Mental Health Practitioner (12 month fixed term)

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Castleford; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an experienced Mental Health Practitioner for the Wakefield CAMHS Enhanced Outreach Team. You will hold a caseload of young people with complex mental health needs and work within a busy multidisciplinary team to deliver evidence-based interventions.

You will attend MDT meetings, liaise with Social Care Direct, conduct risk assessments, keep documentation up to date, and support families and carers.

Qualifications

• Experienced Mental Health Practitioner with registration.
• Experience working with children in care and their families.
• Ability to work autonomously within supervision framework.

Responsabilités

• Hold a caseload of young people with complex mental health concerns and provide therapeutic intervention.
• Attend MDT meetings.
• Liaise with other agencies, such as Social Care Direct, regularly.
• Ensure documentation and paperwork is up to date and accurate.
• Conduct risk assessments and support young people, carers/parents to manage identified risks.
• Offer therapeutic intervention to young people on your caseload.
• Support with the duty worker rota (within working hours).

Description du poste

Hold a caseload of young people with complex mental health concerns to provide therapeutic intervention.

• Attend MDT meetings.
• Liaise with other agencies, such as Social Care Direct, on a regular basis.
• Ensuring documentation and relevant paperwork is up to date and accurate.
• Conduct risk assessments and support young people, carers/parents to manage the risks identified.
• Offer therapeutic intervention to young people on your caseload.
• Support with the duty worker rota (within working hours)

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

While this role meets the eligibility requirements for Skilled Worker sponsorship, due to the short-term nature of the contract, the Trust will not be offering sponsorship for this post.

Are you passionate about helping young people with mental health problems? Do you have experience of working with Children in Care and their extended networks and are committed to getting the best outcomes for them? If you answer yes to these questions, then Wakefield CAMHS is for you!

We are looking for an experienced and confident Mental Health Practitioner in the Wakefield CAMHS Enhanced Outreach Team. You will work within a busy multidisciplinary team. You must have significant experience and be able to demonstrate your ability to work with young people and their families/carers/networks, particularly Children in Care, who can often present with a range of complex mental health needs. The teams criteria also covers forensic like behaviours including animal cruelty and fire setting.

You must have a range of skills and knowledge to deliver the clinical aspects of the role. You must be able to work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines and a structured supervision framework.

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.