Single Point of Access - Mental Health Practitioner

NHS; Edgware, Enfield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join the NHS as a Mental Health Practitioner within a supportive multidisciplinary team. This role involves assessing and supporting children and young people facing mental health challenges, ensuring they receive tailored care and support in their community.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in mental health with children and young people.
• Training in therapeutic intervention and risk assessment.
• Ability to manage own caseload and time.

Responsibilities

• Conduct holistic mental health assessments for children and young people.
• Develop care plans and risk management strategies.
• Facilitate multi-agency working relationships.

Skills

Risk assessment

Communication

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Registered Health or Social Care Professional

Recognised therapeutic qualification

Job description

Single Point of Access - Mental Health Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Nurses / Social Workers / Allied Health Professionals to join the CYP Single Point of Access as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a great location. The team is a very supportive, friendly and welcoming well-established multidisciplinary team.

We are looking for health or social care practitioners with knowledge and experience in mental health, working with children and families with moderate to severe complex needs and risk. This role will offer support for mental health; behavioural challenges and neurodevelopmental conditions, working alongside specialist clinicians, supporting Children & Young People (CYP) and families in line with the iTRHIVE framework. The postholder will establish strong links with education and social care throughout the range of interventions from early help to child protection.

Please note we are looking to recruit to roles across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have the responsibility for the provision of a responsive community outreach service for those children who need an integrated and flexible approach ensuring engagement and a needs led service. Due to the nature of this role, the post holder would be required to travel throughout the community, as well as working within the clinic. This role will also support young people transitioning to adult mental health services where required.

Working in collaboration with children, young people and families, the post holder will facilitate the development of care plans, risk assessment and meaningful risk management plans involving the support network in the community. Effectiveness of interventions will be monitored through the post holder facilitation completion of Routine Outcome Measures (ROMS).

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington.

Job responsibilities

To participate in a holistic mental health assessment of children and young people referred to the team to make a professional assessment and identify mental health problems early in their development.

To promote the emotional and mental health needs of children and young people, organise and disseminate complex facts and situations, interpret information and give informed judgments on possible options to care. To promote early identification and intervention for those children and young people in line with the CAMHS Service model and iTHRIVE framework. To be active in implementing a multi-agency working relationships that ensures integration of care. To plan and collaborate with other processionals and agencies within the locality in the development of a range of evidence based strategies and interventions to promote the psychological and emotional health of children and young people. Undertake case management and provide evidence-based interventions for those assessed to have mental health and neurodevelopmental concerns.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

• Registered Health or Social Care Professional, i.e. Nurses / Social Workers / Allied Health Professionals
• Training in therapeutic intervention
• Risk assessment training within scope of practice.
• Professional registration related to mental health / child health
• Recognised therapeutic qualification and accreditation (i.e. Systemic Therapy/ CBT/ PBS / Behavioural Therapy)

Skills/ Abilities

• Skills in risk assessment & management in relation to mental health and risky behaviour
• Skills in identifying risk in relation to safeguarding to children/young persons
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Ability to manage own caseload and time.
• Demonstrate high standards in written communication, including reports and letters to referrers.
• Good computer skills, including use of Microsoft applications, such as Word and Outlook
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing: complex; highly technical; and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

Experience/ Knowledge

• Experience of participating in multi-agency support for young people across the range of intervention from TAF to Child Protection
• Knowledge of child protection, Children Act issues and other relevant legislation.
• Post registration experience having successfully completed preceptorship or equivalent.
• Experience of carrying out and reviewing findings from routine outcome monitoring
• Ability to work under pressure, using personal and emotional resources in dealing with distressing circumstances.
• Knowledge of and experience of working in mental health, including with children and young people with serious mental health problems.
• Knowledge of the iTHRIVE framework, to improve services for children and young people's mental health.
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting and working with different professional disciplines involved in the provision of children and young people's health, education and social care
• Experience of having worked therapeutically with children and young people, with complex and traumatic early life experiences.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to travel throughout the community, preferably with access to personal transport.
• Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
• Commitment to the achievement of the highest possible standards of professional practice through co-working, consultations and the provision of advice, guidance and assistance.
• A high degree of self-awareness and ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback .
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.

Other Requirements

• Commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to quickly protect and remove self should be faced with verbal +/or physical aggression.
• Ability to keep calm in urgent and unpredictable situations.
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Bay Tree House, Enfield, EN2 6NZ --- Edgware Community Hospital - HA8 0AD

Operational Manager to Single Point of Access

£42,939 to £50,697 a yearPer annum including HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

455-NLFT-0157

Job locations

Bay Tree House, Enfield, EN2 6NZ --- Edgware Community Hospital - HA8 0AD