Job summary
Job Summary
We are seeking to recruit a Senior Mental Health Practitioner with a core 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.
We are looking for an individual with significant clinical and management experience, preferably within CAMHS to lead a team whilst also taking the lead of case management with high level complexity cases.
This is an exciting opportunity for practitioners to work as a Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner offering assessment, support, signposting and brief therapeutic intervention where appropriate to young people who required crisis support within our Children and Young People Crisis Team which includes Home Treatment, Rapid Response and Paediatric assessment pathways within the Pennine Care footprint.
Main duties of the job
You will work along side the other senior mental health practitioners in the team to be in a team leader role whilst also working clinically within the team including the duty role. Please see the attached Job description and person specification.
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Job description
Job responsibilities
Overview and not an extensive list. Please see full JD/PS attached
Staffing / Management To attend and chair team, clinical, business and other meetings as required. Presenting findings and service evaluation at conferences and elsewhere in relation to the crisis care pathway Management of staff To ensure that safe and effective pathways are in place to facilitate themovement of CYP through services, including the identification and reporting of deficits within service provision Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage stakeholders within all sectors, working on a variety of topics Proactively involve stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation and or other appropriate mechanisms
Clinical and Professional Deliver community-based assessment, de-escalation and therapeuticinterventions (including risk reduction interventions) when children and young people are presenting in crisis or require enhanced support in the community Deliver hospital-based assessments and interventions where a young person has been admitted to a paediatric ward to try and facilitate discharge with appropriate community care and support Work with young people to offer Early Supported Discharge from hospital-based settings including specialist inpatient mental health settings. Support families to offer containment and care during periods of high expressed emotion and crisis Work intensively with CYP and those who care for them under a variety of different crisis pathways and lengths of intervention under supervision of qualified mental health professionals Provide, or provide access to, a range of quality psychotherapeutic interventions in accordance with CYP assessed needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Overview and not an extensive list. Please see full JD/PS attached
Staffing / Management To attend and chair team, clinical, business and other meetings as required. Presenting findings and service evaluation at conferences and elsewhere in relation to the crisis care pathway Management of staff To ensure that safe and effective pathways are in place to facilitate themovement of CYP through services, including the identification and reporting of deficits within service provision Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage stakeholders within all sectors, working on a variety of topics Proactively involve stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation and or other appropriate mechanisms
Clinical and Professional Deliver community-based assessment, de-escalation and therapeuticinterventions (including risk reduction interventions) when children and young people are presenting in crisis or require enhanced support in the community Deliver hospital-based assessments and interventions where a young person has been admitted to a paediatric ward to try and facilitate discharge with appropriate community care and support Work with young people to offer Early Supported Discharge from hospital-based settings including specialist inpatient mental health settings. Support families to offer containment and care during periods of high expressed emotion and crisis Work intensively with CYP and those who care for them under a variety of different crisis pathways and lengths of intervention under supervision of qualified mental health professionals Provide, or provide access to, a range of quality psychotherapeutic interventions in accordance with CYP assessed needs.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- o Relevant Core Professional qualification in mental health or social care plus evidence of continued professional development in a CAMHS related area o Educated to masters level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- o Evidence of professional registration and continued professional development
- o Educated to masters level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Desirable
- Training in one or more additional specialist areas of practice including children and young people
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a senior clinician in clinical settings which meet the core competencies of the post
- Substantial experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Experience of managing complex cases within a mental health or social care service
- An extensive range of clinical experience within the speciality or within a care pathway
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' care and treatment.
- Experience of supervision of less experienced practitioners within the MDT
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
Desirable
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life span and presenting with the full range of severity.
- Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of using outcome measures to evaluate the impact of their clinical practice
- Experience of children and young people's inpatient mental health care
- Skills in service evaluations and service relevant research
Knowledge
Essential
- High level of working knowledge of the policy guidance and legislation
- Knowledge of crisis and risk management procedures
- Thorough knowledge of risk assessment and risk reduction strategies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health, including the Mental Health Act and issues of capacity and consent
- Detailed knowledge of child safeguarding procedures and responsibilities
- Sound knowledge of family interventions to boost resilience and improve
Desirable
- Knowledge in the practice of specialist therapies in Children and Young People within a stepped model of care
- Understanding of the acuity and demands of CYP crisis services
- An understanding of evidenced based psychological therapies from a range of modalities, including systemic working
skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills enabling good working relationships with others across professional boundaries
- Able to provide and receive highly complex sensitive information and negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult issues. Ability to present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of conflicting priorities and agendas.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own work load.
- Willingness to work flexibly including non-social hours
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own work load.
- Substantial experience delivering focused evidence based interventions such as CBT, Problem Solving, Family Interventions and Parenting
- Belief in the child centred, needs led, recovery focused values base of the service
- Willingness to participate in duty and on call rotas
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- o Relevant Core Professional qualification in mental health or social care plus evidence of continued professional development in a CAMHS related area o Educated to masters level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- o Evidence of professional registration and continued professional development
- o Educated to masters level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Desirable
- Training in one or more additional specialist areas of practice including children and young people
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a senior clinician in clinical settings which meet the core competencies of the post
- Substantial experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Experience of managing complex cases within a mental health or social care service
- An extensive range of clinical experience within the speciality or within a care pathway
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' care and treatment.
- Experience of supervision of less experienced practitioners within the MDT
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
Desirable
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life span and presenting with the full range of severity.
- Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of using outcome measures to evaluate the impact of their clinical practice
- Experience of children and young people's inpatient mental health care
- Skills in service evaluations and service relevant research
Knowledge
Essential
- High level of working knowledge of the policy guidance and legislation
- Knowledge of crisis and risk management procedures
- Thorough knowledge of risk assessment and risk reduction strategies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health, including the Mental Health Act and issues of capacity and consent
- Detailed knowledge of child safeguarding procedures and responsibilities
- Sound knowledge of family interventions to boost resilience and improve
Desirable
- Knowledge in the practice of specialist therapies in Children and Young People within a stepped model of care
- Understanding of the acuity and demands of CYP crisis services
- An understanding of evidenced based psychological therapies from a range of modalities, including systemic working
skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills enabling good working relationships with others across professional boundaries
- Able to provide and receive highly complex sensitive information and negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult issues. Ability to present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of conflicting priorities and agendas.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own work load.
- Willingness to work flexibly including non-social hours
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own work load.
- Substantial experience delivering focused evidence based interventions such as CBT, Problem Solving, Family Interventions and Parenting
- Belief in the child centred, needs led, recovery focused values base of the service
- Willingness to participate in duty and on call rotas
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
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
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).
