Job summary
Are you looking for change? Obtaining new skills, want to experience working in a different care setting?. ThenCATAT ( CAMHS Alternative to Admissions Team) have a exciting opportunity for you.
Would you like to work in a team that strives to support children and young people to recover in their community rather than admission to specialist adolescent psychiatric inpatient units. Providing individual needs led support alongside the MDT, to support, encourage positive futures and giving them the opportunities to be able to manage in adult life. Then CATAT might be for you!
CATAT are commissioned to support Children and Young People (CYP) under the age of 18 within the Norfolk and Suffolk locality. The aim of CATAT is to support the young persons' recovery in the least restrictive environment, if it is assessed that a young person requires admission to aid recovery CATAT will support discharge planning and to support them and their family in the community. The team will serve as a gateway in and out of Tier 4 (T4) provision so CYP will be able to access T4 provision / support without the need for admission. This is a significant change in both the clinical offer and culture.
CATAT aim to promote a preventative rather than a reactive approach to enable admission avoidance use of AMBIT based approaches and use of the THRIVE ethos aids and supports stabilisation as well as the system around the child
CATAT cover Norfolk and Suffolk localities
Main duties of the job
What will CATAT as a service offers
- Consultation/Advice
- Enhanced assessments
- Ensure that children & young people in Norfolk & Suffolk access care in the least restrictive environment possible.
- Case Formulation and ongoing case management to formulate the CYP care pathway.
- Face to face community-based visits
- Attending MDT, LEAPs, CETRs, MALMs, Linking in with inpatient and acute wards.
- Therapeutic interventions and approaches in relation to the expressed mental health needs of the CYP. Such as emotional regulation, DBT skills, AMBIT technics, risk management.
- Systemic approach to working with CYP, families, carers, and wider professional networks.
- Training and education for other services
- Promote joined up working and liaison with other involved services and teams across mental and physical health and children's services.
(The above list is not exhaustive, merely a starting point to show you what we do)
About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Your role as an Assistant Practitioner would involve:
- Carrying out interventions with YP, such as distress tolerance, risk reduction, DBT informed skills.
- Risk monitoring/reviews.
- Completing care plans and recovery plans.
- Assisting Senior Clinicians with assessments.
- Attending MDT meetings.
- Traveling around Suffolk and Norfolk independentlyto get to the young people
- Visiting Acute Hospitals.
(The above list is not exhaustive, merely a starting point)
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!
Interview dates are yet to be set; 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
Your role as an Assistant Practitioner would involve:
- Carrying out interventions with YP, such as distress tolerance, risk reduction, DBT informed skills.
- Risk monitoring/reviews.
- Completing care plans and recovery plans.
- Assisting Senior Clinicians with assessments.
- Attending MDT meetings.
- Traveling around Suffolk and Norfolk independentlyto get to the young people
- Visiting Acute Hospitals.
(The above list is not exhaustive, merely a starting point)
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!
Interview dates are yet to be set; 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
- Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care / Mental Health at L5 Apprenticeship in H&SC / Mental Health L5
- Care certificate or completed within first 12 weeks of start date, or relevant equivalent qualification
Experience
Essential
- Working with Service Users with mental health needs
Desirable
- Experience working with Children and Young People
- Working within the Community
Knowledge & Skill
Essential
- Risk Assessing
- Understanding of Mental Health Disorders
- Able to complete CPA paperwork
- Satisfactory verbal and written English language skills
Desirable
- Confident
- AMBIT and STORM trained
- knowledge of DBT informed practice
Other
Essential
- Travel Independently across Norfolk and Suffolk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care / Mental Health at L5 Apprenticeship in H&SC / Mental Health L5
- Care certificate or completed within first 12 weeks of start date, or relevant equivalent qualification
Experience
Essential
- Working with Service Users with mental health needs
Desirable
- Experience working with Children and Young People
- Working within the Community
Knowledge & Skill
Essential
- Risk Assessing
- Understanding of Mental Health Disorders
- Able to complete CPA paperwork
- Satisfactory verbal and written English language skills
Desirable
- Confident
- AMBIT and STORM trained
- knowledge of DBT informed practice
Other
Essential
- Travel Independently across Norfolk and Suffolk
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).
Additional information
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).
