1x 37.5 & 1x 23.25 hours per week.
Are you passionate about Children/Young Peoples mental health and want to make a real difference? A career in Kirklees core CAMHS team as a band 6 Mental Health Practitioner may be what you are seeking.
We are recruiting a MHP with experience working in mental health to help us strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of the young people and their families in our communities.
Our vision is to deliver high quality care that is safe, simple and easy to access.
In return we offer a supportive induction, supervision, development/training, pension and consider flexible working. Staff counselling, salary sacrifice schemes and supportive staff networks are readily available for staff to participate in.
This opportunity involves a complex core CAMHS caseload, delivering therapeutic interventions and managing risk.
We place staff health and wellbeing at the top of our agenda and it is important for us to recruit a person whose values and beliefs align with our Trust values.
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
You will have the right attitude, skills and knowledge to share our passion in delivering the best quality care experience for children and their families.
Your duties will be related to the delivery of clinical care in the form of evidence based psychological therapies to children, young people and their families accessing CAMHS, performing duty assessments and facilitating groups.
The role would suit a person who has experience of working with children, young people and their families who are experiencing mental health and trauma difficulties.
The role would suit a strong team player, with excellent work ethic and values, tenacity and emotional resilience.
The CAMHS team is a strong and supportive team and has excellent structures to offer regular supervision.
You will be working alongside an established, cohesive and friendly team at an exciting and important time in our development, as we push forward with implementing new ways of working in order to best meet the needs of the population we work with.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will:
1. Provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs.
2. Work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals.
3. Promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.
4. Provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a wide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision from a senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
KEY RESULT AREAS:
1. Support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.
2. Provide assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the most severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of settings to address need. This will include working with the CAPA model.
3. Apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.
4. Be committed to a quality approach for patient care.
5. Demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained effort in assessment of complex family issues.
6. Manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual need.
7. Operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework.
8. Provide training, consultation and supervision to other service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff as required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and families.
9. Participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision.
10. Undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners.
We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we 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
Qualifications
Essential
* Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine.
* Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
* Membership of professional body.
Desirable
* Post Registration qualification e.g. degree.
* Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
* A teaching and assessing qualification.
Special Knowledge and Skills
Essential
* Good verbal and communication skills.
* Ability to manage own caseload.
* Good negotiation skills, and problem solving skills.
* Customer service orientation.
* Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
* IT skills.
* Good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.
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.
* Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
* Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive.
* Clarity of decision making.
* 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).
Experience
Essential
* 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.
* Multidisciplinary team working.
* Inter-agency liaison and consultation.
* Experience of supervising/mentoring junior staff.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance e.g. NHS plan, Mental Health Legislation, Childrens act, Education Act, Working Together, Childrens NSF, Every Child Matters, etc.
* Clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
* Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice.
* Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organisations.
* Experience of safeguarding children and young people.
Desirable
* Experience of community settings.
* Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
* Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
Training
Desirable
* Training and experience relating to specialist CAMHS.
* Experience of delivering training to others.
Employer details
Employer name
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Folly Hall Mills
St Thomas' Road
Huddersfield
HD1 3LT
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