Single Point of Access (SPA) Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work as part of the Single Point of Access team across the partnership and have specific responsibilities as a SPA Senior Practitioner:

Clinical Practice

1.To develop and provide a high standard of care for all accessing CAMHS SPA.

2.To provide evidence based, first line telephone intervention.

3.To consider mental health risk assessment for all contacts made to SPA.

4.To assess the competing priorities and respond in an appropriate and timely way.

5.To demonstrate the flexibility to manage competing priorities.

6.To contribute to the triage of new requests for service, adhering to service criteria, alongside guidance from the Senior SPA Practitioner and SPA Clinical Team Manager.

7.To participate in clinical meetings, case conferences and professional meetings as required.

8.To compile written reports as required and to generate and maintain accurate treatment records.

9.To monitor and evaluate the service provision and support the provision of reports as required.

10. To complete assessments individually and jointly with primary care colleagues.

Management and Organisation

Partnership working:

10. To work closely with a range of external agencies including Local Authority, Community Health, Education and Voluntary Sector providers.

11. To work closely with a range of internal agencies including CAMHS Community in Reach, CAMHS Community and Specialist Mental Health Teams, and other specialist services within Sussex Partnership foundation Trust.

12. To provide advice, support and training to a full range of professionals to enable them to develop their knowledge and skills.

Communication:

13. To participate in meetings relevant to service provision.

14. To liaise regularly with the Senior SPA Practitioners and SPA Clinical Team Manager, concerning effective and safe service provision.

Administration Responsibilities:

15. To take responsibility for the safe provision, use, maintenance and storage of equipment and materials for self and others. To follow procedures concerning the management and ordering of materials and equipment.

16. To carry out administrative tasks in relation to service management as required

17. To participate in the process of establishing, monitoring and reviewing policies and procedures common to the profession and clinical services in the care group and Trust

Service Development and Training:

18. To take a leading role in the development of evidence-based resources.

19. To develop and provide a quality needs led service as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

20. To contribute to the promotion of SPA, to improve appropriate and timely access to service.

21. To support, supervise, appraise and co-ordinate the development of junior staff, including staff from other disciplines.

22. To work in accordance with professional body requirements.

Clinical Governance:

23. To collect and present statistical and performance related information as required.

24. To participate in clinical governance and audit activities as required by the service and Trust.

25. In conjunction with the Senior SPA Practitioners and SPA Clinical Team Manager, to establish and monitor professional and clinical standards and to act to raise standards where necessary.

26. To participate in and support research projects in the Trust, and to develop individual research initiatives as appropriate and agreed with the SPA Practitioners and SPA Clinical Team Manager.

27. To encourage and support staff in the process of research.

Personal Development

Training and Supervision:

28. To participate in regular supervision and the locally agreed appraisal process.

29. To ensure Trust mandatory training is kept up to date.

30. To keep clinical knowledge and skills up to date.

31. To attend training events and courses relevant to professional and service development, and to maintain a continuing professional development profile.

Education of others:

32. To contribute to the training and development of professional staff, volunteers and visitors as required.

33. To contribute to the training of students of all health and allied health professions and junior members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to child and adolescent mental health
• Evidence of clinical training in a field relevant to the post eg brief psychotherapy, solution focused approaches, cognitive behaviour therapy, motivational interviewing, or systemic work.

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• 2 years post qualifying experience. Demonstrating significant experience in mental health needs.
• Significant level of experience of working with children and families, including work with child mental health needs
• To be able to recognise in children and young people a wide range of clinical and behavioural presentations.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills to safeguard and protect children and young people's welfare in line with the Children Act 2004 requirements
• Demonstrate skills to assess risk using already established assessment tools
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills for systemic assessment of risk factors in the environment and skills to develop a range of strategies to address identified risk
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills for development of protocols with families and other staff / practitioners to manage risk
• Demonstrate knowledge, skills and attitude to promote safety for themselves and others
• Experience of mental health assessment and implementation of arrange of evidence based therapeutic interventions.
• Highly specialist knowledge of child and adolescent mental health

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Omega House

Eastleigh

SO50 5PB

Employer's website

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