Job summary
23.25 hours per week.
The
Infant Mental Health Practitioner role sits within The Infant Mental Health
Pathway within The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Plymouth
working to a model of delivery that meets the needs of Infants, children, young
people and families in the city.
We
are looking to recruit an Infant Mental Health Practitioner band 6 WTE into our
Infant Mental Health Pathway to work with children 0-5 years and their families.
The direct work will cover the 0-5 years age range with consultations with
families & professionals, providing targeted therapeutic interventions and assessments
within the I-THRIVE framework. This will also include delivering bespoke
training to external services.
The
team is a community-based, innovative and needs-led response to infants, young children
and families across the full care pathway.
"Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility"
A professional registration is required for this role.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
To work as an Infant Mental health practitioner as part of CAMHS infant mental health pathway to deliver consultation, assessment & therapeutic interventions working with infants; young children from 0-5 years old and their parents/ carers within I-THRIVE model. Co-ordination and implementation of evidence-based targeted assessments & interventions in a timely manner using outcome measures. Maintain standards of care to highest level within available resources. To actively participate in line management junior members of staff. To provide consultation to parents with completing request for involvement through a self-referral process and sign-posting to other services. To liaise effectively with the other CAMHS pathways across the city. To develop and maintain relationships with providers, statutory and non-statutory. To maintain confidentiality in respect of the Infant & Families at all times. Communicate clearly with children, their families and all other health professionals. Actively participate in clinical governance & quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit. Deliver training to staff both within and external to Livewell when indicated and within scope of experience. To complete Livewell child protection supervisors training in line with the safeguarding policy and to be able to provide child protection supervision. Attend & contribute to the team meetings.
Please see job description
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Infant Mental Health Practitioner role sits within The Infant Mental Health Pathway within The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Plymouth working to a model of delivery that meets the needs of Infants, children, young people and families in the city.
We are looking to recruit an Infant Mental Health Practitioner into our Infant Mental Health Pathway to work with children 0-5 years and their families. The direct work will cover the 0-5 years’ age range with consultations with families & professionals and delivering training when required.
The team is a community-based, innovative and needs-led response to infants, young children and families across the full care pathway.
To work as an Infant Mental health practitioner to deliver consultation, assessment and interventions working with infants & young children from 0-5 years old and their parents/ carers.
Co-ordination and implementation of evidence-based targeted interventions incorporating outcome measures.
To co-ordinate and contribute to assessment to ensure that infants and young children access timely assessments and the appropriate targeted interventions.
Take a lead in representing CAMHS in multi-agency meetings and have oversight of mental health element of a multi-agency plan around a child.
To function as a member of the Infant Mental Health Pathway taking appropriate responsibility for the implementation of decisions made by the team.
Maintain standards of care to highest level within available resources.
To actively participate in line management with senior and junior members of staff.
To liaise effectively with the other CAMHS community teams across the city.
To develop and maintain relationships with providers, statutory and non-statutory.
To maintain confidentiality in respect of the Infant, Children and Families at all times.
Communicate clearly with children and young people, their families and all other health professional groups about their mental health problems.
Actively participate in clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit, essence of care or clinical policy development.
Deliver group work to patients and/or families of patients.
Deliver training to staff both within and external to Livewell when indicated and within scope of experience
- The post holder will be responsible for updating their own practice, knowledge and skills within their sphere of practice including Livewell Southwest mandatory training.
- Expert ability in receiving information, analysing and formulating professional judgments.
- The post holder will provide assessment and other interventions in the setting most appropriate to meet the children and young people’s needs.
- Ability to match children & infants need with available skills and resources.
- Take a lead in assessments and detailed observations in nursery settings and in the home. Formulate plans for appropriate short-term intervention or to sign post to other team members or external, relevant services.
- Making appropriate agreed referrals for longer-term treatment as appropriate.
- Take a lead role in clinical decision-making and collaborating with other team members in the provision of infant, children and families care packages.
- Ensure the on-going effective use of routine outcome monitoring in line with CYP IAPT.
- Take a lead role in the identification of risk and the formulation of risk management plans.
- Provide education to families to enhance their knowledge of infant mental health issues and management of this.
- Promote resilience and prevention of mental health issues.
- Maintain high standards of clinical care to infants; young children and their families.
