Mindworks Hub Clinical Practitioner

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and social care provider in Guildford is seeking a dynamic Mental Health Practitioner to assess and treat children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties. This role involves conducting mental health assessments, implementing risk management plans, and delivering group interventions. Applicants must be professionally registered and have significant experience working with under 18s. Flexible working arrangements are supported.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Significant experience of working with under 18-year-olds.
• Ability to deliver timely mental health assessments and treatment interventions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct mental health assessments for children and young people.
• Implement risk management plans based on assessments.
• Deliver evidence-based group interventions.

Skills

Mental Health Assessment

Risk Management

Group Interventions

Supervision of Student Nurses

Education

Professional registration with NMC, HCPC, or SWE

Job description

Overview

Our CYPS Mindworks Hub-South is a highly supportive, friendly and innovative team covering South Surrey (Frimley and Guildford). The team focuses on Getting More Help and Risk Support to Children and Young People as part of our i-THRVE framework. You would join a strong multidisciplinary team offering assessments and interventions to children and young people experiencing psychological distress and emotional and mental health difficulties, while providing support to our Partner Agencies.

Responsibilities

• Mental Health Assessments
• Risk Assessment and implementation of risk management plans
• Delivering evidenced-based group interventions
• Use of outcome measures to evidence good practice
• Supervise and support student nurses
• Provide timely mental health assessments and treatment interventions for children and young people
• Provide support, advice and education to the wider network including the Hub Team
• Build knowledge and skills of staff within the alliance partnership in the care and treatment of children and young people
• Work individually and jointly within the Mindworks alliance to provide a specialist assessment and treatment service to children, adolescents and their families

Qualifications

We are seeking professionals who are professionally registered with NMC, HCPC or SWE and have significant experience of working with under 18-year-olds.

About the role and flexible working

Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioner? Are you passionate about delivering excellent care to our young people and their families? If yes, this is the perfect opportunity for you. As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

About the Trust and locality

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire. We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers. Surrey and Hampshire are beautiful counties lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.