CAMHS - Mental Health Practitioner

Pennine Care NHS FT; Stalybridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS FT in Tameside and Glossop CAMHS Springleigh Clinic is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner for a fixed-term 12-month role in the CAMHS access and assessment team. You will triage new referrals and assess young people, forming treatment plans within safeguarding legislation and local policies.

The role demands autonomous work within a multi-disciplinary team, strong risk assessment, and excellent communication.

Qualifications

• NMC nursing or social work registration required.
• Significant post-qualification experience in community mental health services.
• RMN or Social Work Pin is required.
• Ability to assess and formulate treatment plans and manage risk within CAMHS.

Responsibilities

• Undertake triage of new referrals and assessments in CAMHS access and assessment.
• Monitor and evaluate treatment within professional guidelines using routine outcome measures.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team and partner services to improve access to care.
• Build links with colleagues across teams and agencies to support young people.

Skills

Mental health assessments

Therapeutic interventions

Team collaboration

Caseload management

Independent working

Flexible clinical approach

Education

NMC nursing, social work registration

Post-qualification community mental health experience

RMN or Social Work Pin

Job description

Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate as we are about high quality care.

The successful candidate will need the ability to work autonomously within the context of a multi-disciplinary team approach & undertake specific work with young people and their families. Excellent assessment skills & the ability to formulate clinical decisions and management plans are essential, including assessment and management of risk.

This is a fixed term 12 months post for a mental health practitioner to work in the CAMHS access and assessment team, completing triage of new referrals and assessments of young people referred for the Community CAMHS team .

You will strive to achieve the best for every young person, show commitment to delivering evidence based practice and have the capability of making clinical decisions around complex and emotive issues, supported by knowledge of relevant legislation and safeguarding in relation to the client group. You will monitor and evaluate treatment offered to service users adhering to professional & Trust guidelines and using routine outcome measures related to service development and reporting. You must be an excellent communicator, flexible, self motivated and have a willingness to build links with colleagues across team and agencies.

Main duties of the job

This is a busy multi-disciplinary CAMHS team which includes nurses, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists. You will have the benefit of being co-located with partner services for children and families. A key focus of the service leadership team will be implementing transformation that ensures timely access to high quality care. Our vision is for our local community to be well equipped to support the young people of Tameside and Glossop to grow up with good emotional health and wellbeing. We work closely with our partners in education, children's services and the 3rd sector to achieve the recently developed ambitious Local Transformation Plan for CAMHS services. This plan provides us with the guide and resources to begin delivering our vision of having CAMHS workers available in new ways, and working closely with children's universal and targeted services in each of our locality areas.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. Were really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure were a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.

Please note, this role is within the teams access and assessment team and therefore confidence and skills within assessment and formulating treatment plans is essential.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• NMC nursing, social work, and has active registration with relevant regulatory body (NMC, SWE )
• Significant post qualification experience in community mental health services to post graduate diploma level
• RMN or Social Work Pin

Experience

• Professional involvement with the users of mental health services.
• Experience of case management of young people
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Experience of relating to young people in a group or community setting.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of mental health issues in young people
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and National policies in relation to young people
• Knowledge of therapeutic interventions with young people
• Understanding of Youth Offending services.
• Knowledge of drug and alcohol issues relating to young people

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to undertake appropriate mental health assessments
• Ability to carry out therapeutic interventions with this client group
• Ability to work well with a team
• Ability to manage a caseload effectively
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work creatively and flexibly in a clinical context

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.

Tameside and Glossop CAMHS Springleigh Clinic

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum, pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

311-HYM847-26-A

Job locations

Tameside and Glossop CAMHS Springleigh Clinic