Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term 12 Months)
- Hours
- Part time - 26.25 hours per week (Within core service hours Monday to Friday 9-5pm)
- Job ref
- 325-6078570-CYPS-C
- Employer
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire, Aldershot Centre for Health
- Town
- Aldershot
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 incl 5% fringe HCAS pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
B6 Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioner? Do you want to join our thriving Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), now known as Children and Young People's Services (CYPS) for a year on a fixed term contract, 26.25 hours per week? Are you passionate about delivering excellent care to our young people and their families? If yes, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!
Our CYPS Community Team are highly supportive, friendly and innovative. As part of our i-THRVE framework, this team is focused on Getting More Help. You would join a strong multidisciplinary team offering assessments and interventions to children and young people experiencing psychological distress as well as providing support for the Clinic Duty System. In addition, the role could provide opportunities within our neurodevelopment team if Autism Spectrum Condition/ADHD was a specialist interest of yours.
We are seeking those professionally registered with NMC, HCPC or SWE and have significant experience of working with under 18yr olds.
This is a part time role of 26.5 hours which can be worked over 3-4 days.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner who will carry continuing responsibility for a defined caseload of children and young people by undertaking the following duties:
- To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those children and young people presenting with higher levels of risk. To develop care plans alongside the child or young person.
- To offer specialist assessment and advice where required.
- To assess and manage on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the child, young person and carers. To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
- To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust Nursing and Mental Health Strategy.
- To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
- To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
- To act within the professional body’s code of conduct at all times.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey and Hampshire are beautiful counties lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Carry own caseload and undertake holistic assessments including risk of the child/adolescent /family needs, either individually or in identified complex cases jointly with another member of the CYPS Community Team.
- Provide short term treatment to CYP individually or Group based.
- To liaise with Social Care, Education and other appropriate agencies/professionals /carers to ensure best outcomes for CYP.
- Act as a lead professional for CYP following initial assessment. Developing appropriate plan of care.
- Offer support for Students on placement.
Please see the Job Description for further details of responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or diploma level qualification in relevant profession
- Registered professional with current registration, appropriate to the job role
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2-year post qualification experience of working in the community with young people with mental health difficulties and their families
- Experience and ability to undertake Mental Health Assessments, Risk Assessments and use outcome measures to evidence good practice
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Kerry Pilbeam
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07887504759
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