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Job overview

Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an additional full time Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker  in our Access and Advice Team as a band 7 Senior Mental Health Clinician.  You will need to be registered with your governing body and have CAMHS or relevant Mental Health experience.

This team oversees the front door to our  Children and Young People's Services, triaging referrals, providing assessments, delivering treatment with both individual and group work being offered to our children, young people and their families.  This is an exciting opportunity to working closely with our CYPS  Team (formally CAMHS), as our Getting More Help Team, and  part of our i-THRIVE transformation work.

We are looking for a senior Mental Health Practitioner that shares our enthusiasm, passion and commitment to work alongside colleagues to deliver a good quality timely service to young people and families in Surrey, in collaboration with a strong supportive leadership team.

Main duties of the job

To evaluate and make decisions on suitability of new referrals.

Assess clients for suitability for interventions.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and evaluation of clients in line with the service.

Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties and develop carefully tailored interventions.

Attend multi-disciplinary/Team meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.

Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.

Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals  individuals,  voluntary agencies regarding service matters related to the practice and delivery of specific agreed therapeutic modalities and service provision. 

Demonstrate Clinical Leadership and lead clinical discussions and co-ordinate day to day clinical activity

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.

Home Working Contract Only unless the needs of service require office based duties(if required will be discussed and arranged) - Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer. 

We look forward to receiving your application!