Attend team meetings and development sessions.
- Offer clinical supervision to colleagues.
- Offer in-reach support to The Croft and support the young people that reside there and staff who are based there.
- Offer therapeutic intervention to young people and the network.
- Offering risk assessments and creating care plans which are individualised for the young person you are working with.
Completing assessments to deem appropriateness for The Croft.
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WWe are excited to advertise a new opportunity within Wakefield Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) for a Senior Mental Health Practitoner. The role is offering an in-reach service into The Croft, a 2-bedded therapeutic childrens 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; can work on their relationship skills, which is key in making progress in their psychological development; can start to recover from developmental traumas and be provided with the opportunity to enjoy a level of settlement that might otherwise have been denied to them. We aim to break the cycle of placement break down the young people may be in.
You will be offering risk assessment and care planning to support young people who reside in The Croft, this will also support the staff members who are based there. You will also be responsible for conducting assessments to deem appropriateness of The Croft being a suitable residential home. You would be responsible for offering evidence-based therapeutic intervention to the young people residing in the residential home.
You would be part of the Enhanced Outreach Team (EOT) which is a team that primarily work with Looked After Children.
The Croft is based in the Ackworth area of Wakefield and the role requires regular travel to this area., 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 were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were 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.