An exciting opportunity has arisen for x3 Senior Mental Health Practitioners to join our multi-disciplinary team working into a new service within the Warrington area.
Warrington Council in partnership with healthcare is about to open up a care home which aims to support children and young people with complex mental health needs to live at home and in their communities.
The service will offer outreach to families who require support to remain together as well as 4 short to medium term beds registered under the children's homes regulations 2015.
The successful candidates will join the multi-Disciplinary team (MDT), which consists of therapists, social workers, and residential staff. Working jointly to provide holistic care planning, risk management, and therapeutic treatment. The successful candidates will be based within the care home, and they will receive management and clinical supervision from the CYP Crisis Response Team.
We are looking for experienced and inspiring leaders who share our passion for supporting our most vulnerable children.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognize the need to:
1. Promote safe practices
2. Value the aims of service users
3. Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
4. Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
5. Value social inclusion
The team promotes the Thrive model of service delivery and is continually developing innovative and creative practice - so the successful candidate will share our enthusiasm and hardworking approach.
Job Responsibilities
CLINICAL
1. To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work depending on clinical competence and experience.
2. To undertake assessments, treatment, and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
3. To provide direct therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation, and therapeutic input into children, young people, and families referred into the service.
4. Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.
5. To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
6. To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and young people's services.
7. To participate directly in the team's duty rotas.
8. To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial, and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
9. To deliver care coordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning, and risk management processes are maintained.
10. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in cooperation with the child, young person, and carers.
11. To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within the area of specialist knowledge.
12. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families.
13. To provide consultation, advice, and guidance to junior colleagues.
14. To promote effective multi-agency work.
15. To maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, ensuring information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
COMMUNICATION
1. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both multi and uni-disciplinary care.
2. Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young people's mental health services.
3. Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information to children, young people, families, and other professionals within young people's services.
4. Organize and facilitate multi-agency meetings and reviews.
TEACHING, TRAINING, AND SUPERVISION
1. Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice, and commit to continued development.
2. To provide training to other professionals to improve mental health knowledge and skills.
MANAGEMENT, POLICY, AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
1. Identify priorities within the service and advise managers on the level of resources for service development.
2. Contribute to the service's evidence-based practice by engaging with audits and evaluations as appropriate.
RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATION
To maintain up-to-date knowledge of the evidence base in relation to mental health knowledge and other interventions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Core Profession (Social Work or Nurse) and up-to-date Professional Registration (to be maintained).
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of working with CAMHS.
* Experience of mentorship, supervision, and coordination of staff.
* Experience of Care Planning process.
* Working in a multi-agency framework.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
Skills
* Demonstrate sound leadership qualities and an understanding of management styles.
* Ability to communicate in a variety of settings.
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.
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