Job summary
Employer heading
Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
East Sussex CAMHS Duty and Liaison Service
Mental Health Practitioner - Band 6
Based across East Sussex
The role is days of 7.5 hour shifts, 8am - 4pm, 9.00am -5.00pm or 12pm-8.00pm Monday to Friday and 10.00am to 6.00pm weekends and public holidays.
The CAMHS East Sussex Duty and Liaison Team is developing their Urgent Health Care service and as a result an exciting opportunity has arisen for an Urgent Care Practitioner, band 6. This role offers the perfect opportunity for career progression due to the skills that you will learn through this type of work. The role will be variable and exciting, sometimes challenging and there is a need for flexibility but it is always very interesting and rewarding. You will need to be motivated, forward thinking and have a strong commitment to providing high quality care to provide the best outcomes for young people. Excellent risk assessment and safety planning skills are essential to this role.
Main duties of the job
Primarily you will be supporting young people and their carers who are presenting with a mental health crisis via telephone, Attend Anywhere or offering face to face assessments. There will be an opportunity in this role to deliver therapeutic interventions alongside crisis care planning and management. You will be supporting young people who are waiting for interventions from tier 3 CAMHS as part of the duty role.
You will also be assessing young people who present to A&E in mental health crisis. You will assess and plan for discharge with the family or carer of the young person. You will be involved in MDT meetings around the young people who are unsafe for discharge, you will engage with other services within the trust to ensure the correct support is being provided upon discharge.
Working for our organisation
We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner, preferably with some previous experience of duty and A&E Liaison within a community based mental health team with excellent risk assessment and care planning skills. You should be willing to work autonomously as well as part of a team. The team thrives through being supportive to each other in an environment that can be changeable due to service capacity and demand. You will need to be flexible, be able to participate in the shift pattern of the team and have excellent communication skills. In return you will be well supported by experienced clinicians who will help you to develop and thrive in this environment. All your skills and training will be fully utilised and developed through clinical supervision and training
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support tier 3 CAMHS with young people who are awaiting allocation of a Lead Practitioner, therapeutic work or are waiting for an initial assessment with therapeutic interventions.
To respond to referrals from A&E and acute hospital wards and carry out comprehensive assessments including risk assessment and safety care planning. To ensure high quality communication and effective relationships within the Duty and Liaison Team and our general hospital colleagues, other agencies and carers.
To work with general hospital staff providing interventions and support to patients who are staying on acute hospital wards awaiting the allocation of appropriate mental health services.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered professional with current registration, appropriate to the job role. (Social work, Teachers, Occupational Therapists and Creative Therapists)
- Diploma/ Degree in relevant profession
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- post qualifying experience (preferably in the relevant care group)
- Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
- Experience of supervising staff
- 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
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
- Nicki Cassidy
- Job title
- Clinical Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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