CYPMHS Practitioner

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); Borehamwood; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

CYP Practitioner position within HPFT in South Hertfordshire offers a full-time permanent role (37.5 hours) focused on delivering high-quality mental health care for children and young people. You will participate in referrals, assessments and delivery of evidence-based interventions, while coordinating care and contributing to safeguarding.

The role includes consultation and supervision of colleagues and students, with a strong MDT component.

Qualifications

• Must hold a professional qualification with relevant experience.
• Experience in risk management and safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
• Ability to deliver evidence-based interventions and coordinate care.
• Experience in supervising colleagues and contributing to multidisciplinary teams.
• Participation in supervision, appraisal and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions for service users.
• Deliver services through clinic-based and outreach models.
• Provide nursing consultation to colleagues and external agencies.
• Care coordinate a caseload delivering highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
• Lead nursing development and supervise nursing and other disciplines.
• Participate in supervision, appraisal and professional development.
• Chair or attend MDTs for clinical sign off.
• Collaborate with HPFT and external agencies to improve early identification and management.
• Lead service innovation and development to ensure safe, effective care.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Care coordination

Nursing supervision

MDT chairing

Education

Professional qualification

Job description

CYPMHS South Hertfordshire is seeking to recruit a highly skilled and motivated CYP Practitioner with an appropriate professional qualification and relevant experience to join our multi-disciplinary team.

This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week) offered on a permanent basis.

The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high-quality care, making a significant contribution to the clinical and nursing input within the team. Responsibilities will include active participation in the referral and allocation process, undertaking assessments and delivering evidence-based interventions, risk management, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, and care coordination. The role also involves contributing to case discussions and wider service meetings.

In addition, the post holder will provide consultation and supervision to colleagues, students, and professionals within partner services.

• To develop and provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions for service users, drawing on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
• To deliver timely, accessible services through both clinic based and outreach models.
• To provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues, external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Care coordinate a caseload of service users delivering highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
• Together with other team members to be responsible for developing nursing practice in the service including the supervision of both nursing colleagues and colleagues from other disciplines in the service.
• To actively participate in supervision, appraisal and professional development to enhance clinical skills, e.g. nurse prescribing.
• To chair/attend MDTs for all teams providing clinical sign off
• To work collaboratively and provide nursing consultation to other relevant professions within HPFT and external agencies to build capacity in terms of the early identification and physical and psychological management of disorders and/or disability.
• To take a leading role for service innovation and development, including projects with other junior staff to ensure delivery of safe effective nursing

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

Our Trust Values Are

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Luke Makumbe Job title: Operational Manager Email address: [e-mail]