CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

We are excited to advertise a new opportunity within Wakefield Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. The role is offering an in-reach service into The Croft, a 2-bedded therapeutic children's 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.

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 part of the Enhanced Outreach Team (EOT) which is a team that primarily works with Looked After Children.

The Croft is based in the Ackworth area of Wakefield and the role requires regular travel to this area.

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

1. Attend team meetings and development sessions.
2. Offer clinical supervision to colleagues.
3. Offer in-reach support to The Croft and support the young people that reside there and staff who are based there.
4. Offer therapeutic intervention to young people and the network.
5. Offering risk assessments and creating care plans which are individualized for the young person you are working with.
6. Completing assessments to deem appropriateness for The Croft.

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 the vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

To provide highly specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people and their families.

To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for other agencies and professionals.

To provide supervision and teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreed for the team leader.

To promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

Person Specification

Special Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner.
• Excellent negotiation skills, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.

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).

Personal Attributes

• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Commitment to multi-agency approach and working.
• Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
• Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive.
• Ability to make and lead decisions under pressure and crisis situations.
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
• Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
• Ability to cope calmly in a crisis.
• To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members.
• 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).
• To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent and respectful.

Experience

• Experience of delivering training to others.
• Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting.
• Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
• Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
• Multidisciplinary team working.
• Inter-agency liaison and consultation.
• Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health and safeguarding.
• Evidence of advanced clinical or therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
• Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice.
• Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people.
• Experience of community settings.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine.
• Post qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g. LD, LAC, eating disorder.
• Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
• A teaching and assessing qualification.
• Membership of professional body.
• Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
• Formal management or supervisory qualification.

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