South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Are you passionate about helping people understand mental health and learning skills to cope? Are you good at inspiring and up-skilling families and professionals to understand the mental health concerns young people face?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident Primary Practitioner with appropriate experience and skills to join our CAMHS team.
Your work will be the front line of CAMHS and therefore excellent communication, engagement, and de-escalation skills are essential. A commitment to improving service delivery and developing new ways of supporting evidence-based practice is required. As a member of the team, you will also contribute to the wider aims of the service through participation in service development/research.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
As an autonomous practitioner, you will be responsible for holding a caseload of children and young people, providing holistic assessments including risk assessment and planning, whilst also contributing to the delivery of the short-term individualised treatment programmes.
Within the role, you will also work within CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA) being responsible for supporting families and professionals through providing specialist consultation on the phone. You will be involved in the assessment of referrals into the service and deciding the appropriate treatment approach for each referral.
You would be expected to offer support and supervision to identified members of the team.
As a team, we encourage Practitioners to develop specialist interests to work closely with partnership agencies.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible and accountable for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of skilled interventions to address identified needs and risk for allocated clients on a defined caseload. Works within a multi-disciplinary team as a member of a Primary Practitioner team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker / Occupational therapist.
* Experience of mentoring/supporting learners or ability to demonstrate the skills required for effective mentoring.
* Expectation to work toward Practice Educator.
Personal Attributes
* Ability to work as part of MDT.
* Good communication skills. Ability to work on own initiative, with reference to policies and procedures.
* 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).
* A willingness to work flexibly to meet the needs of services users and the team including extended hours.
* Reliable and enthusiastic.
* Motivated and resourceful.
* Professional attitude.
Training
* Assessment and care planning skills and risk assessment and risk management.
* Relevant post-basic qualification and training.
Experience
* Can demonstrate skills in assessing and managing people experiencing mental health problems.
* Can demonstrate skills in assessing and managing risk in a variety of settings.
* Proven ability in assessing the needs and strengths of people and their carers.
* Ability to deliver a range of therapeutic techniques which can be incorporated into one-to-one and/or group interventions.
* Working within an integrated multi-disciplinary environment and co-working with other teams within team meetings, case conferences, and professional meetings.
* Ability to support colleagues and supervise students/trainees.
* Experience of working holistically with adults with an emphasis on coexisting mental and physical health needs that impact on well-being.
Special Knowledge/Skills
* Working knowledge of recent government legislation e.g. Mental Health Act, Health & Safety, Care Programme Approach, Care Act & Safeguarding.
* Able to work incorporating principles of Clinical Governance.
* Knowledge of working collaboratively with people and their carers to ensure their involvement in the assessment and care planning process.
* Shows awareness of cultural diversity and is able to incorporate this into care planning and the delivery of care.
* Knowledge and evidence of using IT systems.
* Good written and verbal communication skills.
* Knowledge of audit processes.
* Knowledge of carer services/issues/assessment.
Physical Attributes
* 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).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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