- To liaise and work with other CAMHS teams to ensure the needs of children and met by the right team, on the right pathway at the right time.
- Provide support & supervision to new members of staff and students from a variety of disciplines.
Freedom to Act:
- The post holder will be individually accountable for their practice
in accordance with the NMC professional Code of Conduct or HCPC.
- The post holder will actively participate in line management
supervision with the Team Manager of the Team.
- The post holder will actively participate in clinical supervision in
accordance with Livewell Southwest policy.
- The post holder will actively participate in the Livewell Southwest
appraisal system.
- The post holder will carry out other duties commensurate with the
position as required.Mental Effort:
- Accurate manual and electronic record keeping whilst coping with
constant interruptions and distraction in the work place for example:
telephone calls and questions from colleagues.
- Constantly deal with sensitive, intricate and complex clinical and
service decisions whilst frequently being required to change from one
activity to another at a third party request, i.e. Telephone or staff
interruption and be able to respond in a positive and constructive manner
to emergency situations.
- Managing to extract information from people with communication
difficulties due to acute distressing
- mental health problems, often in
noisy or busy environments.
- Home visits to multi-occupied buildings, some without lifts.
- Frequent driving to different areas of the city.
- Sitting at a computer terminal for long periods of time.
- To be able to sit for prolonged periods of time whilst conducting
assessments
Emotional Effort:
- People who are very
difficult to engage within a therapeutic relationship.
- Ability to cope with
stress generated from the constant changing priorities within the Team.
- Ability to make clinical
decisions to meet the needs of infant, children and families in the community
setting.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Infant Mental Health Practitioner role sits within The Infant Mental Health Pathway within The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Plymouth working to a model of delivery that meets the needs of Infants, children, young people and families in the city.
We are looking to recruit an Infant Mental Health Practitioner into our Infant Mental Health Pathway to work with children 0-5 years and their families. The direct work will cover the 0-5 years’ age range with consultations with families & professionals and delivering training when required.
The team is a community-based, innovative and needs-led response to infants, young children and families across the full care pathway.
To work as an Infant Mental health practitioner to deliver consultation, assessment and interventions working with infants & young children from 0-5 years old and their parents/ carers.
Co-ordination and implementation of evidence-based targeted interventions incorporating outcome measures.
To co-ordinate and contribute to assessment to ensure that infants and young children access timely assessments and the appropriate targeted interventions.
Take a lead in representing CAMHS in multi-agency meetings and have oversight of mental health element of a multi-agency plan around a child.
To function as a member of the Infant Mental Health Pathway taking appropriate responsibility for the implementation of decisions made by the team.
Maintain standards of care to highest level within available resources.
To actively participate in line management with senior and junior members of staff.
To liaise effectively with the other CAMHS community teams across the city.
To develop and maintain relationships with providers, statutory and non-statutory.
To maintain confidentiality in respect of the Infant, Children and Families at all times.
Communicate clearly with children and young people, their families and all other health professional groups about their mental health problems.
Actively participate in clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit, essence of care or clinical policy development.
Deliver group work to patients and/or families of patients.
Deliver training to staff both within and external to Livewell when indicated and within scope of experience
- The post holder will be responsible for updating their own practice, knowledge and skills within their sphere of practice including Livewell Southwest mandatory training.
- Expert ability in receiving information, analysing and formulating professional judgments.
- The post holder will provide assessment and other interventions in the setting most appropriate to meet the children and young people’s needs.
- Ability to match children & infants need with available skills and resources.
- Take a lead in assessments and detailed observations in nursery settings and in the home. Formulate plans for appropriate short-term intervention or to sign post to other team members or external, relevant services.
- Making appropriate agreed referrals for longer-term treatment as appropriate.
- Take a lead role in clinical decision-making and collaborating with other team members in the provision of infant, children and families care packages.
- Ensure the on-going effective use of routine outcome monitoring in line with CYP IAPT.
- Take a lead role in the identification of risk and the formulation of risk management plans.
- Provide education to families to enhance their knowledge of infant mental health issues and management of this.
- Promote resilience and prevention of mental health issues.
- Maintain high standards of clinical care to infants; young children and their families.
- To liaise and work with other CAMHS teams to ensure the needs of children and met by the right team, on the right pathway at the right time.
- Provide support & supervision to new members of staff and students from a variety of disciplines.
