Specialist Mental Health Practitioner – Therapeutic Wellbeing Service

Job title:

Specialist Mental Health Practitioner – Therapeutic Wellbeing Service

Company

NHS

Job description

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We have developed an innovative, integrated model of childrens community services and are now looking to appoint enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.As a large community service, you will join a strong, enthusiastic, and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network, and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, which will be an asset to your daily work, career development, and support network.An exciting opportunity has arisen as part of a joint working agreement with Devon County Council and Children & Family Health Devon. The Devon Therapeutic Well-being Service (TWS Devon) has been developed to provide additional consultation, advice, assessment and intervention for children receiving Child in Need Services (CiN) and children subject to a Child Protection Plan (CP).The aim of this agreement will to enable Mental Health Practitioners to work alongside and co-locate with Children’s Social Care teams providing an opportunity for joint, collaborative working that enables the skill set of each professional to be utilised to best meet the needs of the children and young people we serve.Main duties of the jobThe service will embed a flexible, multi-disciplinary, holistic approach to assess needs and develop solutions that improve outcomes for vulnerable children and young people identified as having mental health and emotional wellbeing concerns with a view to improve early detection, provide early intervention, prevent escalation and identify the appropriate responses and interventions needed.If you would like any further information please contact Giselle Follette cfhd.workforce@nhs.netAbout usSuccessful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust (https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here )Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health.We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post-graduate training.Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.Our children and young people sayWe would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.Date posted21 October 2024Pay schemeAgenda for changeBandBand 7Salary£46,148 to £52,809 a year pro rataContractPermanentWorking patternFull-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible workingReference numberC9369-24-0553-3Job locationsChildren & Family Health DevonBittern RoadSowton Industrial EstateExeterEX2 7FWJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesFull Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.The post holder will demonstrate courageous and critical thinking and is a caring,compassionate and committed experienced person who, acting within their professional boundaries, will be responsible for the provision of care to the child/young person.They will demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment, treatment and evaluation of care and commit to demonstrating critical thinking in the safe clinical decision-making process. They will communicate and work collaboratively with the team to meet the needs of children,young people, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures,and providing leadership as required.The post holder will work as a member of the multi professional team by providing an enhanced clinical role to support children, young people In receiving high quality specialist treatment working to identify and proactively prevent further deterioration in their psychological well-being by delivering a range of therapeutic interventions.The post holder will work as part of a multi professional team providing a clinical service that is sensitive to the needs of the population. The team will provide comprehensive assessment in order to establish diagnosis and creation of an appropriate person centred evidenced based treatment plan.The Specialist Clinical Practitioner will contribute to the development and implementation of effective models of care to facilitate timely, clinician to clinician advice. Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesFull Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.The post holder will demonstrate courageous and critical thinking and is a caring,compassionate and committed experienced person who, acting within their professional boundaries, will be responsible for the provision of care to the child/young person.They will demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment, treatment and evaluation of care and commit to demonstrating critical thinking in the safe clinical decision-making process. They will communicate and work collaboratively with the team to meet the needs of children,young people, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures,and providing leadership as required.The post holder will work as a member of the multi professional team by providing an enhanced clinical role to support children, young people In receiving high quality specialist treatment working to identify and proactively prevent further deterioration in their psychological well-being by delivering a range of therapeutic interventions.The post holder will work as part of a multi professional team providing a clinical service that is sensitive to the needs of the population. The team will provide comprehensive assessment in order to establish diagnosis and creation of an appropriate person centred evidenced based treatment plan.The Specialist Clinical Practitioner will contribute to the development and implementation of effective models of care to facilitate timely, clinician to clinician advice.Person SpecificationExperienceEssential

  • Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
  • Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
  • Experience of working with children and young peoples mental health needs, families and parents / carers, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
  • Experience of undertaking specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions for in the area of childrens mental health, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments
  • Experience of safeguarding children and young people and ensuring the safety of children in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
  • Experience that evidences an ability to tend to diversity and work in a way that promotes antidiscriminatory practice
  • Experience of initiating, attending and contributing to multi-professional and inter-agency meetings.

Desirable

  • Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals
  • Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.

QualificationsEssential

  • Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to Masters level with a relevant core professional training (e.g. Nursing, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, etc)
  • Training in an evidence-based therapeutic approach
  • Current registration with the appropriate professional body

Desirable

  • Training in supervision and / or leadership skills
  • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Knowledge, skills and abilitiesEssential

  • Ability to travel across Devon

Person SpecificationExperienceEssential

  • Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
  • Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
  • Experience of working with children and young peoples mental health needs, families and parents / carers, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
  • Experience of undertaking specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions for in the area of childrens mental health, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments
  • Experience of safeguarding children and young people and ensuring the safety of children in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
  • Experience that evidences an ability to tend to diversity and work in a way that promotes antidiscriminatory practice
  • Experience of initiating, attending and contributing to multi-professional and inter-agency meetings.

Desirable

  • Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals
  • Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.

QualificationsEssential

  • Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to Masters level with a relevant core professional training (e.g. Nursing, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, etc)
  • Training in an evidence-based therapeutic approach
  • Current registration with the appropriate professional body

Desirable

  • Training in supervision and / or leadership skills
  • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Knowledge, skills and abilitiesEssential

  • Ability to travel across Devon

Expected salary

£46148 – 52809 per year

Location

Exeter

Job date

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:03:44 GMT

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