Mental Health Practitioner or Senior Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Do you want to part of supporting professionals and young people to develop their approaches to mental health and emotional wellbeing?

If so,a role with The Community Mental Health Liaison Service (CMHL) might be what you're looking for.

We are welcoming applications for a full time Band 6 CMHL Mental Health Practitioner or a Band 6 Senior Children's Well-Being Practitioner to join our team and support professionals, families and young people who present with mild to moderate mental health difficulties in West Sussex. This provision will cover several areas, including Bognor, Chichester and Littlehampton.

The CMHL Service key functions:

1) To provide an early intervention and prevention service for professionals who are working with children and young people who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties

2) To support professionals to develop their skills in managing the emotional well-being of children and young people

3) To offer some direct work using an evidence based approach to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health concerns.

4) To be part of the broader West Sussex stepped care approach through group and individual interventions.

As the service covers all of West Sussex you will be required to travel across the county.

Main duties of the job

The Community Mental Health Liaison team comprises of a range of professionals including Mental Health Practitioners, Mental Health Nurses, Mental Health Social Workers and Occupational Therapists.

The service works with professionals and parents/carers offering consultation, psycho-education and some direct work to young people. There are opportunities in the service to undertake direct work with children, young people and their families through brief evidence-based therapeutic interventions. The service will be adopting a stepped care approach which will also offer group interventions linking in with the wider West Sussex services and pathways.

About us

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Date posted

22 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year Per Annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

354-CS-21436-B

Job locations

Chichester CAMHS

Stockbridge Road

Chichester

BN13 3EP

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will need a Professional qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Desirable Requirements

It would be an advantage if you have experience working with children and young people with mental health difficulties

*See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details*

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will need a Professional qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Desirable Requirements

It would be an advantage if you have experience working with children and young people with mental health difficulties

*See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Practitioner with current registration (mental health/LD/Adult/Social Work/OT), appropriate to the job role
Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Significant post qualifying experience (minimum two years) in the relevant care group
Experience of working alongside people with psychosis and complex health and social care problems in the designated care group
Experience of managing a caseload
Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of 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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Practitioner with current registration (mental health/LD/Adult/Social Work/OT), appropriate to the job role
Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Significant post qualifying experience (minimum two years) in the relevant care group
Experience of working alongside people with psychosis and complex health and social care problems in the designated care group
Experience of managing a caseload
Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of 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

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.