Safeguarding Team Mental Health Practitioner (RMN/Social Worker)

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to join our Family Safeguarding Service as a Mental Health Practitioner based predominantly in Skelmersdale but also covering some families in Chorley on a permanent full-time basis (flexible working options are available). There are also likely to be opportunities to work across the whole of our Lancashire-wide service.

We are looking for an organised, compassionate, and reflective individual who is passionate about working collaboratively with families to safeguard children. Are you an energetic, skilled mental health professional? Are you somebody that relishes change and service development? Do you see the opportunity to positively influence a person's emotional health and well-being as a privilege? If so, we want you to join us on our journey to be the best we can be for our families. The service is funded by Lancashire County Council to provide specialist assessment and treatment for parents of children open to the Family Safeguarding Service who have identified mental health difficulties which are impacting upon their ability to safeguard their children. The integrated service is positioned at the primary care level, offering preventative early intervention. The overall aim is to provide families with the right mental health support, at the right time, in the aim of keeping families together when it is safe to do so.

For further details / informal visits please contact us on the details provided.

Main duties of the job

We are a small, supportive mental health team made up of mental health practitioners (social worker or mental health nursing backgrounds) and psychologists, with a strong focus on reflective supervision and training. The successful candidate will also be part of the Multidisciplinary Team in Skelmersdale which is made up of social workers, child and family practitioners, substance misuse workers and domestic abuse workers (supporting families to overcome the "Toxic Trio" of substance use difficulties, domestic violence and mental ill-health). We follow the Hertfordshire Family Safeguarding Model which has been shown to be effective at reducing the number of children who are taken into care and safely keeping them with their families.

You will join a team of Mental Health Practitioners who work closely with Social Care colleagues including Social Workers, Child and Family Practitioners, Domestic Abuse Practitioners, Substance Misuse Practitioners and Probation to provide high quality safe and effective care for our service users. You will be provided with regular clinical supervision from one of the Clinical Psychologists in the team.

Key roles and responsibilities include:

Completing mental health needs and risk screening assessments

Signposting service users to relevant services or referrals to Clinical Psychologists within Family Safeguarding Service.

Consulting on mental health issues to teams within the Family Safeguarding Service.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CAPPs The Hawthorns

Chorley

PR7 3HN

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CAPPs The Hawthorns

Chorley

PR7 3HN

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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