Overview
JP Medicals Recruitment, a leading NHS healthcare recruitment agency, is currently recruiting a dedicated Senior Mental Health Practitioner (RMN, OT, SW) with HCPC registration to work in regular and flexible shifts at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.
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Job Description
* To assume responsibility for management of a defined caseload using specialist knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning to undertake assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care programs for children and families, liaising with and referring to relevant agencies as appropriate.
* To take an active role in the holistic assessment and treatment of young people who present to the service with mental health problems, especially those that are at risk of or have attempted deliberate self-harm.
* Provide liaison with other professionals and agencies to ensure effective communication leading to a comprehensive and integrated package of care around the young person, their families, and/or carers.
* To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* To offer therapeutic interventions based on evidence-based practice and in line with NICE guidelines.
* To ensure clients’ rights of confidentiality are maintained at all times.
* To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry, report writing, and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice/conduct.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of children, young people, and their families/carers.
* To provide an assessment and therapy service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from various sources, including psychological assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, as well as interviews with children, young people, and their families/carers.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people, and their families/carers.
* To act as an advocate to facilitate the views and choices expressed by children, young people, families, groups, and communities, where appropriate.
How to Apply for a Job in a Senior Mental Health Practitioner (RMN, OT, SW) – Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Please apply online with a copy of your most recent CV if you meet the above requirements and are interested in this position.
Please feel free to email registration@jpmedicals.co.uk, the best nursing agency in the UK.
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