Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen to support our innovative team in the next phase of its development. We are looking for Senior Assistant Practitioners - Mental Health (band 5) to join our BANK. To help support the substantive team, with the day-to-day advice and signposting of referrals made to the service and the increased volume of referrals we are receiving.
The Advice, Support and Access service launched 6 months ago and provides a single point of referral for mental health support for the Norfolk and Waveney region for children and young people aged 0 up to 25 years.
The Mental Health access team works within the wider offer of the Just One Number service, a single point of access for the Health Child Service and the Speech and Language Therapy, providing a huge array of expertise and a proven track record of providing excellent and timely interventions.
We are looking to cover 8am until 6pm (shifts are 8am-4pm and 10am-6pm) Monday to Friday, shifts will be allocated as the demand of service dictates.
Main duties of the job
Our aim is to find the right support, the right resources, and the right services for our young people. This offers the right candidate an opportunity to hone skills in the triage of mental health referrals, explore and link with other statutory and non-statutory services, help to identify advice and guidance for young people and their parents, and work with a dedicated dynamic and supportive team.
The post holder will be a registered Practitioner and provide clinical expertise to allow the review, information gathering, and triaging of mental health referrals for children, adolescents, and young people (0-25) within Norfolk and Waveney at the Single Point of Access - Just One Number (JON). They will also provide advice, guidance, and support to people with mental health care needs via telephone and other forms of digital technology.
Job responsibilities
* To have clinical expertise in the mental and emotional health needs of children, young people, and their families (covering 0-25 years of age) and be able to elicit information from professionals, carers, and young people to support full assessments via telephone or video call which enable timely clinical decisions to be made.
* To work effectively with other members of the skill mix team within JON, attending and supporting teaching and clinical supervision in order to develop needs-led, evidence-based care that supports local and national priorities and policies as well as relevant clinical guidelines.
* To have a robust understanding of local emotional health provision and provide appropriate advice and guidance to children, young people, and their families, as needed make appropriate referrals and support colleagues to make referrals to the appropriate service.
* To have knowledge of child and young people's mental health needs and local services, involving information gathering, assessment (including risk assessment), and care planning with children, young people, parents, teachers, and being an active link for other stakeholders such as schools, GPs, mental health, and voluntary sector organisations.
* To develop skills and confidence to support colleagues within Just One Number, especially in understanding current mental health needs, risk, and care planning.
* To contribute to the production and maintenance of digital resources on Just One Norfolk and promote these within JON and with other stakeholders allowing the identification of appropriate use of self-help material and understanding when further clinical assessment is indicated.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* Degree in relevant area of study and relevant experience of working in a Mental Health field
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Degree in Mental Health
Experience
* Previous experience of working with children and young adults with mental health needs
* Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management
* Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
* Undertaking a clinical role including multi-disciplinary working, safeguarding, undertaking complex assessments, planning, and evaluating care packages, and responsibility for the management of a caseload
* Partnership Working
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to work regularly unsupervised
* Risk assessment knowledge and skills
* Competent keyboard skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
* Experience of navigating service users to other services and resources.
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.
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
£29,970 to £36,483 a year, pro-rata
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