Full Time - 37.5 Hours Per Week

Wakefield CAMHS are seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Mental Health Practitioner to take on a leadership role within the service. The Practitioner would work specifically with those children and young people that are in care and placed out of the Wakefield district.

The successful candidate will ensure that Wakefield children in care are offered the right mental health support whilst not residing in the Wakefield area. This is done by meeting with the young person and assessing their needs. The successful candidate will be attending the Complex Care Panel meeting to discuss children and young people that may need assessment. At times, this role will require you to travel to see children and young people nationwide.

You would be responsible for working collaboratively with out of area social care services, foster parents/carers and other organisations.

To apply for the role, you need to have a good understanding of child development, trauma informed care, risk assessing, types of therapeutic intervention and safeguarding.

This role will also have some leadership duties within The Croft a 2 bedded therapeutic childrens home, based in Wakefield.

Enquires are strongly encouraged. Please contact Team Manager, Charlie Hindle on 01977 735865.

Please be aware that you must meet all the essential qualification requirements of the role (as described in the person specification) in order to be considered for interview.

Main duties of the job

Liaising with out of area CAMHS.

Completing a desktop review of information or assessments already provided to consider the best intervention for the young person, if this did require to be commissioned (Therapeutic Needs Assessment).

Completing face to face therapeutic needs assessments.

Supporting placements to prevent placement breakdown.

Working /liaising/ reviewing with independent therapeutic services.

Maintain an overview of young people through Complex Care Panel.

Consulting, liaising, and networking with Independent Fostering Agencies- Supervising Social Workers.

Liaising and supporting with discharge planning

Supporting The Croft Childrens home.

Offering training to professionals and foster carers.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

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About us

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

To provide highly specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people and their families.

To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for other agencies and professionals.

To provider supervision and teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreed for the team leader.

To promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

Person Specification

Special Knowledge and Skills.

Essential

• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner.
• Excellent negotiation skills, and problem solving skills.
• Customer service orientation.
• Excellent record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
• IT skills.

Physical Attributes

Essential

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Commitment to multi-agency approach and working.
• Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
• Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive.
• Ability to make and lead decisions under pressure and crisis situations
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
• Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
• Ability to cope calmly in a crisis.
• To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members.
• A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
• To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent and respectful.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of delivering training to others.
• Extensive experience in identified portfolio requirements.
• Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting.
• Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
• Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
• Multidisciplinary team working.
• Inter agency liaison and consultation.
• Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health and safeguarding.
• Evidence of advanced clinical or therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
• Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice.
• Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people.

Desirable

• Experience of community settings.

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine.
• Post qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g. LD. LAC, eating disorder.
• Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
• A teaching and assessing qualification.
• Membership of professional body.

Desirable

• Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
• Masters Level qualification
• Formal management or supervisory qualification.

Employer details

Employer name

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Flemming Court

Whistler Drive

Castleford

WF10 5HW

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