Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Service Delivery:

Work as a senior member of a multi-disciplinary team by providing containment and care to service users attending the Circle under the direct or indirect leadership of the Team Manager.

Contribute to the effective functioning of the Circle Team through attendance at relevant internal and external meetings, taking responsibilities within the service as appropriate and negotiating with the line manager.

Carry out mental health & risk assessments on children & young people in your care routinely and work to manage these situations effectively.

Design and implement the delivery of workshops and peer discussion groups as required.

Manage safeguarding situations; be aware of and adhere to safeguarding guidelines; take the lead in informing and sharing concerns with the wider Circle team and raising safeguarding alerts.

Observe, report and appropriately respond to any changes in the service users physical, mental health and behaviour and discuss them with the Circle team in consultation and as part of handover huddles.

Support other HFEH Mind Youth Service delivery when required and agreed by Team Manager.

Utilise therapeutic skills flexibly and effectively to ensure interventions can be creatively thought through and facilitated in the Circle or other appropriate settings.

Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional practice according to HF Mind policies and procedures

Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives as agreed and set out in appraisal.

Ensure adherence to organisational policies and procedures, NICE guidelines and evidence based-practice in the design and delivery of interventions.

Partnership Working:

Maintain and nurture a positive working relationship with partner agencies providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.

Take the lead establishing, developing and sustaining positive partnerships and relationships with other services.

Manage the escalation of identified referrals for CYP with more complex needs to appropriate services.

Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with patients, relatives and carers, where there may be barriers to understanding. Ability to deal effectively with patient or carer concerns, complaints and anxieties as they arise.

Work autonomously and participate in the delivery and development of patient centered, evidence-based care as appropriate, using a range of advanced skills and knowledge for patients with both diagnosed and undiagnosed conditions

Administration:

Communicate effectively with CYPs, their families, the MDT and wider professional networks. They will also clearly document assessments and subsequent decision-making.

Facilitate and participate in regular group and 1:1 supervision clinical and management supervision and participate in appraisal processes as required.

Attend handover meetings; case review meetings and/consultation; regular team and handover meetings as required.

Travel across boroughs within London (predominantly Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow) where required and agreed with supervisor or team manager for the purpose of Team representation, redeployment or specific service user needs.

Attend mandatory in-house and relevant external training opportunities, to support own ongoing development.

Facilitate staff supervision, appraisals and case consultation as required by the service.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Must have a minimum two years post qualification experience of working children and/young people in a mental health service as an HCP with relevant professional registration in one of the following:
• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) / Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse (RLDN) / Occupational Therapy (OT) / Social Work (SW) -HCPC accredited with MH & CAMHS work experience and an identified therapeutic treatment modality. / Art Therapy -HCPC accredited with MH & CAMHS work experience and an identified therapeutic treatment modality.
• Direct experience delivering interventions for CYP aged 5-18 with mild moderate mental health difficulties.
• Experience of routine outcome monitoring
• Experience of clinical risk assessment
• Understand child development and psychosocial influences.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary mental health team.
• Experience responding to safeguarding concerns for CYP and adults.
• Experience of engaging a range of stakeholders (young people, families, mental health providers, schools etc.)
• Excellent communication, organisational and time management skills.
• Extensive experience of using Microsoft Office package
• Experience in delivering programmes and workshops to groups.
• Working knowledge of child and adult safeguarding
• Experience of working with parents and carers.
• Working understanding of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and the ability to integrate into employment policies and practices.

Desirable

• Experience using CYP IAPTUS patient record system.
• Experience of working with and providing therapeutic interventions for CYPs presenting with difficulties in language and speech, motor skills, behaviour, memory, learning, or other neurological functions within the context of a formal Neuro Developmental Disorder diagnosis including ADHD.
• Experience in co-producing activities and campaigns with young people.

Qualifications

Essential

• Must hold a current formal qualification from an accredited body to deliver evidence-based interventions for CYP such as CBT/DBT/APT crisis training/Narrative Therapy.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing & Hounslow Mind

Address

Circle

44-46 South Ealing Road

London

W5 4QA

Employer's website

https://www.hfmind.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)