South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Are you passionate about helping people understand mental health and learning skills to cope? Are you good at inspiring and up-skilling families and professionals to understand the mental health concerns young people face?
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic qualified Children's Wellbeing Practitioner to join our friendly and supportive Primary Intervention Team. You must have a relevant CWP/EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification and be registered and accredited with a professional body such as BPS or BABCP.
Your work will be the front line of CAMHS and therefore excellent communication, engagement, and de-escalation skills are essential. A commitment to improving service delivery and developing new ways of supporting evidence-based practice is required. As a member of the team, you will also contribute to the wider aims of the service through participation in service development/research.
Enquiries are strongly encouraged. Please contact Stacy Forrester, Team Manager within the Primary Intervention Teams (01977735865).
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
As an autonomous practitioner, you will be responsible for holding a caseload of children and young people, providing holistic assessments including risk assessment and planning whilst also contributing to the delivery of the short-term individualised treatment programmes.
Within the role, you will also work within CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA), being responsible for supporting families and professionals through providing specialist consultation on the phone. You will be involved in the assessment of referrals into the service and deciding the appropriate treatment approach for each referral.
You would be expected to offer support and supervision to identified members of the team.
As a team, we encourage practitioners to develop specialist interests to work closely with partnership agencies.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
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 vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
The post-holder will work within CAMHS providing assessment and interventions to individuals and groups.
The post-holder will work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
KEY RESULT AREAS
CLINICAL
Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
Assess and support Young People and Families with a common mental health problem in the self-management of their recovery.
Ability to deliver a range of therapeutic techniques which can be incorporated into one-to-one or group interventions.
Undertakes patient-centred interviews which identify areas where the person wishes to see change and/or recovery and makes an accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
* A current driving licence 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).
Qualifications
* Post Graduate Certificate for Low Intensity Therapies (IAPT) or equivalent qualification and Psychology degree or other related degree.
* Or
* Registered Mental Health Nurse/Social Worker/Occupational Therapist/or equivalent substantial CAMHS clinical experience.
* Post Graduate Mental Health Certificate or Mental Health Professional qualification (nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, etc).
Physical Attributes
* 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
* Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills.
* Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
* Applicants should demonstrate evidence of interpersonal skills to engage and develop working alliances with colleagues and patients.
* Demonstrates an understanding of mild to moderate mental health problems, including anxiety and depression, and how it may present in Primary Care.
* High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
* Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
* Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
* Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
* Received risk assessment training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
* Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work/employment and the impact it can have on mental health.
* Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
* Demonstrates an understanding of the need to use evidence-based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
Experience
* Substantial mental health working/working with Children/YP experience including voluntary work or expertise gained by experience of mental health problems.
* Demonstrates high standards in written communication.
* Able to write clear reports and letters.
* Experience of working in Primary Care Services.
* Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
* Ability to manage own caseload and time.
* Evidence of working in the local community.
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.
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
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