Job Summary
Senior Mental Health Practitioner Complex Care, Wisbech
Salary: Up to £45,000 depending on experience
Hours: Full time
Location: Covering across Wisbech, Cambridgeshire/East Midlands
If you've got excellent assessment skills and strong therapeutic consultation experiences gained in a Residential setting or working with Looked After Children, we can offer you a rewarding role with a difference.
Main Duties of the Job
Supporting our teams across the residential homes, you'll spend most of your time out in the field, providing specialist assessments of children and young people within the residential setting. You will formulate and implement plans of therapeutic intervention and management of our children and young people's presentations to embed trauma-informed approaches and psychological understanding, in conjunction with the wider MDT.
About Us
The Cambian Group, part of the CareTech family of companies, is one of the largest providers of specialist Education and Care services for children and young people in the UK, delivering across Special Education Schools and Colleges, Residential Care Homes and a Therapeutic Fostering Service.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for a highly organised, enthusiastic, motivated, and forward-thinking Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly and highly skilled teams.
* Registered with the relevant professional (HCPC, NMC, SWE, BABCP)
* A higher-level qualification in a relevant subject such as therapeutic support, Social Work, Nursing or Psychotherapy.
* Experience of working with vulnerable young people in a therapeutic or counselling setting.
* Strong team player with excellent communication skills.
* Ability to plan and implement therapeutic and trauma-informed approaches.
* Understanding of social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
* Ability to work under pressure and remain calm in stressful situations.
* Ability to assess and mitigate risk of young people.
* Ability to work autonomously and make decisions while being part of a team.
* Full clean driving licence; this post may involve travelling throughout the county.
The successful candidate will have to meet the person specification in order to be offered this post.
Cambian is committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and safer recruitment reference checks. Cambian is an equal opportunities employer.
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