Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 411-COM-25-6985778
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liverpool Fresh CAMHS - Alder Hey
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Practitioner
Band 5
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Mental Health Practitioner - Liverpool Fresh CAMHS
37.5hrs per week, permanent x 5 posts
The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary CAMHS team in Liverpool. They will work to engage children, young people and their families in the therapeutic process, supporting the assessment and implementation, under the supervision of an experienced CAMHS clinician, of complex mental health interventions for children and young people
The post holder will be expected to liaise with external agencies including health, education, social care and the voluntary sector and act as a named key worker to children, young people and families accessing Alder Hey CAMH services. Under supervision the post holder will carry out effective and evaluated assessments in line with their own knowledge base and the trust's policies and procedures.
The post holder will also be responsible for enabling effective and meaningful service user participation in the design and delivery of our services through individual and group engagement, facilitation of events/focus groups, supporting the wider CAMHS participation agenda and that of Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will have the ability to self-reflect and be aware to work within their job remit. They will also attend team meetings, regular supervision and will be willing to joint work cases with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job:
- Working as a member of an integrated multi-disciplinary team providing comprehensive assessment of children, young people and families. Planning, implementing and evaluating interventions to address identified needs.
- Acting as case manager for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems.
- Delivering evidence-based interventions in a group format alongside or under supervision of senior CAMHS practitioners.
- Monitoring risk and supporting children and young people who present with more severe problems to rapidly access assessment and intervention from senior CAMHS practitioners
- Promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.
- Adhering to Trust policies and procedures and the legislative framework in which children’s mental health care is delivered.
Working for our organisation
This is an exciting opportunity for a mental health engagement practitioner to join the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. The mental health engagement practitioner will be a member of the specialist, multi-disciplinary service and will be supported through supervision by a senior member of the team on a regular basis. The post holder will provide a range of appropriate, evidence based clinical interventions informed by assessed individual need.
Alder Hey is an equal opportunities employer, and our workforce is currently under-represented from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities and people with disabilities. We would welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as our ambition is that our workforce is fully reflective of the communities that we serve. Alder Hey is signed up to the disability confident scheme and we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the vacancy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities: An outline of the key duties and responsibilities of the post holder including key relationships and outcomes required.
Clinical and Client Care
1. Assess, plan and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
2. Work in partnership to support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
3. Support children, young people, their parents/carers and families to make informed choices about the interventions being offered.
4. Work in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes. Encourage collaboration and co-production when agreeing plans of care.
5. Undertake risk assessments and develop clear risk management plans in line with Trust policy and locally agreed procedures including safeguarding protocols of Education settings. Ensure accurate recording of risk and risk management plans.
6. Through locally agreed pathways escalate cases in which level of risk is beyond the scope of practice of the post holder.
7. Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant practitioner or service.
8. Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage one’s own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.
9. Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal educational benefit in discussion with senior leaders, or to provide direct assistance.
10. Keep coherent records of all clinical and whole school approach activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.
11. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
12. Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
13. Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
Training & Supervision
1. Engage in robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual post holder within the role, and working safely within that scope.
2. Prepare and present caseload information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the post holder, supervisor and service are delivered.
3. Respond to and evidence the implementation of improved practice because of supervisor feedback.
4. Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competencies and practice.
5. Disseminate research, audit and service evaluation findings through presentations and supervisory discussions.
6. Undertake continued professional development and maintain clinical standards through ongoing training as identified through CPD and PDR processes
Professional
1. Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional practice according to both the post holder's employer and professional body if applicable. Ensure appropriate adherence to any new recommendations or guidelines set by the relevant departments.
2. Ensure that confidentiality is always protected.
3. Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the postholder comes into contact with during their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.
4. Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with supervisor and senior colleagues on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development.
5. Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.
6. Keep all records up to date in relation to Continuous Professional Development and the requirements of the post and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.
7. Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives.
This post is subject to Agenda for Change. The wording of this job description and accompanying service specification may change; the key tasks and responsibilities will not.
Person specification
Education, training and experience.
Essential criteria
- Degree level qualification and/or equivalent experience in a child and family related field e.g. social work, youth and community work, nursing1. Qualified in core profession such as Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Mental Health Practitioner, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or creative therapies e.g. Art Therapy.
- OR - Recognised degree level broad based health & social care qualification which will require completion of The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Knowledge Skills and Attributes (KSA) http://www.babcp.com/Accreditation/CBP/KSA.aspx
- OR - Successful completion of a relevant HEE-commissioned course (for example children and young people’s wellbeing practitioner, education mental health practitioner, psychological wellbeing practitioner)
- Experience of working with children and young people and their families in either Health, Social or Education settings.
- Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
- Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.
- Experience of working with cultural diverse populations and adapting services to improve access.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health.
- Experience of delivering group interventions.
Knowledge, Skills & Professional
Essential criteria
- Understanding of how to work with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues and relevant legislation.
- Knowledge of child development
- Ability to carry out therapeutic mental health interventions with children, their families or parent/carers.
- Assessment and management of children and young people who present with risk.
- Awareness of cultural diversity and ability to incorporate this into care planning and delivery.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative, with reference to policies and procedures.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of audit processes
- Skilled at engaging and building relationships with children young people and their families
- Skilled at undertaking holistic assessments of emotional and mental health needs alongside coexisting physical and environmental factors that impact on wellbeing.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steve Gowland
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07890398107
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