Mental Health Practitioner

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The Winchester and Test Valley CAMHS team are seeking a full time Mental Health Practitioner to join the already well established and supportive team. We invite applications at Band 6 level or as a developmental Band 5/6. We will provide opportunities and support you to achieve this in a timeframe that is right for you based on your prior experience and achievements of competencies.

The service supports people in their career journey offering development and training opportunities to enhance clinical practice. The service leadership team is supportive and encourages clinicians to prioritise their wellbeing in order to help maintain good work-life balance.

If you:

- enjoy being a part of a team

- are keen to expand and further develop your leadership skills

- wish to hone in on an area of practice which you are passionate about

- are creative and want to make a positive difference to the lives of children, young people and their families

We would be really delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The team is made up of a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) of innovative and dynamic clinicians who have worked hard to find new ways of providing clinical care to the young people they work with. You will work within a team with a passion for delivering high quality clinical assessment and interventions. Hampshire CAMHS has established care pathways which you will work across, including both supporting neurodevelopmental assessments and therapeutic work.

You will use your specialist knowledge and skills to undertake initial assessments, as well as other high-quality assessments and you will develop care plans alongside children, young people and their families. You will work with young people presenting with higher levels of risks and will be able to assess and manage their risk in collaboration with them and their families. You will manage duty, deliver one to one and groupwork interventions and support neurodevelopmental assessments, as well as mentoring students and supervising junior staff, and contributing to the overall development of the team and service.

You will support young people across a broad range of pathways and will liaise closely with clinicians from other teams including Single Point of Access, Early Help, Urgent Assessment and Home Treatment (i2i) and Eating Disorders.

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.

The transformation will happen in stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Date posted

18 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-SS-5293

Job locations

Advertiser House

24-32 London Street

Andover

Hampshire

SP10 2PE

Avalon House

Chesil Street

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 0HU

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the role, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Please ensure that you application considers all elements of the person specification.

We are happy to talk flexible working, all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the role, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Please ensure that you application considers all elements of the person specification.

We are happy to talk flexible working, all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

- Registered professional with current registration appropriate to the job role (Social Work, Occupational Therapist, Nurse, Creative Therapist)
- Diploma/Degree in relevant profession
- Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

- Completion of Mentorship Course

Experience

Essential

- Experience of working alongside people with complex mental health conditions
- Experience of supervising staff
- Experience of managing a caseload
- Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of mental health problems
- Experience of working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
- Experience of working within the CPA process
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Previous experience of working in the community
- Experience of contributing to the implementation of services.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

- Registered professional with current registration appropriate to the job role (Social Work, Occupational Therapist, Nurse, Creative Therapist)
- Diploma/Degree in relevant profession
- Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

- Completion of Mentorship Course

Experience

Essential

- Experience of working alongside people with complex mental health conditions
- Experience of supervising staff
- Experience of managing a caseload
- Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of mental health problems
- Experience of working consultatively with professionals
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
- Experience of working within the CPA process
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Previous experience of working in the community
- Experience of contributing to the implementation of services.

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.