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Mental Health Practitioner


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Location

Barnsley, South Yorkshire | United Kingdom


Job description

JOB SUMMARY The post-holder will: Provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs; Work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals; Work as part of CAMHS first on-call rota. Promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people. To provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a wide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision from a senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. KEY RESULT AREAS: 1 To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system. 2 To provide assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the most severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of settings to address need. This will include working with the CAPA model. 3 To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work. 4 To be committed to a quality approach for patient care. 5 The post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained effort in assessment of complex family issues. 6 To manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual need. 7 To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework. 8 To provide training, consultation and supervision to other service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff as required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and families. 9 To participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision. 10 To work as part of the CAMHS on call rota when required and to work in a flexible manner (24/7). 11 To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners. 12 To work collaboratively with all services to provide coherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and young people as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition and relevant consultation, training and support to universal services and targeted groups. 13 To use a range of Information Technology systems (including Rio) ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept securely and confidentially 14 To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical incidents are reported. 15 To comply with both clinical and corporate governance frameworks. 16 To support the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the development and monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for service improvement and redesign. 17 To actively promote user/carer involvement in all aspects of care planning/delivery whilst respecting the rights, capabilities and wishes of the individuals concerned. 18 To work in an innovative and child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous improvement and learning. 19 Apply Trust policies and procedures in instances of aggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations. 20 To maintain relevant professional registration 21 To identify and communicate any concerns through the relevant management processes. 22 To demonstrate continued practice development and engage in annual appraisal. VDU USER To record own data and to access email and internet Trust Values: The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time. The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values: Honest, open, transparent Respectful Person first and in the centre Improve and be outstanding Relevant today, ready for tomorrow Families and carers matter Safeguarding: Report any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy. Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training. Trust policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy: All staff employed by the Trust must comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training required for their role and commit to: ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise concerns; maintain confidentiality, in line with the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct; understand their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any information which they create, use or process in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Trust Data Protection Policy; comply with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol. Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors. Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire training annually; receive supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed; understand their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy; recognise, respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users, carers and the public. Contribute to a working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and diversity; ensure they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participatingin relevanttraining; comply with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision); demonstrate, through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement; abide by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action when codes of conduct are breached; work flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in People (IiP) Standards. adhere to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust grounds; being socially responsible by complying with measures that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact; Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents and near misses promptly; In addition to the Trusts own responsibilities under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance, for your safety, ALL staff (and contractors) are responsible for ensuring their work adheres to this Code in the delivery of safe patient care. This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the band as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments. For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.


Job tags

Full timeTemporary workFor contractorsImmediate startFlexible hoursRotating shift


Salary

£35.39k - £42.62k per annum

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