Job summary
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We are seeking to recruit staff with a professional registration (Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy) to work within an exciting new service development within Pennine Care. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working with children and young people and working innovatively across pathways and traditional boundaries to ensure that young people get the right care, from the right clinician/team, at the right time and in the right place in order to improve their outcomes and the families/carers experience of mental health support.
This is an exciting opportunity for practitioners to work as a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner offering assessment, support, signposting and brief therapeautic intervention where appropriate to young people who required crisis support within our CYP crisis teams which include Home Treatment, Rapid Response and Enhanced Rapid Response-paediatric liaison within the Pennine Care footprint.
Main duties of the job
Pennine Care is currently engaged in a number of transformation schemes across the footprint. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan our CAMHS Care Hub has done extensive work around developing an exciting new Acute Care Pathway for children experiencing a crisis in their mental health. The aim within this pathway is to ensure that at the time of a young person experiencing a crisis our services can respond in the right way and at the right time with the right support to try and keep young people out of hospital and care for them in the community so they are able to experience the least amount of disruption to their lives and the lives of their families/carers. The other aspect of care and support within this pathway is to ensure that in situations where young people have been admitted to hospital that we are supporting them to be discharged in the safest and quickest way possible with the right resources in place in the community to prevent readmission.
The Acute Care Pathway Service Line is made up of 6 diverse teams offering different aspects of the care and treatment young people need from enhanced community crisis services such as Rapid Response Teams and Home Based Treatment Teams, assessment based services to ensure the young person is on the right pathway such as Greater Manchester Assessment Centre and Enhanced Rapid Response Paediatric Liaison Teams and at the other end specialists services such as Inpatient CAMHS settings and Community Eating Disorder Teams.
About us
Your Development and Career with us
Within Pennine Care we are committed to the development of our staff. We have many great training opportunities to continue to develop your career within the Acute Care Pathway including:
- AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment)
- Social Work and Nurse Apprenticeship
- DBT skills workshops
- STORM Skills Training (Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Mitigation)
- Risk formulation Training
Our services are being designed to work flexibly around the needs of the young person and as such this also allows us to extend the offer of flexibility in working across the pathway to our staff. This allows staff to be able to get a diverse profile of learning in many different environments allowing you to use and develop a whole range of skills in working with young people in a number of different settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant core professional qualification in mental health with professional body registration
- Educated to first degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent skills and abilities to work at this level.
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy, IT and keyboard skills
- Short courses and experience to post graduate diploma level
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in either community or inpatient settings which meet the core competencies of the post
- Experience of assessment, formulation and managing complex cases and risk within a mental health service
- An extensive range of clinical experience within the speciality or within a care pathway
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for patients' care and treatment and case management
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of supervision of less experienced practitioners within the MDT
- Effective skills to be able to communicate, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Experience of report writing
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and implementation of the use of outcome measures
- Research and development methodology
- Detailed knowledge of child safeguarding procedures, responsibilities and application in practice
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Have sound assessment skills and ability to articulate outcomes to CYP, families, other clinicians, practitioners and stakeholders
- Ability to provide management and clinical supervision to the workforce
- Demonstrable commitment to the focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Committed to continual quality and service improvement
- Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant core professional qualification in mental health with professional body registration
- Educated to first degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent skills and abilities to work at this level.
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy, IT and keyboard skills
- Short courses and experience to post graduate diploma level
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in either community or inpatient settings which meet the core competencies of the post
- Experience of assessment, formulation and managing complex cases and risk within a mental health service
- An extensive range of clinical experience within the speciality or within a care pathway
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for patients' care and treatment and case management
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of supervision of less experienced practitioners within the MDT
- Effective skills to be able to communicate, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Experience of report writing
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and implementation of the use of outcome measures
- Research and development methodology
- Detailed knowledge of child safeguarding procedures, responsibilities and application in practice
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Have sound assessment skills and ability to articulate outcomes to CYP, families, other clinicians, practitioners and stakeholders
- Ability to provide management and clinical supervision to the workforce
- Demonstrable commitment to the focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Committed to continual quality and service improvement
- Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
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).
