Full Time - 37.5 Hours Per Week
We are excited to advertise a new opportunity within Wakefield Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. The role is offering an in-reach service into The Croft, a 2-bedded therapeutic children's residential home.
Our primary aim is to provide a safe, trauma-informed and therapeutic environment from which young people in our care can develop both physically and psychologically, work on their relationship skills, recover from developmental traumas, and enjoy a level of settlement that might otherwise have been denied to them.
You will be offering risk assessment and care planning to support young people who reside in The Croft, as well as supporting the staff members based there. You will also be responsible for conducting assessments to determine the appropriateness of The Croft as a suitable residential home.
You would be part of the Enhanced Outreach Team (EOT), which primarily works with Looked After Children. The Croft is based in the Ackworth area of Wakefield, and the role requires regular travel to this area.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
1. Attend team meetings and development sessions.
2. Offer clinical supervision to colleagues.
3. Provide in-reach support to The Croft and assist the young people and staff.
4. Offer therapeutic intervention to young people and their network.
5. Conduct risk assessments and create individualized care plans.
6. Complete assessments to determine appropriateness for The Croft.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
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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 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 description
Job responsibilities
This job description outlines the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.
The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.
To provide highly specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people, and their families.
To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for other agencies and professionals.
To provide supervision and teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreed for the team leader.
To promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people.
For the full job description, please see attached supporting documents.
Person Specification
Special Knowledge and Skills.
Essential
* Excellent verbal and communication skills.
* Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner.
* Excellent negotiation and problem-solving skills.
* Customer service orientation.
* Excellent record keeping and report writing skills, including care planning and risk assessments.
* IT skills.
Physical Attributes
Essential
* 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).
Personal Attributes
Essential
* Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
* Commitment to a multi-agency approach and working.
* Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
* Calm, confident, innovative, creative, and assertive.
* Ability to make and lead decisions in pressure and crisis situations.
* 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 licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants unable to drive due to a disability).
* To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent, and respectful.
Experience
Essential
* Experience of delivering training to others.
* Extensive experience in identified portfolio requirements.
* 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.
* Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
* Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
* Multidisciplinary team working.
* Inter-agency liaison and consultation.
* Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health, and safeguarding.
* Evidence of advanced clinical or therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
* Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice.
* Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people.
Desirable
* Experience of community settings.
Qualifications
Essential
* Relevant professional qualification, e.g., nursing or other professional allied to medicine.
* Post-qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g., LD, LAC, eating disorder.
* Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
* A teaching and assessing qualification.
* Membership of a professional body.
Desirable
* Postgraduate qualification in mental health (e.g., CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
* Masters Level qualification.
* Formal management or supervisory qualification.
Employer details
Employer name
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Unit 2, Flemming Court
Glasshoughton
WF10 5HW
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