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Job Summary
23.25 hours per week.
The Infant Mental Health Practitioner role sits within The Infant Mental Health Pathway within The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Plymouth working to a model of delivery that meets the needs of Infants, children, young people and families in the city.
We are looking to recruit an Infant Mental Health Practitioner band 6 WTE into our Infant Mental Health Pathway to work with children 0-5 years and their families. The direct work will cover the 0-5 years age range with consultations with families & professionals, providing targeted therapeutic interventions and assessments within the I-THRIVE framework. This will also include delivering bespoke training to external services.
The team is a community-based, innovative and needs-led response to infants, young children and families across the full care pathway.
Main duties of the job
To work as an Infant Mental health practitioner as part of CAMHS infant mental health pathway to deliver consultation, assessment & therapeutic interventions working with infants; young children from 0-5 years old & their parents/carers within I-THRIVE model. Co-ordination & implementation of evidence-based targeted assessments/interventions in a timely manner using outcome measures. Maintain standards of care to highest level within available resources. To actively participate in line management junior members of staff. To provide consultation to parents with completing request for involvement through a self-referral process & sign-posting to other services. To liaise effectively with the other CAMHS pathways across the city. To develop & maintain relationships with providers, statutory & non-statutory. To maintain confidentiality in respect of the Infant & Families at all times. Communicate clearly with children, their families & all other health professionals. Actively participate in clinical governance & quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit. Deliver training to staff both within & external to Livewell when indicated & within scope of experience. To complete Livewell child protection supervisors training in line with the safeguarding policy & to be able to provide child protection supervision. Attend & contribute to the team meetings.
About Us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
Job Responsibilities
The Infant Mental Health Practitioner role sits within The Infant Mental Health Pathway within The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Plymouth working to a model of delivery that meets the needs of Infants, children, young people and families in the city.
We are looking to recruit an Infant Mental Health Practitioner into our Infant Mental Health Pathway to work with children 0-5 years and their families. The direct work will cover the 0-5 years age range with consultations with families & professionals and delivering training when required.
The team is a community-based, innovative and needs-led response to infants, young children and families across the full care pathway.
To work as an Infant Mental health practitioner to deliver consultation, assessment and interventions working with infants & young children from 0-5 years old and their parents/ carers.
Co-ordination and implementation of evidence-based targeted interventions incorporating outcome measures.
To co-ordinate and contribute to assessment to ensure that infants and young children access timely assessments and the appropriate targeted interventions.
Take a lead in representing CAMHS in multi-agency meetings and have oversight of mental health element of a multi-agency plan around a child.
To function as a member of the Infant Mental Health Pathway taking appropriate responsibility for the implementation of decisions made by the team.
Maintain standards of care to highest level within available resources.
To actively participate in line management with senior and junior members of staff.
To liaise effectively with the other CAMHS community teams across the city.
To develop and maintain relationships with providers, statutory and non-statutory.
To maintain confidentiality in respect of the Infant, Children and Families at all times.
Communicate clearly with children and young people, their families and all other health professional groups about their mental health problems.
Actively participate in clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit, essence of care or clinical policy development.
Deliver group work to patients and/or families of patients.
Deliver training to staff both within and external to Livewell when indicated and within scope of experience.
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