Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

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Location: Exeter, EX2 7FW

Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00

Date posted: 14th March 2025

Closing date: 30th March 2025

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Job Description

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We have developed an innovative, integrated model of children's community services and are now looking to appoint enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

As a large community service, you will join a strong, enthusiastic, and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network, and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, which will be an asset to your daily work, career development, and support network.

An exciting opportunity has arisen as part of a joint working agreement with Devon County Council and Children & Family Health Devon. The Devon Therapeutic Well-being Service (TWS Devon) has been developed to provide additional consultation, advice, assessment and intervention for children receiving Child in Need Services (CiN) and children subject to a Child Protection Plan (CP).

The aim of this agreement will to enable Mental Health Practitioners to work alongside and co-locate with Children's Social Care teams providing an opportunity for joint, collaborative working that enables the skill set of each professional to be utilised to best meet the needs of the children and young people we serve.

Main Duties of the Job

The service will embed a flexible, multi-disciplinary, holistic approach to assess needs and develop solutions that improve outcomes for vulnerable children and young people identified as having mental health and emotional wellbeing concerns with a view to improve early detection, provide early intervention, prevent escalation and identify the appropriate responses and interventions needed.

If you would like any further information please contact Giselle Follette.

About Us

Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust. Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon. CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post-graduate training.

Our children and young people say that they would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make them feel safe and comfortable.

Job Responsibilities

The post holder will demonstrate courageous and critical thinking and is a caring, compassionate and committed experienced person who, acting within their professional boundaries, will be responsible for the provision of care to the child/young person.

They will demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment, treatment and evaluation of care and commit to demonstrating critical thinking in the safe clinical decision-making process. They will communicate and work collaboratively with the team to meet the needs of children, young people, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing leadership as required.

The post holder will work as a member of the multi-professional team by providing an enhanced clinical role to support children, young people in receiving high quality specialist treatment working to identify and proactively prevent further deterioration in their psychological well-being by delivering a range of therapeutic interventions.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-professional team providing a clinical service that is sensitive to the needs of the population. The team will provide comprehensive assessment in order to establish diagnosis and creation of an appropriate person-centred evidenced based treatment plan.

The Specialist Clinical Practitioner will contribute to the development and implementation of effective models of care to facilitate timely, clinician to clinician advice.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
• Experience of working with children and young people's mental health needs, families and parents/carers, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse.
• Experience of undertaking specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions for in the area of children's mental health, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments.
• Experience of safeguarding children and young people and ensuring the safety of children in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
• Experience that evidences an ability to tend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice.
• Experience of initiating, attending and contributing to multi-professional and inter-agency meetings.

• Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals.
• Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.

Qualifications

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to Masters level with a relevant core professional training (e.g. Nursing, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, etc).
• Training in an evidence-based therapeutic approach.
• Current registration with the appropriate professional body.

• Training in supervision and/or leadership skills.
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.

• Ability to travel across Devon.

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.

Employer Details

Employer name: Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address: Children & Family Health Devon, Bittern Road, Sowton Industrial Estate, Exeter, EX2 7FW

Employer's website: https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/

Contact Information

Giselle Follette

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Health Care Provider

Industries

Mental Health Care

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