Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Cambian Group; Wisbech; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized care organization is seeking a Senior Mental Health Practitioner in Wisbech to provide therapeutic support and interventions for vulnerable young people. The ideal candidate will be registered with a relevant professional body and possess strong assessment and communication skills. This is a full-time position, offering a salary of up to £45,000. Candidates must have a clean driving license as travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Registered with the relevant professional (HCPC, NMC, SWE, BABCP).
• Experience with vulnerable young people in therapeutic settings.
• Ability to work under pressure and make decisions.

Responsibilities

• Assess and identify the needs of young people and staff.
• Provide specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions.
• Work collaboratively with the wider MDT.

Skills

Assessment skills

Therapeutic consultation experience

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Teamwork

Ability to assess and mitigate risk

Understanding of social, emotional and mental health difficulties

Non-judgemental empathetic attitude

Education

Higher-level qualification in therapeutic support, social work, nursing or psychotherapy

Job description

Overview

Senior Mental Health Practitioner – Complex Care, Wisbech

Salary Up to £45,000 depending on experience

Hours: Full time

Location: Covering across Wisbech

If you’ve got excellent assessment skills and strong therapeutic consultation experiences gained in a Residential setting or working with Looked After Children, we can offer you a rewarding role with a difference.

Our teams are fully committed to Cambian’s vision. They understand the challenges and rewards of working with our young people and know that every day they will achieve things that really matter.

This is no ordinary role. The pace is fast. There’s lots of variety. And you’ll need to be able to provide a therapeutic service to young people placed within community residential settings.

Offering lots of autonomy, your role will involve assessing and identifying the needs to our young people and staff by meeting them through consultation/training and reflective practice.

Supporting our teams across the residential homes, you’ll spend most of your time out in the field, providing specialist assessments of children and young people within the residential setting. So, you will formulate and implement plans of therapeutic intervention/management of our children and young people’s presentations to embed a trauma-informed approaches and psychological understanding the difficulties within the current evidence-based practice this will be in conjunction with the wider MDT.

About us, The Cambian Group, part of the CareTech family of companies, is one of the largest providers of specialist Education and Care services for children and young people in the UK, delivering across Special Education Schools and Colleges, Residential Care Homes and a Therapeutic Fostering Service.

Candidate profile

We are looking for a highly organised, enthusiastic, motivated, & forward thinking Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly and highly skilled teams.

• Registered with the relevant professional (HCPC, NMC, SWE, BABCP)
• A higher-level qualification in a relevant subject such as therapeutic support, Social work, nursing or psychotherapy.
• Experience of working with vulnerable young people in a therapeutic or counselling setting.
• Be a strong team player, with excellent communication skills
• Have excellent communication, organisational and time management skills
• Ability to plan and implement therapeutic and trauma-informed approaches.
• Understand the importance of reflective practice.
• An understanding of social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
• An understanding of the complex and multiple needs of vulnerable young people in both the school and home environment.
• The ability to work under pressure and remain calm in stressful and difficult situations.
• Ability to assess and mitigate risk of young people.
• Ability to work autonomously and make decisions and to work as part of a team.
• Ability to establish and maintain clear boundaries in respect of personal and professional responsibility.
• Demonstrate a high level of accuracy, attention to detail and able to maintain records throughout all services.
• Passionate about working with vulnerable at-risk young people
• Non-judgemental empathetic attitude.
• A willingness to undertake all training relevant to the role.
• Full clean driving licence. This post may involve travelling throughout the county.

The successful candidate will have to meet the person specification in order to be offered this post.

Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care.

All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and safer recruitment reference checks.

Cambian is an equal opportunities employer

Salary / Benefits:From: £45000 To: £45000 per year