CMHL Mental Health Practitioner or Senior Children's Wellbeing Practitioner
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Chichester, West Sussex | United Kingdom
Job description
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation 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
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria - 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 criteria - 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
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
Employer certification / accreditation badges 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.
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Salary
£35.39k - £42.62k per annum