Freedom to Act:
- The post holder will be individually accountable for their practice
in accordance with the NMC professional Code of Conduct or HCPC.
- The post holder will actively participate in line management
supervision with the Team Manager of the Team.
- The post holder will actively participate in clinical supervision in
accordance with Livewell Southwest policy.
- The post holder will actively participate in the Livewell Southwest
appraisal system.
- The post holder will carry out other duties commensurate with the
position as required.Mental Effort:
- Accurate manual and electronic record keeping whilst coping with
constant interruptions and distraction in the work place for example:
telephone calls and questions from colleagues.
- Constantly deal with sensitive, intricate and complex clinical and
service decisions whilst frequently being required to change from one
activity to another at a third party request, i.e. Telephone or staff
interruption and be able to respond in a positive and constructive manner
to emergency situations.
- Managing to extract information from people with communication
difficulties due to acute distressing
- mental health problems, often in
noisy or busy environments.
- Home visits to multi-occupied buildings, some without lifts.
- Frequent driving to different areas of the city.
- Sitting at a computer terminal for long periods of time.
- To be able to sit for prolonged periods of time whilst conducting
assessments
Emotional Effort:
- People who are very
difficult to engage within a therapeutic relationship.
- Ability to cope with
stress generated from the constant changing priorities within the Team.
- Ability to make clinical
decisions to meet the needs of infant, children and families in the community
setting.
Person Specification
Knowledge & skills
Essential
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and policies relating to infant & children's mental health.
- Knowledge of therapeutic principles within mental health.
- Knowledge of attachment and the impact of trauma
- Knowledge of infant development and how it can be impacted
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
- Commitment to anti-oppressive practice.
- Commitment to own learning and professional development.
Desirable
- IT skills and knowledge of various platforms used in health.
Qualifications
Essential
- Core qualification in nursing, social worker, OT or psychology with at least 3 years post-registration experience or as a band 6 working with infants & young children.
- Professional registration relevant to professional qualification i.e. NMC, HCPC
Desirable
- Post graduate training in working with infants, young children & families in mental health i.e. systemic practice, play therapy.
- Practice supervisor & assessor training to support student nurses.
Experience
Essential
- Post-registration experience of working within children's mental health.
- Professional registration relevant to professional qualification i.e. NMC
- Experience of working within a team and multi-agency working.
- Experience of providing mental health assessments, interventions and risk management.
- Experience of effective working with families of different cultural & ethnicity backgrounds.
- Experience of managing your own caseload
- Be able to prioritise tasks
Desirable
- Experience of delivering training.
Circumstances
Essential
- Ability to travel across Plymouth
- Ability to work flexibly (hours of work and duties) both as an individual and with other colleagues in LSW and with partner agencies.
- Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments where required.
Desirable
- Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job. It is unlikely that public transport will meet this requirement.
- Adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act.
Person Specification
Knowledge & skills
Essential
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and policies relating to infant & children's mental health.
- Knowledge of therapeutic principles within mental health.
- Knowledge of attachment and the impact of trauma
- Knowledge of infant development and how it can be impacted
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
- Commitment to anti-oppressive practice.
- Commitment to own learning and professional development.
Desirable
- IT skills and knowledge of various platforms used in health.
Qualifications
Essential
- Core qualification in nursing, social worker, OT or psychology with at least 3 years post-registration experience or as a band 6 working with infants & young children.
- Professional registration relevant to professional qualification i.e. NMC, HCPC
Desirable
- Post graduate training in working with infants, young children & families in mental health i.e. systemic practice, play therapy.
- Practice supervisor & assessor training to support student nurses.
Experience
Essential
- Post-registration experience of working within children's mental health.
- Professional registration relevant to professional qualification i.e. NMC
- Experience of working within a team and multi-agency working.
- Experience of providing mental health assessments, interventions and risk management.
- Experience of effective working with families of different cultural & ethnicity backgrounds.
- Experience of managing your own caseload
- Be able to prioritise tasks
Desirable
- Experience of delivering training.
Circumstances
Essential
- Ability to travel across Plymouth
- Ability to work flexibly (hours of work and duties) both as an individual and with other colleagues in LSW and with partner agencies.
- Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments where required.
Desirable
- Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job. It is unlikely that public transport will meet this requirement.
- Adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act.
Additional information
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
