Primary Mental Health Worker – CAMHS Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area: CAMHS clinician / Children and young people's mental health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 319-6597256IO
Site: Ashington Family Hub
Town: Ashington
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/09/2024 23:59
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients.
Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for 1 Band 5 Primary Mental Health Worker (CAMHS clinician) in the Central locality of Northumberland. This post is available due to the expansion of the early intervention and prevention offers to children and young people across the County. The role will provide targeted 1:1 and group based evidenced based interventions to support those with moderate mental health needs, within the ‘getting help sector’ of the Thrive model.
We are looking for an enthusiastic clinician who is committed to delivering innovative and transformational ways of working, to build on our successful core offers and involvement in a national trailblazer programme. This includes supporting the delivery of our Be You Mental Health Teams in schools’ programmes in trailblazer sites and supporting early help prevention offers within the 0-19 family hub models.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 5, you will be supported to develop your skills to deliver a direct clinical role, providing assessment and brief evidence-based individual and group-based interventions to children, young people, their families and carers, in an accessible and non-stigmatizing environment.
With a strong emphasis on partnership working, this role will include building strong links with a range of universal, targeted and specialist services. The role will provide support to the senior clinicians and universal services through the delivery of consultation models and teaching and training and multi-agency forums and pathways to improve access and capacity building across the wider system.
As a Band 5 Primary Mental Health Worker, you will be supervised by a Band 6 Primary Mental Health Worker. We are committed to promoting continued professional development through access to a range of training opportunities including access to local CYPIAPT programmes. High quality internal and external peer and individual clinical supervisions are provided.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Professional qualification ie: Qualified Nurse, O.T, Psychologist, social worker or a level 6 or above qualification appropriate to CAMHs eg, counseling, CYP IAPT or equivalent level of knowledge and or experience – such as qualified teacher status with post qualifying qualification / experience in children’s mental health
* Registered Mentor. Mentorship Qualification, relevant equivalent qualification or an expectation this will be completed within an 18-month period.
* Degree in relevant subject
* Specialist Post “registration” qualification in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Evidence of leadership skills
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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