Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
East Lancashire Child and Adolescent Service (ELCAS)
We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking, passionate, and motivated nurse or allied health professional to join our Children and Young People's Mental Health Practitioner team within the Responsive Assessment and Intensive Support (RAIS) service. This role is part of a service providing timely responses for a small but significant number of young people who may require a timely assessment and short-term intervention.
The service has been developed to meet the increasing number of young people presenting with complex needs who are seeking a rapid assessment in a paediatric ward, community, or other place of safety.
You will be a dynamic and forward-thinking practitioner prepared to meet the challenges of this new service element, delivering the highest quality of care for the children and young people in Pennine Lancashire.
An ability to assess, formulate, and intervene from a multi-theoretical perspective is essential, as is the ability to work with young people and families from ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds.
Significant experience in Child and Young People's Mental Health (CYPMH) or adult mental health is essential, while knowledge of IT systems would be advantageous. Supervision requirements are acknowledged.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Delivery of clinical services provided by the RAIS Team, which includes self-harm, ward-based, and community responses.
2. Ensuring the Team Coordinator is fully aware of significant day-to-day issues through effective and proactive communication.
3. Developing clinical management plans for a caseload of clients with complex needs, using CPA principles and evidence-based/client-centered approaches to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions delivered in our hospitals and in the community.
As a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner in the team, you will be involved in assessments and short-term intensive support. The team will work 7 days a week, covering shifts until 22:00. Therefore, shift and weekend working are part of the working practice.
About Us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services, including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services, including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside various partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria, and Sefton areas.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and well-being. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part-time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms their requests and discuss these options at the interview.
For more information, please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job Responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy, please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RMN/CQSW/DipSW/BSc.OT or other relevant professional qualification.
* Evidence of experience in Mental Health.
Knowledge
* Evidence of working with childhood, emotional, and psychological development; MDT working.
* Confident in dealing with people over the telephone and face-to-face.
* High standards of accuracy.
Experience
* Able to take on new ideas, skills, and knowledge.
* Able to manage conflicting priorities.
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.
Address
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