Mental Health Practitioner

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Castleford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The Core Team within Wakefield CAMHS is looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join our busy service. You will hold and manage your own caseload, conduct risk assessments and care planning, and deliver evidence-based interventions with young people and their families.

You will provide 1:1 and group work, respond to urgent assessments, work in a trauma‑informed way, and collaborate with schools, social care and other agencies.

Qualifications

• Significant and demonstrable experience of working with young people and their families.

Responsibilities

• Hold and manage a caseload independently.
• Provide thorough risk assessments and care planning.
• Provide therapeutic intervention through both 1:1 work and group work with young people in the locality.
• Provide urgent assessments when required.
• Work in a trauma-informed way.
• Work with other agencies; schools, social care etc.

Job description

As a Mental Health Practitioner in The Core Team within Wakefield CAMHS, the main duties would be as follows:

• Hold and manage a caseload independently.
• Provide thorough risk assessments and care planning.
• Provide therapeutic intervention through both 1:1 work and group work with young people in the locality.
• Provide urgent assessments when required.
• Work in a trauma-informed way.
• Work with other agencies; schools, social care etc.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

Are you passionate about helping young people with mental health problems? Are you looking for an opportunity to develop and share your skills and knowledge in mental health? If you answer yes to these questions, then Wakefield Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is the place for you!

We are looking for an experienced and confident Mental Health Practitioner who is able to work within a busy team. You must have significant and demonstrable experience of working with young people and their families, who can often present with a range of complex mental health needs. You will manage your own caseload, providing a range of high-quality care appropriate to the young persons needs which will include risk assessment and management, consultation and evidence-based interventions.

You must have a comprehensive range of skills and knowledge to deliver clinical aspects of the role in order to be able to provide a range of appropriate clinical interventions and assessment and be competent to do this work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines and a structured supervision framework.

Please get in touch with Katie Race (Team Manager) if you would like to know more about the role.

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 were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were 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.