Senior Mental Health Practitioner (Lead Clinician)

South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching Nhs Foundation Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Lead Clinician to join the CAMHS ReACH Team (Crisis Team) in Wakefield on a fixed-term 12-month basis. The role combines clinical leadership with direct clinical work, maintaining a small caseload and providing supervision across the MDT.

You will support the Team Manager, uphold high clinical standards, drive quality improvements, and contribute to service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist skills and expertise in mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people and families.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and Trust policies.
• Conduct highly developed assessments of children and carers, plan interventions and document/share information with families and professionals.
• Perform initial assessments after acts of serious self-harm and attempted suicide in line with evidence-based practice.
• Carry out high-risk assessments and plan interventions following urgent mental health or psychiatric referrals.
• Deliver intensive interventions with young people and families, including group, individual work and systemic family interventions.
• Provide therapeutic care in highly emotive situations.
• Develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with children and carers in high-complexity cases.
• Deliver and devise complex care packages as part of the MDT.

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced, compassionate and dynamic clinician to join our CAMHS ReACH Team (Crisis Team) as a Lead Clinician.

This is a fixed term role of 12 months.

This is a really exciting opportunity for a senior mental health professional, who is passionate about delivering high-quality crisis care whilst supporting and developing a multi-disciplinary team.

The role is a combination of clinical leadership and direct clinical work, you would hold a small clinical caseload ensuring to remain connected to the frontline practice whilst providing leadership, supervision and clinical oversight across the service.

As a Lead Clinician, you will play a key role in ensuring that children, young people and families are experiencing a timely and effective service. You will be working closely with the Team Manager and wider leadership team to maintain high clinical standards, promote continuous improvement and support staff to deliver outstanding care.

You will also provide expert clinical advice, support decision making around risk and crisis management, and help shape service development. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will manage a small caseload of young people with complex presentations, offering assessment, intervention and liaison where required.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership within the team
• Hold a small complex clinical caseload
• Offer clinical supervision, mentoring and supporting members of the MDT
• Provide expert advice on assessment, formulation, risk management and crisis intervention
• Support the Team Manager with team delivery and development. Including quality improvements and decision making
• Promote evidence-based practice and ensure high standards of clinical governance
• Contribute to service development, audit and quality improvement initiatives
• Develop strong partnerships with other senior leaders in the team
• Support staff well-being, professional development and positive team culture

Location and working pattern

The service is based at Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield and you would be expected to be in base during your shifts. The service works 7 days a week, 8am-8pm and you would work on a shift basis.

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

If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch with Jen Wilson.

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.

We welcome applications from individuals who already have the right to work in the UK or are on a visa route that permits employment without sponsorship. Such applications will be considered alongside all others.

About us

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

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

Pay and details

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Job responsibilities

To provide highly specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people and their families.

• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility in accordance with the Trust Policies and procedures
• Highly developed skills in assessing the needs of children and their carers, planning interventions from assessment information, and clear documentation and sharing of information with families and relevant professionals
• Highly specialist initial assessments of young people following acts of serious self-harm and attempted suicide in line with evidence based practice
• Highly specialised risk assessments following referral for urgent mental health or psychiatric assessment, and planning relevant interventions
• Intensive interventions with young people and their families, including group and individual work and systemic family interventions
• Therapeutic care to emotionally demanding clients in highly emotive situations
• Developing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with children and carers in cases of high complexity
• Delivering and devising complex packages of care as part of the multi-disciplinary team