Senior Practitioner

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Greater London is seeking a Senior Practitioner for their Learning Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder Keyworker Service. This role involves providing direct support to children with learning disabilities and autism, coordinating with various stakeholders, and ensuring service representation in critical meetings. Candidates should hold HCPC, NMC, BACP, or UKCP registration and have experience working with children and young people. The position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave Allowance

NHS Discounts

Flexible working hours

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• HCPC, NMC, BACP or UKCP registration is required.
• Experience in delivering intensive interventions to children and families.
• Must maintain appropriate service representation in various meetings.

Responsibilities

• Ensure service representation at meetings.
• Contribute and update on cases at local DSR meetings.
• Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Participate in the ongoing development of the service.

Skills

Experience with children with learning disabilities

Experience working with Autistic individuals

Ability to work alone with complex cohorts

High standards of case recording

Education

HCPC, NMC, BACP or UKCP registration

Job description

Job overview

You will be a Senior Practitioner within the Learning Disability and / or Autism Spectrum Disorder Keyworker Service for Barnet Enfield and Haringey : providing direct support to children with learning disabilities and / or autism with mental health needs and / or presenting with behaviours of concern.

The LD / ASD Keyworker Service provides intensive interventions for children and young people who are part of the LD & ASD cohort. The aim is to keep children, young people in the community, to prevent avoidable admissions to Tier 4 inpatient mental health services and 52-week residential placements, and to support young people in this cohort, to be discharged from Tier 4 services and be supported back into the community.

You will be liaising and coordinating with a range of teams and organisations across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey, including CAMHS providers, social care teams, Tier 4 providers, schools, and other community health providers.

The service is NCL wide but has two teams working across two localities :

1) Camden and Islington

2) Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• To ensure appropriate service representation and input to meetings, including Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETR’s) Care Programme Approach (CPA) meetings, as well as Child in Need (CIN) meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups, Looked-After Child (LAC) Reviews, and Education, Health and Care (EHC) Annual Reviews, as appropriate.
• To attend, contribute to, and update on, cases at the local Admission Avoidance Dynamic Support Register (DSR) meetings.
• To establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders including partners and parents to promote joint working and their involvement in the service.
• Involvement in the ongoing development of the service, including making suggestions for improvements and working to implement changes to the service as agreed with commissioners.
• To attend and provide information to the relevant panels and boards.
• To undertake other duties commensurate to the grade of the post.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) or UKCP.
• To support the service to deliver intensive time limited intervention ‘packages’ which achieve positive change for children and families based on shared objectives, which are regularly reviewed by the Team Around the Child.
• Experience of working with children / young people with learning disabilities and / or who are Autistic.
• To ensure appropriate service representation and input to meetings, including Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETR’s) Care Programme Approach (CPA) meetings, as well as Child in Need (CIN) meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups, Looked-After Child (LAC) Reviews, and Education, Health and Care (EHC) Annual Reviews, as appropriate.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work alone with complex cohort of children / young people and families
• To ensure high standards of case recording using the relevant information systems in order to capture all necessary inputs, outputs, and outcomes for young people and their families and carers.
• To work flexibly to suit the needs of children and young people with complex needs and their families / carers; this may include early starts, late finishes, as required.