Specialist Practitioner Mental Health

Humber Youth Action Group; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

STaRS is a high-intensity recovery service in Hull offering specialist assessment, intervention and care coordination for adults with complex mental health needs. We seek a compassionate Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team and help people achieve meaningful recovery.

You will inspire, motivate and develop others, confidently manage complex risk, and champion recovery-focused trauma-informed care.

Qualifications

• Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area.
• Experience mentoring pre-registration students.
• Understanding of policy, legislation and clinical practice standards.
• Ability to apply audit principles within a clinical area.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of adults with complex needs using evidence-based, person-centred approaches.
• Provide clinical and supervisory leadership to junior colleagues and students.
• Contribute to policy, service development and change within own area.
• Support service development and delivery in partnership with service users and agencies.

Skills

Inter-personal skills

Supervising & mentoring

Communication

Time management

Equality & diversity

Mobility between venues

Emotional regulation

Education

Post registration/graduate diploma

Job description

Job summary

Ready to be part of a service that transforms lives?

STaRS is a specialist, high-intensity recovery service supporting adults with complex and enduring mental health needs. We're looking for a compassionate, resilient, and dynamic Specialist Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team and help people achieve meaningful recovery.This is a rewarding opportunity to utilise and develop your leadership and clinical skills. You will provide specialist assessment, intervention and care co-ordination.

We're looking for someone who, Inspires, motivates, and develops others. Confidently managers complex risk, demand, and capacity Champions recovery-focused trauma-informed care. Has experience supporting adults with severe and enduring mental health needs. Builds strong partnerships across services and agencies.

What we offer is a supportive and experienced leadership network, opportunities for development, innovation, and career progression. A compassionate, reflective and collaborative team culture.

Join STaRS at Townend Court and help shape the future of specialist community mental health care.

Main duties of the job

• To manage a caseload of community adult clients with multiple and complex needs, using evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
• To support the team/clinical lead in providing clinical and supervisory leadership to junior colleagues, support workers and students within own area of responsibility, within the multidisciplinary team.
• To be jointly responsible with other colleagues with the implementation of policy, protocol, service/practice development and change within own are of responsibility.
• To continue to demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support/advice re service development and the delivery of care, in partnership with service users, careers, staff, managers and other agencies.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

You will be responsible for providing specialist assessment, intervention and care co-ordination as well as supporting theleadership team to develop both the service and workforce. For further information about this vacancy, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area, to demonstrate advanced level of practice.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers, and their application to clinical and service area, e.g., Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD or experiential learning at an advanced level e.g. Postgraduate/master's level
• Leadership training/qualification/experience
• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility.

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
• Evidence of development of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
• Previous community based experience or band 6 experience transferrable to community setting
• Experience of leading on complex care delivery
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held.
• Development of specialist/advanced level of practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice.
• Professional networking locally
• Ability to effectively Chair meetings.
• Working within a PBS framework

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring.
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills.
• Good time management skills
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
• Ability to effectively transport self between multiple addresses/venues on a daily basis including transporting, clients, equipment & clinical stock required for treatment
• Ability to manage own and other's emotions at times of crisis.

Desirable

• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures to effectively lead and manage others

Other eligibility / conditions

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).