Description
Job Title: Community Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
Job Overview:
To provide extended services to ensure an appropriate assessment of mental health needs for children and young people in crisis and requiring intensive support, ensuring the delivery of safe and effective practice as part of their wellbeing and recovery action plan.
You will work directly with children and young people with mental health needs and their families, conducting assessments (including risk management) and effective treatment and/or interventions, aiming to help them participate in normal family and community activities and achieve positive outcomes regarding their mental health needs. The role will also facilitate hospital admission avoidance and seamless transitions between services when necessary.
You will be expected to work flexibly within the team to support a crisis, brief intervention, and intensive support function. Depending on your skills and service needs, you will need to be available to external professionals and carers to offer advice, signposting, and guidance (especially in relation to urgency and risk) associated with children and young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The postholder will provide assessments and interventions for CYP as part of the multi-disciplinary team for those experiencing severe to moderate mental health conditions.
Candidates with a Mental Health Nursing, Children's Nursing, LD Nursing, or Social Work background are strongly encouraged to apply.
Main Duties:
1. Assessing needs and delivering safe and effective interventions for CYP and families in their communities and places of safety, working to avoid hospital admission and manage complex risks, in accordance with recognised clinical guidance.
2. Coordinating the care of CYP on caseload.
3. Working as part of the MDT and in an integrated way with wider teams and services to meet the needs of CYP & Families.
4. Offering advice, support, and supervision to other healthcare professionals.
Requirements:
1. A valid NMC/Social Work England/HCPC registration is required to apply for this role, along with evidence of necessary skills.
2. You will need to have access to a car, a valid driving license, and business insurance to travel across a wide geographical area.
Qualifications and Training:
1. First-level professional qualification in mental health, social work, nursing, AHP, or therapy, with demonstrable knowledge and continuous post-qualified experience/professional development.
2. Conforms to Professional governing body requirements.
3. Recognised appropriate qualification in mentoring/assessing/supporting students in placement.
4. Professional-specific additional qualifications, such as non-medical prescriber (NMP), Sensory Integration, Approved Mental Health Practitioner (AMHP).
5. Psychological intervention/Professional Qualification, including Motivational Interviewing techniques, CBT, CBTp, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT, Solution-focused interventions, Positive Behaviour Support Planning.
Experience:
1. Evidence of extensive post-registration experience working with those who may experience complex mental health needs in the community setting.
2. Experience of assessing, planning, coordinating, and managing care for those with mental health or neurodevelopmental needs.
3. Experience of assessing and managing complex needs, including risk, within a structured framework like CPA/Safeguarding Children frameworks.
4. Experience of effectively managing mental health-related issues/referrals/need for advice face-to-face and virtually, including telephone, during high demand and highly stressful/emotive situations.
5. Experience of making decisions autonomously while working with people and families in the community setting.
6. Experience of working in a crisis/intensive support model.
7. Experience in CAMHS, though lack of explicit CAMHS experience is not an excluding factor.
8. Experience of working with people who may have neurodevelopmental needs, such as Autism, ADHD, or Learning Disability.
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of Child Social Care and Mental Health legislation and safeguarding, relevant NICE guidance, and professional Code of Conduct.
2. Understanding of the principles of the Care Programme Approach and Community Care Act.
3. Knowledge of the wide range of statutory independent and third-sector service provision for CYP.
4. Skills in assessing, planning, and evaluating care for people with mental health-related difficulties, utilising recognised models of care.
5. Ability to complete and interpret Clinical Outcome measures like CORC.
6. Skilled in interventions to engage those who may otherwise not access services when in need. Knowledge of Children's Act, Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act, and DOLS.
7. Ability to support and supervise the performance, practice of less experienced and support level staff as appropriate.
8. Ability to work flexibly (as part of a rota) to meet the extended remit of the service (8am – 10pm, 365 days a year).
9. Proven ability to manage own caseload and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
10. Skills and knowledge to determine when and how to mobilise appropriate professionals in the event of a health, mental health, or social emergency.
11. Skilled in the assessment and formulation of clinical risk and developing and communicating appropriate risk management plans.
12. Supervisory skills and knowledge to provide clinical supervision.
13. Understanding of psychological formulation.
14. Skilled in utilising recognised profession-specific assessments.
Personal Attributes:
1. Leadership skills, ability to motivate and influence others.
2. Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour.
3. Possesses values and beliefs that enable others to deliver services effectively.
4. Passion for working with C&YP experiencing mental health difficulties.
5. Ability to move between trusts sites.
Employer Certification/Accreditation Badges:
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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