Job summary
Would you be able to use your knowledge and professional expertise to promote early intervention in children and young people's mental health, and to support the Transformation of the mental health provision within Suffolk?
Be flexible and available to support families, and train and consult with those professionals working with them?
Could you use your skills to enhance the lives of children and young people with emerging difficulties and work closely with colleagues in other agencies and within our service as well as independently in the community?
If so, we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Our Under 18s Wellbeing Team is looking to recruit to a full time Primary Mental Health Worker (PMHW) to work with children, young people, and their families, focusing early intervention in children's mental health. PMHWs offer consultation and training, runs groups for parents, presents webinars on children's mental health and undertakes assessments and direct work with children, young people and families . This is a varied and interesting role in which you will have support to develop your skills. PMHWs work alongside Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs), CBT therapists and Counsellors in the Service. The Under 18s Team works with children and young people up to aged 18. We can be flexible about recruiting part time applicants where this is appropriate for the service and suggested by your experience and skills. Our team is positive, innovative and developing.
About us
You will have an induction period which will involve accompanying your colleagues in their assessments and trainings to gain an expertise in early intervention mental health. You will also benefit from supervision and in house training to help with a CBT as well as a systemic approach and will also benefit from regular clinical and management supervision. Our team is proactive in supporting development opportunities for clinical skills and is focusing on enhancing our direct work skills with children.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits and in addition:
- Financial support with relocation cost
- Flexible working hours
- Up to247 hours holiday entitlement (subject to length of service)
- FREE physio service
- FREE Yoga and Pilates
- Cycle scheme tax-free bikes and accessories
- Childcare voucher scheme
- Support with revalidation
- Post graduate training opportunities
- We will pay for your initial DBS check (excluding the annual update service charge of £13)
Job description
Job responsibilities
You would provide consultation to professionals, training on child mental health, mental health and systemic assessments, and undertake short term therapeutic interventions with children, young people and families. You will have responsibility for proactively linking up with other professionals, supporting our colleagues in other agencies and in particular in schools in their work with children and young people and the effective management of a community caseload.
This post requires a core profession of: Nurse, Social Worker, Health Visitor, Occupational Therapist.
These roles will be based in Suffolk and you will be linked with a specific local area for whom you will be the named Primary Mental Health Worker. As we are a County wide service, for meetings and training you will need to travel.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interviews are to be confirmed. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Job description
Job responsibilities
You would provide consultation to professionals, training on child mental health, mental health and systemic assessments, and undertake short term therapeutic interventions with children, young people and families. You will have responsibility for proactively linking up with other professionals, supporting our colleagues in other agencies and in particular in schools in their work with children and young people and the effective management of a community caseload.
This post requires a core profession of: Nurse, Social Worker, Health Visitor, Occupational Therapist.
These roles will be based in Suffolk and you will be linked with a specific local area for whom you will be the named Primary Mental Health Worker. As we are a County wide service, for meetings and training you will need to travel.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interviews are to be confirmed. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification in nursing, social worker, therapy or equivalent
Desirable
- Additional therapeutic qualification
Experience
Essential
Desirable
- worked within a mental health team
- Consultation experience
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification in nursing, social worker, therapy or equivalent
Desirable
- Additional therapeutic qualification
Experience
Essential
Desirable
- worked within a mental health team
- Consultation experience
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.
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).
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).
