Specialist Young People's Mental Health Practitioner

Job responsibilities

Offer advice to a range of services within the wider community who may be a first place of contact for a young person with emerging mental health problems or their family e.g. schools, colleges, police, etc.

To promote the MARS ethos in all interactions with professionals, service users, their family and the wider community

You will need to be an excellent communicator with good time keeping and a positive mental attitude. You must have a passion for recovery, to help and support young people with complex needs. You will be exposed to challenging situations therefore it is important that you are able to self-reflect on your actions and attitudes and your own mental well-being and be able to manage your stress levels seeking, support supervision on a regular basis.

To work in a collaborative client-centred manner with both young people and their families/carers

To manage caseloads and administration systems

To assess risks and complete dices risk management plans assessments for young people, to collaborate with young people completing my care and support care plans, reviewing these using the dialogue and questionnaires to identify goals.

To work jointly and collaboratively with YMM, Psychology, Homelessness Team, We Are With You and other voluntary agencies to ensure the maximum service flexibility in meeting the young persons' needs to support all staff members within the team approach for difficult to engage and complex service users

To ensure maintenance of acceptable standards of practice and regularly evaluate these within supervision

To attend mandatory training courses and ensure compliance with professional competencies as required by Navigo and regulatory body.

To ensure that your work conforms to national and local policies and the relevant codes of professional conduct

To participate in clinical supervision as per Navigo policy

Maintain accurate and timely records on contacts with service users, their families and other agencies on the Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

Plan and organise own clinical diary.

Organise information gained from service users, notes and appropriate others to include in formulation of service user presenting problems

Understand and closely follow the MARS Operational Policy and other Navigo Policies.

Be critical in your approach to information to help develop an understanding of the whys in a situation to support a holistic and compassionate approach to service users.

Communicate complex clinical and non-clinical information in a non-judgemental and understandable way to a variety of stakeholders, service users and other agencies.

Ensure that confidentiality is maintained within the boundaries of relevant codes of professional conduct and legal responsibilities

Be approachable and a great active listener so you encourage engagement of young people with yourself and the service.

Be self-aware of own communication style and adjust as needed for individual service user needs.

Attend meetings such as ward reviews, child protection meetings, case conferences providing written reports as needed for your allocated service users, standing in for the team members as needed and for allocated lead roles.

Use a variety of communication methods such as face to face, telephone, video conferencing or emails to stay in touch with staff, other agencies and service users.

Project confidence within your sphere of practice to inspire those around you including service users

To liaise with the multi-disciplinary team members to ensure appropriate use of the specialist service

To liaise closely with the appropriate community mental health service and primary care to ensure effective continuity of care for the service users and carers when transferred or discharged from the team.

Promote the organisations missions and values.

Comply with the terms and conditions of the contract of employment, Navigo's Statement of Values and code of conduct

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Be able to communicate complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of individuals
• Demonstrate good risk assessment skills
• Utilise objective measures competently
• Have good information technology skills
• Be able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances
• Be able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team
• Be able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
• Full UK driving license

Desirable

• Good presentation skills
• Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration with NMC, professional body.
• Evidence of continuing professional practice development
• Registered with Social Work England
• Occupational Therapist Qualification

Desirable

• DBT Qualification
• Family Interventions Qualification
• Trauma approach certificate
• Motivational Interviewing certificate
• Child & Adolescent Mental Health Degree/Masters

Experience

Essential

• Working in Mental Health Settings
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience working with young people
• Experience of undertaking assessments and reviews
• Experience of engaging young people on their level
• Experience of report writing , e.g child protection report

Desirable

• Skills to engage young people
• Knowledge of current financial support i.e housing, Personal Independent Payments and Universal Credit etc
• Experience of working in a youth setting
• Experience of working in substance team
• Experience of working in a care system
• Experience of facilitating group work

Knowledge

Essential

• Have Passion for working with young people and their families.
• Understand the impact that stigma has on people and be how to minimise its impact on service users and their family
• Good care planning knowledge
• Assessing and managing risk - completing risk assessments
• Gillicks competence
• Mental Health Act
• Mental Capacity Act
• Children's Care Act

Desirable

• Knowledge of transitions process
• Knowledge of child development / childhood Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Attachment theory
• Trauma informed practice
• Substance misuse and the impacts
• Neurodiversity
• Emerging Personality disorder traits

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.

UK Registration

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