Mental Health Practitioner (Band 5-6 Development Post)
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Are you a Band 5 clinician who is looking to make the next step in your career? We are keen to hear from enthusiastic and passionate professionals (including RMN/RN/Social worker/OT) and are able to offer an exciting opportunity for a development 5-6 post within a well-established Crisis Team within Wakefield CAMHS.
The team was developed to promote our focus on supporting the most vulnerable and at-risk young people, improving their access to services, and our response to young people in crisis.
The successful candidates will work both autonomously and as part of an MDT providing timely access to specialist services for children and young people that present in crisis or who present a significant and immediate risk to themselves and/or others. The post will be based in Castleford, however requires an ability to travel to different areas of the Wakefield district. The team operates 8am-8pm 7 days a week.
Main duties of the job
You will manage your own caseload, providing high-quality care appropriate to the young person's needs, including risk assessment and management. You will work through the development competency framework supported by senior colleagues and management. You will need to develop good working relationships with key professionals across the district; therefore excellent communication and engagement skills are essential. A commitment to improving service delivery and developing new ways of supporting children, young people, and families' experiences is crucial to work within the wider CAMHS team. This is a fast-paced role and requires a can-do attitude towards tasks. The team offers outreach to those that are difficult to engage, providing intensive support to prevent admission to inpatient provision. The team also supports discharge from inpatient provision. You will also offer clinical supervision to colleagues.
If you would like to be part of the developing ReACH Team we would love to hear from you!
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health, and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees, and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities; we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families, and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups; we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical, and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job responsibilities
Band 5
The post holder will be responsible and accountable for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of skilled interventions to address identified needs and risk for allocated clients on a defined caseload. Works within a multi-disciplinary team as a member of Specialist CAMHS.
Band 6
The post-holder will provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs; work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals; promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people; provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a wide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence-based practice with supervision from a senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Band 5: Registered Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker / Occupational therapist.
* Band 6: Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine.
* Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
* Membership of professional body.
* Band 5: Mentorship Qualification or equivalent.
* Expected to work towards practice educator.
* Band 6: Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
* A teaching and assessing qualification.
Experience
* Band 5: Can demonstrate skills in assessing and managing people/children and young people experiencing mental health problems.
* Can demonstrate skills in assessing and managing risk in a variety of settings.
* Proven ability in assessing the needs and strengths of people and their carers.
* Ability to deliver a range of therapeutic techniques which can be incorporated into one-to-one and/or group interventions.
* Working within an integrated multi-disciplinary environment and co-working with other teams within team meetings, case conferences, and professional meetings.
* Band 6: Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with children, young people, and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting.
* Multidisciplinary team working.
* Inter-agency liaison and consultation.
* Experience of supervising/mentoring junior staff.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance e.g. NHS plan, Mental Health Legislation, Children’s act, Education Act, Working Together, Children’s NSF, Every Child Matters, etc.
* Clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
* Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice.
* Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organizations.
* Experience of safeguarding children and young people.
* Band 5: Ability to support colleagues and supervise students/trainees.
* Experience of working holistically with children and young people with an emphasis on a holistic assessment of emotional and mental health needs alongside coexisting physical and environmental factors that impact on wellbeing.
* Band 6: Experience of community settings.
* Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
* Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
Training
* Band 5: Assessment and care planning skills and risk assessment and risk management.
* Relevant Post basic qualification and training.
* Band 6: Training and experience relating to specialist CAMHS.
* Experience of delivering training to others.
Personal Attributes
* Band 5: Ability to work as part of MDT.
* Good communication skills. Ability to work on own initiative, with reference to policies and procedures.
* Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
* A willingness to work flexibly to meet the needs of service users and the team including extended hours.
* Reliable and enthusiastic.
* Motivated and resourceful.
* Professional attitude.
* Band 6: Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
* Commitment to multi-agency approach.
* Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
* Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive.
* Clarity of decision making.
* Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
* Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
* Ability to cope calmly in a crisis.
* To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members.
* A current driving license and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
Physical Attributes
* Band 5 & 6: Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Special Knowledge/Skills
* Band 5: Working knowledge of recent government legislation e.g. Mental Health Act, Health & Safety, Care Programme Approach, Care Act & Safeguarding.
* Able to work incorporating principles of Clinical Governance.
* Knowledge of working collaboratively with people and their carers to ensure their involvement in the assessment and care planning process.
* Shows awareness of cultural diversity and is able to incorporate this into care planning and the delivery of care.
* Knowledge and evidence of using IT systems.
* Good written and verbal communication skills.
* Knowledge of audit processes.
* Knowledge of carer services/issues/assessment.
* Band 6: Good verbal and communication skills.
* Ability to manage own caseload.
* Good negotiation skills, and problem-solving skills.
* Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
* Have good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.
* Band 5: Knowledge of audit processes.
* Knowledge of carers services/issues/assessment.
* Skills and Knowledge working holistically with children and young people.
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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