Highly Specialist Mental Health Practitioner, Peterborough
Client: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Peterborough, United Kingdom
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Posted: 02.03.2025
Expiry Date: 16.04.2025
Job Description:
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Highly Specialist Mental Health Practitioner to join our new community Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (FCAMHS). Consideration will be given to applicants who want to work either full time or part time. The FCAMHS community team base is in Peterborough and there is also a second base in Cambridge. The service is regional, covering the East of England region (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire).
This dynamic service works in partnership with wider agencies to ensure integrated care provision across health, social care, education, and youth justice to optimise the outcomes for children/young people who present with high risk and/or concerning behaviours and where mental health and/or neurodevelopmental concerns are suspected.
Main duties of the job
* The job will involve a mixture of advice and consultation and direct assessment work.
* The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and will have the support of a Senior Leadership Team that includes a Consultant Psychologist.
* There will also be the opportunity to network and be professionally supported by others of the same discipline locally, regionally, and nationally.
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Job Responsibilities
* Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals working with and delivering interventions to children/young people with diagnosed or suspected mental health/neurodevelopmental/learning issues.
* Provide highly skilled assessment of mental health and risk and, on occasion, intervention to children/young people with diagnosed or suspected mental health/neurodevelopmental/learning issues.
* Conduct specialist structured forensic and neurodevelopmental assessments as per training and skill base.
* Advise and contribute to decisions/plans for high-risk children/young people who are vulnerable to and at risk of neglect, physical, sexual, or emotional harm.
* Support the safe and effective transitions for children/young people between the community and custodial/welfare secure settings to ensure the appropriate services are available and coordinated.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Registered RMN, Social Worker or equivalent.
* Continuing professional registration with associated governing body.
* Educated to degree level or equivalent plus have a relevant Masters degree (or be willing to work towards one).
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
* Advanced clinical skills in acute and complex mental health presentations and risk management.
* Experience of clinical supervision of others.
* Formal leadership skills and experience.
Desirable
* Experience of working with children/young people in an NHS setting.
* Experience of working with 'hard to reach' patient populations.
* Working knowledge or experience of criminal justice settings/secure settings.
Skills & Abilities
* Strong influencing and negotiation skills with experience of facilitating change by collaborating with stakeholders.
* Highly developed interpersonal skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders.
* Ability to work flexibly to the needs of the locality, service, patients, families, and carers.
Knowledge & Understanding
* Evidence of contribution to policy, protocols, and patient care pathway development.
* Experience of teaching, facilitating and formal training course planning/management.
* Evidence of involvement in innovative practice or service developments.
Other
* Ability to travel across Trust sites.
* Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
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