involve stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation and or other appropriate mechanisms
Clinical and Professional
• Deliver community-based assessment, de-escalation and therapeutic
interventions (including risk reduction interventions) when children and young people are presenting in crisis or require enhanced support in the community
• Deliver hospital-based assessments and interventions where a young person has been admitted to a paediatric ward to try and facilitate discharge with appropriate community care and support
• Work with young people to offer Early Supported Discharge from hospital-based settings including specialist inpatient mental health settings.
• Support families to offer containment and care during periods of high expressed emotion and crisis
• Work intensively with CYP and those who care for them under a variety of different crisis pathways and lengths of intervention under supervision of qualified mental health professionals
• Provide, or provide access to, a range of quality psychotherapeutic interventions in accordance with CYP assessed needs.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Feb 2025