Are you looking for a new challenge and rewarding career in Children and Young People's Mental Health Services?
An exciting new role within the Livewell Southwest Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). We have the opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to work for 1 year in a pilot in the Young People's Substance Misuse Treatment Service in Plymouth.
We have the opportunity for a resilient, innovative, and motivated mental health practitioner who is passionate about improving the lives and mental health of our young people to work in a pilot with the young people's substance misuse service in Plymouth.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route; please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information regarding eligibility.
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7-day service.
Main duties of the job
This role is to offer mental health assessment, intervention, and consultation to the young people accessing this service who present with a comorbid mental health presentation. You will provide a pathway between CAMHS and the young people's substance misuse treatment service to ensure smooth transitions for this group of young people. The post will be located within a team with The Children's Society, who will provide clinical supervision and support any training needs. They, however, will sit within CAMHS and will receive caseload/line management from CAMHS.
Please note this is a permanent post; if this pilot is not funded past 2025, the applicant will be moved to a vacancy in the wider CAMHS Service. We cannot say what part of the service, but you will have full-time employment. We felt as a Service in these difficult times it would enable clinicians with an interest to apply knowing they have security of a permanent position at the end of the pilot but also the opportunity to work in a new exciting role.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we are guided by our values: kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability while empowering staff and those we serve.
We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.
We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.
Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions, and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.
Job responsibilities
This is an exciting new role being developed in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). A CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner that will specialise in working with Children and Young People who present with substance misuse issues and co-morbid mental health presentation within the Young People Substance Misuse Treatment Service in Plymouth. They will be co-located within the Sharp Team. However, will be line managed and caseload management within CAMHS and clinical supervision in the Substance Misuse Service.
The post holder will provide:
1. Assessment
2. Psychological Interventions (this could include Motivational Interviewing to help young people focus on strengths and finding solutions. Training can be provided if needed).
3. Consultations with other agencies and professionals
4. Health Promotion
Our young people don't fit into boxes or models of therapeutic delivery; we hope this new post will attract the type of clinician that will adapt to the young person's presentation using all their skills, enabling the CYP to come into The Young People Substance Misuse Treatment Service in Plymouth and back out again without the need to access longer-term CAMHS interventions.
The successful applicant will also be supported to undertake additional therapeutic training depending on the skills they arrive in our service with.
This role will also undertake line management and caseload management and supervision responsibilities for junior staff to support their development and the applicant's development.
To work with children and young people who may present mental health difficulties.
Co-ordination and implementation of evidence-based interventions in a timely manner, in collaboration with the other clinicians across the CAMHS Pathways.
The postholder will need to have an awareness, knowledge, and understanding of therapeutic principles to inform their practices and to support in providing interventions, outcomes so delivery best outcomes for CYP.
Assessments and interventions will come external to this post and from internal routes.
Providing 15 contacts with young people and families each week.
To support the delivery of evidence-based group programmes for children and young people with mental health issues from a portfolio of available CAMHS training.
Take a lead in representing CAMHS in multi-agency meetings such as EHAT, SEND meetings, or child protection meetings to coordinate and have oversight of the mental health element of a multi-agency plan around a child.
To function as a member of the CAMHS Service taking appropriate responsibility for the implementation of decisions made by the pathway.
Ensure planned interventions are implemented effectively and evaluated using Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROMS).
Maintain standards of care to the 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 Pathways.
To develop and maintain relationships with providers, statutory and non-statutory.
To maintain confidentiality in respect of the young people at all times.
Communicate clearly with children and young people, their families, and all other health professional groups about their health problems.
Actively participate in clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit, essence of care, or clinical policy development.
Ensure that children and young people are encouraged to play a part in decision-making about the help they need and how they can access specific interventions. This is to promote person-centered planning.
Provide Clinical Assessment and supervision for students.
Person Specification
Skills
* Evidence of skills in the following area:
* Ability to prioritise workload
* Robust and positive approach towards risk assessment
* Ability to work effectively under pressure.
* Ability to identify and refer on for unmet need.
* Working effectively with patients who may have a variety of communication difficulties.
* Triaging referrals based on clinical urgency.
* Culturally competent assessment and intervention skills
* Specific therapeutic skills relevant to working with young people and families.
* Self-motivating and able to work on own initiative.
Experience
* Post-registration experience of working with people with complex mental ill health within the community
* Experience of working collaboratively with the client and their families/carers.
* Completing complex mental health assessments in a variety of different settings in the community and signposting to relevant services.
* Relapse prevention and Recovery Principles.
* Experience of providing clinical supervision, mentoring, and teaching to students and other health professionals.
* Previous experience of working at a Band 6 level or 2 years post-registration experience
* Experience of working with children and young people.
* Staff appraisal skills.
* Work flexibly in order to respond to service need.
* Positive attitude to change.
* Positive attitude to working within a complex mental health environment
* Committed to developing and improving mental health services.
Qualifications
* RMN, RSCN or RN(LD) registered with NMC
* or
* Occupational Therapist/Social Worker (registered with HCPC)
* Diploma level specialist training/experience or equivalent
* Further relevant training/courses
* Clinical Supervision training.
* Evidence of completion of statutory and mandatory training.
* Experience of working within children's mental health providing interventions
* Post-graduate modules in CBT or other therapeutic principles
* Understanding and awareness of therapeutic principles to support with providing interventions within children's mental health.
Knowledge
* Mental Health Act
* Mental Capacity Act
* Crisis Care Concordat
* CPA
* Clinical Risk Assessment
* Safeguarding Children
* Clinical governance
* Systm1, Care First or other electronic records system.
* eCPA
* Relevant Livewell Southwest policies and procedures
* STORM assessment
* Knowledge of common physical health issues that may affect people with a severe and enduring mental health problem.
* Awareness, knowledge, and understanding of therapeutic principles to inform their practices and to support in providing targeted, outcome-oriented interventions
* Knowledge of outcome measures
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.
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
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