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12 Month Fixed Term Contract to cover maternity leave
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within Bradford and District Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
You will be working in a community based multi-disciplinary team delivering a service to children, young people and their families in a supportive and lively team, where differences in training are respected and valued. You will have the opportunity to play a significant role in the leadership delivery of a modernised and comprehensive service.
The post requires enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals who are willing to make a real change. Do you have a ‘can do’ attitude and are you quality focused? Are you enthusiastic, motivated and ready for a challenge, possess excellent communication and organisational skills?
We welcome applications from a breadth of professions such as Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Social Work but please refer to the person specification.
Closing Date - 30th March 2025
Shortlisting - 31st March 2025
Interview- 8th April 2025
To provide a high standard of care through clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning to young people presenting in the Accident and Emergency Departments who are in mental health crisis.
Working within the community, providing a range of face-to-face brief solution focused interventions empowering service users, carers and their families in decision making and signpost to a range of health and social care resources for support.
This is an opportunity to work alongside the Intensive Intervention Team and alongside other CAMHS pathways to facilitate appropriate intervention and care for clients and their families.
Please note that we are currently working towards offering a 7-day service which will require shift work on a rota basis.
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
* We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
* We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
* We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
Benefits
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
* Increase mileage rates for > 3500
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
* A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
* Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Karen Gilbank
Job title: CAMHS Crisis & Enhanced Treatment Team Manager
Email address: karen.gilbank@bdct.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07736 460804
Lindsay Davies - 07747204999
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Contract
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries
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