CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pay enhancements

Annual leave 27 days + bank holidays (

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Job summary

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Senior Nurse / Mental Health Practitioner for Bolton CAMHS. The role delivers evidence-based care to children and young people, working within the THRIVE framework and providing supervision to colleagues and partners.

It offers strong multidisciplinary collaboration in a busy community setting with partial remote options. The post requires CYPMH experience, excellent communication, and a commitment to Recovery principles and

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health assessments and interventions for children and young people.
• Ability to communicate complex information to families and professionals.
• Experience across diverse patient groups with varying clinical needs.
• Experience in teaching, training and supervision of students.
• Knowledge of THRIVE framework and CYPMH strategy.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, evidence-based, client-centred care to children and young people with mental health problems.
• Offer interventions, advice, consultancy and supervision to colleagues and external partner agencies in line with THRIVE.
• Help develop practices in line with national and local CYPMH initiatives.
• Demonstrate respect for service users and carers; uphold Recovery principles.

Skills

Mental health assessments and therapy

Communication skills (verbal and WRITT

Case management

Supervision of students

Specialist therapies knowledge

Therapy/training delivery

Professional consultation

Postgraduate qualification/education

Education

Postgraduate qualification

Job description

Do you want to be part of a rapidly developing service committed to improving the lives of Children, Young People and their families?

Bolton Community CAMHS are currently looking to recruit enthusiastic caring passionate clinicians to join our expanding community CAMHS team.

In a period of exciting change and development, we are looking for experienced registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers or Occupational Therapists to join our multidisciplinary team in Bolton, which includes offering band 5 to 6 progression opportunities.

We are a busy, friendly multi disciplinary service providing a range of treatment approaches to children and young people including individual, group and family work. We also work in close collaboration with partner agencies and with our children, young people and their families who are involved in all areas of the service such as recruitment of staff.

The successful candidate will have access to clinical supervision and individual line management to support your clinical work and personal well-being. They will also have access to the weekly multi-disciplinary team meeting

Partial remote working will be possible for this role, come and join a friendly professional team with great career development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The role will include:

As a Senior Nurse/ Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence based client centred care to children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.

The post holder will be expected to provide interventions, advice, consultancy and supervision to both colleagues and colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE.

As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.

The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.

The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognise the need to:

- Promote safe practices

- Value the aims of service users

- Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice

- Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change

About us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Job responsibilities

See attached detailed job description and person specification.

• Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

Person Specification

• Evidence of further studies or post graduate qualification

Experience

• Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
• Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems
• Experienced in and the ability to undertake case management and the supervision of students as required
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
• A level knowledge of theory and practice of specialist therapy / interventions
• Experience of delivering teaching, training.
• Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

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.

Address

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearPer annum per rota

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

437-8227396-A