Main area: Mental Health Worker
Grade: Band 5
Contract: 12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Full Time - 37.5 hours per week)
Job ref: 395-KM868-24
Employer: NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Cherry Tree House
Town: Folkestone
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/11/2024 23:59
Mental Health Worker
Band 5
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
Come and work for NELFT’s Children and Young People Mental Health Service (CYPMHS) in South Kent Coast and be part of one of the UK’s most innovative healthcare Trusts.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a graduate health professional (nurse, social worker, occupational therapist) to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in South Kent Coast. The service provides evidence-based NICE compliant psychological interventions to children, young people, and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.
You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with experience of working with people with emotional wellbeing and/or mental health difficulties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will:
* Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with the CY-IAPT programme within CYPMHS.
* Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
* Undertake initial school-based and community-based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate.
* Assess and develop plans of care to meet the needs of patients with a variety of conditions.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g., nursing, social work, occupational therapy) or equivalent substantial CAMHS clinical experience.
* To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g., HCPC, NMC) where appropriate.
Experience
* Experience of working with difficult, disturbed, or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
* Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems.
* Experience of assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk.
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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